218 54. BORAGINACES. 
low. Fl. small, white. Cal. fleshy, usually tipped with red; 
sep. lanceolate, about as long as their tube. Anth. apiculate. 
Connecting membrane of the corona not adpressed but forming 
cuplike spaces between itself and the cor.; scales narrow.— 
Parasitical upon clover chiefly. A. VIIL—IX. Clover ia 
Order LIV. BORAGINACE#. 
Cal. inferior, 4—5-parted, persistent. Cor. hypogynous, re- 
gular. Stam. 5, inserted on the corolla. Ovary 4-parted, 4- 
seeded, ovules pendulous. Style simple. Fr. separating m 4 
nutlike or 2 bilocular portions. Seeds without albumen.—Figures 
of all the genera are in G. F. G. Gam. ii. 
Tribe I. CYNOGLOSSE4. Nuts 4, on the persistent base of 
the style.—Stam. included. 
1. AspeRuGo. Cal. 5-cleft with alternate smaller teeth, en- 
larged and compressed in fruit. Cor. funnelshaped with 
rounded scales im the throat. Filaments of stam. short. 
Nuts verrucose, compressed, attached by their narrow side, 
covered by the compressed calyx. 
(2. EcuinosperMum. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. salver- 
shaped with rounded scales in the throat. Stam. subsessile. 
Nuts triquetrous with muricated margins, attached by their 
inner edge. | 
3. CynocLossum. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. funnelshaped, ‘the 
mouth closed with prominent blunt scales. Filaments very 
short. Nuts rowndish-ovate depressed, muricated, attached 
by their inner edge. 
Tr. Il. ANCHUSEA. Nuts 4, on an hypogynous disk, with 
an excavated space surrounded by a tumid ring at their base. 
4. Boraco. Cal.in 5deep segments. Cor.rotate; tube very 
short; throat with short erect emarginate scales. Stam. 
exserted; filaments bifid, the mner fork bearing the anther ; 
anthers linear-lanceolate, connivent in the form of a cone. 
5. Ancuusa. Cal. 5-fid. Cor. funnelshaped with a straight 
tube; throat closed by prominent obtuse scales. Stam. in- 
cluded, subsessile. Nuts depressed. 
6. Lycopsis. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Tube of the cor. 
curved; limb oblique. Otherwise like Anchusa. 
7. Symepuytum. Cal. 5-cleft or 5-parted. Cor. cylindrical- 
bellshaped, throat closed by a prominent cone of connivent 
lanceolate-subulate scales. Stam. exserted from the tube but 
covered by the scales; filaments short. Nuts ovate. 
