200 
BORAGINACE-33. . 
or of 4 dry nucules. — Herbs or sbrubs ; leaves mostly alternate, 
exstipulate, usually rough ; flowers in scorpioid spikes or cymes. 
Distrib. Cosmopolitan. Species 1200. 
Fruit a drupe with bony pyrenes. 
Calyx large, accrescent, inclosing the fruit .... 1. Cordia. 
Calyx small, not enclosing the fruit. 
Corolla campanulate 2. Ehretia. 
Corolla hypocrateriform 3. Tournefortia. 
Fruit of four dry nucules. 
Leaves opposite. Calyx large 4. Trichodesma. 
Leaves alternate. Calyx small. 
Nucules 4, spreading equally. Flowers racemose. 
Nucules erect. Racemes bracteated * Bothriospermum. 
Nucules spreading. Racemes without bracts . . 6. Cynoglossum. 
Nucules in two divaricating pairs. 
Flowers in secund spikes 6. Heliotropium. 
1. CORDIA, Linn. 
Calyx funnel-shaped, usually 5-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
usually 5-lobed. Ovary 4-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells ; style 
filiform, twice forked at the top. Fruit drupaceous, often by abortion 
3-1-celled. — Shrubs, with leaves usually alternate, with small or large 
flowers in terminal or lateral spikes or cymes. Distrib. Round the 
world in the warmer zones. Species about 200. 
1. C. subcordata, Lam. ; A. DC. Prod. ix. 477. A low tree, 
glabrous in all its parts or the branchlets rather downy. Leaves alter- 
nate, entire, round or broad-oblong, cuspidate, subcoriaceous, reaching 
\ foot long and broad ; petiole 1-2 in. long. Flowers few, in short- 
peduncled lateral cymes ; pedicels articulated at the tip. Calyx oblong, 
not ribbed ; teeth 3-5. Corolla white, 1\ in. long and broad, with 6-7 
plicate round imbricated lobes. Fruit as large as an acorn, dry, en- 
closed in the accrescent calyx. C. orientalis, B. Br. 
Seychelles, common on the shores. Polynesia to Zanzibar and Mozambique. 
2. EHRETIA, Linn. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla campanulate, with 5 short 
spreading lobes. Stamens 5, included, inserted about the middle of 
the tube. Ovary 4-celled, seated on a round disk ; style filiform, 
obscurely two-lobed at the apex. Fruit a small drupe, containing 1-4 
bony 2-seeded pyrenes. — Shrubs, with alternate leaves and small 
flowers in dense corymbs. Distrib. Round the world in the warmer 
zones. Species 50. 
Leaves serrated * E. serrata. 
Leaves entire 1. E. petiolaris. 
* E. serrata , Roxb. ; DC. Prod. ix. 503 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1. 1097, a 
native of the East Indies, is naturalised in Mauritius near Moka. It 
