4.04, 
TOURNEFORTIA fruticosa. 
Sweet-scented Tournefortia. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BORAGINER. Jussieu gen. 128. Brown prod. 1. 492. 
_ TOURNEFORTIA. Cal. 5-partituy. Cor. hypocrateriformis (v. sub- 
rotata), fauce nuda. Stam. inclusa. Stig. peltatum, subconicum. Bacca 
dipyrena, ossiculis dispermis. Frutices volubiles v. erecti. Fol. scabra v. 
tomentosa, integra. Spice secunde, ebracteate, sepius cymose. Brown 
prod. 1. 496. 
T. fruticosa, caule fruticoso, foliis petiolatis, corollis hypocrateriformibus, 
Lin. suppl. 132; (sub MESSERSCHMIDIA). 
Tournefortia Messerschmidia. Sweet hort. sub. lond. 31. 
Messerschmidia fruticosa. Linn. suppl. 132. Willd. sp. pl. 1.'789. Ejusd. 
enum. 1.188. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 3038. 
Rami avillares, flexuosi, virides, teretes, hispidi. Vol. divaricata, 
elongato-lanceolata, saturate viridia, hispida, nitida, 3-uncialia v. ultra 
latitudine unciali v. infra, inferné subovata superné longits attenuata: pet" 
pluries brevior lamina, @ supino canaliculatus. Panicule ebracteate, ramu- 
lorum summorum terminales, dichotomo-cymose, divaricaia, flextose, flore 
soliturio in singulis furcis sessile; spicule dichotome, pedunculate, recurve, 
floribus parvulis bifariam v. disticho-secundis, approximatis, rachide ap- 
pressé villosa. Cal. parvus, herbaceus, pubescens, campanulatus, aliquoties 
brevior tubo corolla, persistens, segmentis acuminatis. Cor. hypocraterifor- 
mis, luteo-virens, extus pubescens: tubus rectus, tereti-angulosus; faux tn- 
fiatior, saturate virens, intus ad orificium plicis 5 cum laciniis alternantibus 
notata: limbus pallidé et squalidé lutescens, stellato-patens estivatione 
valvari infracto-connivente, laciniis acuminatis undulatis intis glabris. 
Anth. subsessiles, fusce, sagittato-oblonge, fauce incluse. Stylus colum- 
naris, teres, glaber, crassiusculus: stig. peltato-capitatum, virens, conicum, 
villosum, obtusum, bast planum: germ. calyce inclusum, viride, rugosum, 
umbilicatum, subrotundum, basi disco glanduloso luteo cinctum. 
The genus Messerscumipia, where our plant formerly 
ranked, has been incorporated by Mr. Brown with Tour- 
NerortrA, technically distinguished in the Prodromus of the 
Flora of New Holland among its co-ordinate Boraginew 
by a definition of which the following is a version: 
Calyx 5-parted: corolla hypocrateriform or nearly rotate 
smooth (naked) in the fauw: stamens enclosed: stigma - 
peltate, subconical: berry dipyrenous (twin-stoned), each 
stone (ossicle) containing two seeds (kernels): embryo in- 
verted. The species are shrubby and consist of both 
twining and standard plants, with entire and either rough or 
