122 FAM. 154, 155, 156. 



united, stigma simple or 2-lobed, and ovules solitary in 

 each cavity. 



Leaves sessile, prominently veined; corolla greenish-white or yellowish, 

 tubular, longer than the calyx, naked in the throat but with the 

 sinuses often inflexed; stamens included; ovary 4-parted; style 

 exserted; fruit consisting of 4 or 1-2 white, shiny nutlets, 



Onosmodium, False Cromwell 

 O. Virginianum. Leaves linear to oblong, 5-veined, numerous; scorpioid cymes 

 or racemes terminal, bracted; calyx bristly; corolla yellowish-green, some- 

 what funnelform; nutlets pitted. Sand. Spring. . 



154. Ehretiaceae, Ehretia Family. 



Shrubs or trees, sometimes herbs, with alternate, ex- 

 stipulate, simple leaves, and perfect regular flowers in 

 compound cymes; calyx 5- or fewer lobed; corolla 4-6 lobed; 

 stamens 4-6 adnate to the corolla-tube; ovary 1-4 celled; 

 styles 2 or 4; ovules 1 or 2 in each cell; fruit a drupe. 



Shrubs or trees with scabrous or villous foliage; flower-clusters terminal; 

 calyx 3-5 lobed, corolla campanulate to salverform, mostly 5- 

 lobed; stamens as many as the corolla-lobes; ovary 4-celled 

 in a disk; styles 4, unequally united by pairs; stigmas 4; drupe 

 with accrescent calyx, ------ Cordia (Sebesten) 



C (S.) Sebestena, Ceiger-tree. Evergreen shrub or small tree, with scabro- 

 pubescent ovate leaves, and large corymbose clusters of orange or flame- 

 colored flowers. Cultivated. 



155. Heliotropiaceae, Heliotrope Family. 



Mainly as preceding family, but style or stigma fur- 

 nished with a glandular ring, surmounted by a 2-lobed 

 appendage. 



Heliotropium Curassavicum, Heliotrope. Prostrate fleshy herb; leaves alter- 

 nate or nearly opposite, glaucous, lanceolate or linear; flowers small, white with yel- 

 low or bluish center; anthers acuminate; fruit consisting of four 1-seeded nutlets. 

 Saline marshes. Summer. (Also found on the shore of Lake Monroe, near Enter- 

 prise). 



Cultivated Heliotropes are H. Peruvianum and H. corymbosum, or hybrids of 

 both. 



156. Verbenaceae, Vervain Family. 



Herbs or shrubs with 4-angled stems and exstipulate, 

 simple leaves, alternate, opposite or clustered; calyx often 

 bracted, 4-5 cleft; corolla 4-5 lobed, sometimes bilabiate; 

 stamens 2 or 4, didynamous, adnate to the corolla-tube; 

 ovary superior, 2-4 celled, and 1 or 2 ovules in each cell; 

 style 1 with an entire or 2- or 4-lobed stigma; fruit drupe- 





