. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CCCCXXXVIII. Nolana, , , Hofer, Teganium, SchmidtNeudorffia, , Lindl. Numbers. Gen. 6 Dolia, , Miers jSorema, , Lindl. Sp. 35. Position.—Boraginaceae. ConvolvulacecB. -NoLANACE^.— Solanacece. Fig. CCCCXXXVIII.—1. Alona coelestis ; 2. its pistil; 3. a transverse section of it; 4. section of seedof Nolana prostrata; 5. part of the fruit of Aplocarya divaricata. ECHULES.] 655 Order CCLIII. BORAG
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CCCCXXXVIII. Nolana, , , Hofer, Teganium, SchmidtNeudorffia, , Lindl. Numbers. Gen. 6 Dolia, , Miers jSorema, , Lindl. Sp. 35. Position.—Boraginaceae. ConvolvulacecB. -NoLANACE^.— Solanacece. Fig. CCCCXXXVIII.—1. Alona coelestis ; 2. its pistil; 3. a transverse section of it; 4. section of seedof Nolana prostrata; 5. part of the fruit of Aplocarya divaricata. ECHULES.] 655 Order CCLIII. BORAGINACEiE.—Boragewortp. Boraginese, Juss. Gen. 143. (1789); R. Brown Prodr. 492 ; Bartl. Ord. Nat. 196. (1830).—Asperifolia-,Linn. Martins Conspectus, No. 118. (1835) ; Endl. Qen. cxliii. Diagnosis.—Echial Exogcns, with regular symmetrical flowers, 5 stamens, 4 nuts or twopairSj a naked stigma, and circinate inflorescence. Herbaceous plants or shrubs. Stems round. Leaves altei-nate, often covered withasperities consisting of hairs proceeding fiom an indurated enlarged base. Flowers in. Fig. CCCCXXXIX. 1 -sided g>rate spikes or racemes, or panicles, sometimes solitary and axillary. Calyxpersistent, ^\ith 4 or 5 di^^sions. Corolla hj-pogj-nous, monopetalous, generally regu-lar, 5-cleft, sometimes 4-cleft, ^Wth an imbricated a?stivation. Stamens insertedupon the corolla, equal to the number of its lobes and alternate with them. Ovary4-parted, 4-seeded, or 2-parted, 4-celled ; ovules attached to the lowest point of thecavity, amphitropal ; style simple, arising from the base of the lobes of the ovary ;stigma simple or bifid. Nuts 2 or 4, distinct. Seed separable from the pericarp, des-titute of albumen. Embryo with a superior radicle ; cotyledons pai-allel with the axis,plano-convex, sometimes 4 ! in Amsinckia. The plants of this Order are nearly allied to Labiates, from which they are essentiallydistinguished by the regularity of the corolla, the presence of 5 fertile
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