54. BOEAGINACE^. 
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Order LIT. BOEAGINACE^. 
Cal. inferior, 4— -5-parted, persistent. Cor. hj'pogjTious, usu- 
ally regular. Stara. 5, inserted on the corolla. Ovary 4-pai ted, 
4-seeded ; ovules pendulous. Style simple, from near the base 
between the lobes of the ovaiy. Fr. sepai-ating in 4 nutlike or 
2 bilocular portions. Seeds without albumen. — Figures of all 
the genera are in G. F. G. Gam. ii. 
Tribe I. CYNOGLOSSEJE. Nuts 4, on the persistent base of 
the style. — Stara. included. 
1. AspERFGO. Cal. 5-cleft with alternate smaller teeth, en- 
larged and compressed in fruit. Cor. funnelshaped with 
rounded scales in the tliroat. Filaments of stam. short. 
Nuts tubercled, compressed, attached by their narrow side, 
covered by the compressed calyx. 
[2. EcHTNOSPERMTTM. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. salver- 
shaped with roimded scales in the throat. Stam. subsessile. 
NuU triquetrous with muricate mwffins, attached throughout 
their inner edge.] 
3. Cynoglossum. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. funnelshaped, the 
mouth closed with prominent blunt scales. Filaments very 
short. Nuts roumlish-ovate, depressed, muricate, attached 
by the upper part of their inner edge. 
Tr. II. ANCHUSEJE. Nuts 4, on an hypogynous disk, with 
an excavated space surrounded by a tumid ring at their base. 
4. BoRAGO. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. rotate ; tube very 
short; throat with short erect emarginate scales. Stam. 
exserted ; filaments bifid, the innei' forlc bearing the anther ; 
anthers ILaear-lanceolate, connivent in the form of a cone. 
5. Anchusa. Cal. .5-fid. Cor. funnelsliaped tvith a straight 
tube ; throat closed by prominent blimt 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. Symphytum. Cal. 5-cleft or 5-parted. Cor. cylimlrical- 
bellshaped, throat closed by a prominent cone of connivent 
lanceolate-sttlndate scales. Stam. exserted from the tube but 
covered by the scales ; filaments short. Nuts ovate. 
•Tr. ni. LITHOSPERME^. Nuts 4, aflixed to an hypogy- 
nous disk, their base not excavated but attached by a fiat 
or rather convex surface. 
