Ord. 56. BORRAGINACE^. 



1. HELIOTROPIUM, Tourn. 



1. Heliotropium Curassavtcum, Linn. 



Hab. Valley of the Sacramento, California.— This almost cosmopolite 

 plant is more common, and occurs at a much higher latitude, on the 

 western coast than in the Atlantic States. A broad-leaved variety 

 was found by Douglas on the Columbia River. 



2. TIQUILIA, Pers. 



Galyx^ quinquepartitus. Corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis ; limbo 5-lobo, 

 lobis ovalibus obtusis ; fame nuda. Stamina 5, inclasa, medio iubi 

 corollce inserta. Stylus ultra medium bipartitus, ramis filiformibus; 

 stigmata capitellata. Nuculce 4, oblongce, glabrae, dorso convexw, intus 

 angulares, in/erne stylo adnatce, superne libera?. Cotyledones a basi 

 sursum profunde bipartita ! Herbce annuce dichotome ramosce, foliis 

 ovatis vel ellipticis ; floribus in glomerulis sessilibus axillaribus. 



Tiquilia, Pers. Syn. 1, p. 157. 



Coldenia, sect. 2, Tiquilia, DC. Prodr. 9, p. 558. 



1. Tiquilia brevifolia, Nutt. (Tab. 12, A.) 



Tiquilia brevifolia, Nutt. MSS. ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. p. 136. 

 Coldenia f Nuttallii, Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. 3, p. 296. 



