BORAGINADS. 475, 
Small trees orshrubs, with opposite leaves ; minute panicled flowers ; 
calyx with four sepals ; corolla as cleft; stamens four ; o> decerl ad 
one-celled. Found chiefly in Indi Aiea mags 
Trees, shrubs, or herbaceous plants, harshly pubesc beak 
leaves; solid four-celled ovary ; terminal style ; ath velar 
se ig fruit. Natives of tropical countries and the South of 
CCL. Salvadoracee. 
CCLI. Ehretiacez. 
herbaceous or sufrutuose mga with alternate non- yr 
late leaves ; showy pesenpe they flow 3 frui 
enclosed in a permanent calyx 
Herbs, shrubs or trees, with —— —— prvi often hairy ; 
flowers “hermap hrodite; cir ; Bong ur-parted, 
acinar yponyaoes: 2 stame ne ga une in’ a ef ; stigma 
e 
CCLII. Nolanacez. 
CCLII. Boraginacez. 
Herbaceous stemless plants, ea Biers me leaves; flowers regular 
and s fruit,a solitary nut. A single genus of CCLIV, Brunoniacez. 
New Holland ees the — 
a plan -shrubs, with square stems ; opposite non- 
Stipulate leaves, rohit pnts age ae for aromatic oil; calyx iaces. 7 
sa a corolla monopetalous — four, inserted upon the Gent tae 
rola; irregular uns fio 
Tre * F r shrubs, sometimes herdianodiad plants, with opposite Rage 
stipu akg eaves ; Sowers ri ian in opposite corymbs or S 
alternate eS sometimes in 4m heads ; calyx tubular; corolla octal laa cegeeccn 
hypogynous; fruit a nut, sometim 
Shrubs, with simple non seas eaves ; ‘Sette ae a Myoporacess. 
metrical ; corelis monopetalous ; pete ns four ; fruit a dru) COLI. Myopa 
Herbaceous plants or branching shrubs, with alternate leaves; spa- ) ‘i 
— us calyx; corolla tubular, hypogynous ; stamens four, didyna- s CCLVIIL. Selaginacez. 
The Boraginacex are mostly natives of temperate regions. 
These plants are abundant in Southern Europe; their properties 
are unimportant. The Bugloss and the pretty Forget-me-not 
(Myosotis palustris) being, perhaps, the best known species 
The common Comfrey (Symphitum officinale), Fig. 432, which 
we will take for a type of this family, isa herb angular, rough, 
heavy, with simple alternate leaves, without stipules; the very 
ample radicle leaves are ovately-pointed, or lengthily petiolate ; 
the cauline leaves decurrent lanceolate, with rough and pubescent 
limbs. The inclining flowers, disposed in cymes, are very large, 
white, yellow, or violet coloured; they are regular and hermaphro- 
ite. The calyx has five lanceolated sepals. The corolla is 
tubular, with campanulate urceolated limbs, and short triangular 
ta reflex on the outside. Underneath these five lobes the neck 
is furnished with five lanceolated scales, forming a flat white 
cone, the sides of which are filled with transparent crystalline 
papille. Five stamens are inserted upon the tube of the corolla, 
and alternate with its lobes. The fruit is composed of four 
achenw. The Comfrey is common in England, growing in 
meadows, near rivers and ditches. 
