988 
BORAGO orientalis. 
Oriental Borage. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BoRAGIne®. Jussieu gen. 28. Div. IV. Brown prod. 1. 
492, 
BORAGO. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. hypogyna rotata 5-fida, plerumque’ 
patens; (faus instructa 5 squamis calcarum instar cavis, intra corollam 
prominulis in ejusdem laciniarum basi; extra hiulcis:) sguamule obtuse 
emarginate. Stigma 1: (fructus apnea amt) sem. rugosa, 
calyce connivente tecta. Herbe plerimque asperifolie. Juss. 1. c. 131. 
B. orientalis, calycibus tubo corolla brevioribus, foliis cordatis. Linn. Spe 
eal 381.07. 
Raven orientalis.» Mull. dict. ed. 8.n.2. Hort. Kew. 1. 184. ed, 2. 1.997. 
Smith prod. fl. grac. 122. Fl. sreca 63.-tab. 175. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 
778. 
Borago constantinopolitana. Mill. ic. 1. 45. t. 68. 
Borago constantinopolitana, flore reflexo cwruleo, calyce vesicario. Tourn. 
cor. 6. Isjusd. it. 2. 13. cum icone. Buxb. cent. 5. 16. t. 30. 
Radix tuberosa, perennis, extits nigra. Caulis herbaceus, erectus, pedalis 
aut sesquipedalis, angulato-teres, hisprdus, purpurascens; superné paniculato- 
ramosus, foliolosus. Fol. radicalia maxima, longis petiolata, cordata, acuta, 
undulata, reticulato-venosa; utringue setoso-scabra, subtis es + caulina 
minora, alterna, breviiis petiolata; Se te ovato-lanceolata, basi elongata, 
angustata, subsessilia. Petioli canaliculati, subretrorsum hispidi, basi va- 
pugs Racemi in apicibus ramorum, gemini, breves, pilost, nutantes, 
racteati. Bractez ovate, obtuse, pilose, pedicellis breviores. Flores copiost, 
purpuro-cerulet, cernui. Calycis lacinie obovato-oblonge, pilose, erecta. 
Corollz tubus calyce duplo fere aie albus, sursiim ampliatus; faux 
intis pilosa, valvulis brevibus rotundatis, emarginatis, pubescentibus, albis 
coronata; limbus purpuro-ceruleus, tubo longior, laciniis linearibus, subtis 
pilosis, basi horizontalibus, apice revolutis. Stam. fauce inserla, limbo ex- 
Planato breviora, subulata, erecta, conniventia, incarnata, intis pilosa. 
Anthera incumbentes, oblonge, nigre. Germ. parvum, 4-fidum. Stylus 
Jiliformis, roseus, glaber, staminibus paritm longior. Stig. obtusum, nigrum. 
Smith Flor. Grea. 1. c. 
Indica, xeylanica, and africana, three former species of 
this genus, have been lately withdrawn by Mr. Brown, 
and combined into a separate group by the title of Tri- 
cHospEsma, distinguished from Boracgo by a considerable 
difference in the structures of the anther and fruit, as well 
as by not having the remarkable appendices which crown the 
mouth of the tube of the corolla in that. A reform by which 
Borago is reduced to five or six recorded species, all, we 
believe, belonging exclusively to the Levant and the Coast of 
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