240 54. BOEAeiNACiis. 



nutlike or 2 bilooular portions. Seeds without albumen. — L. 

 alternate. — Stip. 0. 



Tribe I. CYNOQLOSSEJE. Nuts 4, on tte persistent base of 

 the style. — Stam. included. 



1. AsPBBtTGO. Cal. 5-cleft with alternate smaller teeth, en- 

 larged and compressed in fruit. Cor. funnelshaped with 

 rounded scales in the throat. Filaments of stam. short. 

 Nuts tubercled, compressed, attached by their narrow side, 

 covered by the compressed calyx. 



2. CyNOGLossTJM. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. funnelshaped, the 

 mouth closed with prominent blunt scales. FUaments very 

 short. Nuts roundish-ovate, depressed, muricate, attached 

 by the upper part of their inner edge. 



Tr. II. ANCHUSEM. Nuts 4, on an hypogynous disk, with 

 an excavated space sun'ounded by a tumid ring at their 

 base. 



3. BoBAGO. Gal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. rotate ; tube 

 very short ; throat with short erect emarginate scales. 

 Stam. exserted ; filaments bifid, the inner fork bearing the 

 anther; anthers linear-lanceolate, connivent in the form 

 of a cone. 



4. Anchxjsa. Cal. 6-fid. Cor. funnelshaped with a ttraight 

 tube ; throat closed by prominent blunt scales. Stam. in- 

 cluded, suhsessile. Nuts depressed. 



6. Lycopsis. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Tube of the cor. 

 curved ; limb oblique. Otherwise like Anchusa. 



6. Symphytum. Cal. 5-cleft or 5-parted. Cor. cylindrical- 

 bellshaped, throat closed hy a prominent cone of connivent 

 lanceolate- subulate scales. Stam. exserted from the tube but 

 covered by the scales ; filaments short. Nuts ovate. 



Tr. III. LITHOSPERMEM Nuts 4, affixed to an hj-pogy- 

 nous disk, their base not excavated but attached by "a flat 

 or rather convex surface. 



7. EcHlUM. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. sub-beUshaped ; 

 throat dilated, naked; limb irregular. Stam. exserted; fila- 

 ments very long, unequal. Style bifid. Nuts wrinkled, at^ 

 tached by a flat triangular base. 



8. Pdlmonahia. Cal. tubular, 5-fid. Cor. funnelshaped, its 

 throat naked. Stam. included in the tube ; filaments very 



