with latex. Lea. spiral, exstipulate (o in Cuscuta). 
Flow. 4 — 5-merous, usually g and actinomorphic. 
Cor. frequently very conspicuous, often plaited. 
Sta. 4—5. Carp. (2), each with 2 basal, erect, + 
anatropous ovules; ovary 2 — 4-, rarely i-celled. Fr. 
a capsule (in Brit. sp.). Seeds with scanty endo- 
sperm. 
Convolvulus, Calystegia, Cuscuta, \lpomoea.'\ 
Family 81. POLFMONIACF.®. Herbs (rarely 
shrubs). Lea. spiral or opposite, exstipulate (pin- 
nate in Brit. sp.). Flow. 5-merous, usually 
actinomorphic. Cor. twisted. Carp. (3), with i 
style and 3 stigmas; each carp, with i or more 
ascending anatropous ovules; plac. axile. Fr. a 
capsule. Seeds endospermous. 
Polemonium, [Cohcea, Phlox, Gilia (incl. 
Leptosiphon) .'j 
Family 82. BORAGINACF^. Herbs or low 
shrubs, mostly with coarse stiff hairs. Lea. mostly 
spiral, simple, entire, exstipulate. Flow, in cin- 
cinnal cymes, 5-merous, ^ , actinomorphic or 
occasionally zygomorphic. Cor. often with scaly 
appendages at the throat. Sta. 5. Carp. (2), median, 
each with 2 anatropous + suspended ovules, but 
ovary (usually) becoming very soon deeply 4-lobed 
and 4-celled by false partitions; style generally 
arising from between the lobes ; often there is a 
small hypogynous lobed disc (nectary). Fr. separa- 
ting into 4 i-seeded nutlets [a drupe in Heliotro- 
pium'j. Seeds almost or quite exendospermous. 
Cynoglossum, Symphytum, Borago, Anchusa (incl. 
Lycopsis), Pulmonaria, Myosotis, Lithospef’ 
mum, Mertensia, Echium, ^Asperugo, Echino- 
spermum { = Lappula), Omphalodes, Heliotro- 
pium."^ 
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