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rarely glabrous. Inflorescence a raceme of dichesial or scorpioid 
cymes, at times condensed into a dichesium of scorpioids or a simple 
scorpioid cyme. Flowers pentamerous, regular, passing to slight 
or marked irregularity (. Echium)\ sepals five; green, slightly or 
Fig. 227 .—Atropa belladonna —Branch. (Sayre.) 
deeply gamosepalous, often hairy; petals five, the corolla varying in 
shape from rotate with shallow tube (Myosotis and Borage ), to 
tubular (, Symphytum ), to funnel-shaped in most species, in color, all 
transitions frequently purple-blue to blue; stamens five; pistil 
