BORAGINACEOUS

adj. Bor-aj-i°n-a’shuSs. NEOUS. BORAGINEÆ (Lat.),n. f. pl.?r)-a?j(a$; )—l’n'e‘æs(a‘-c‘î. Fr., borraginées. Ger., Boragineen. Syn.: Asperifoliæ [Linnæusi. An order of gamopetalous licotyledonous plants comprising seabrous or hispid herbs, trees, or shrubs with watery juice, bear in; alternate (rarely opposite) exstipulate, generally entire leaves, an scorpioid, dichotomously branching cymes of usually regular and five-parted perfect flowers with hypogynous, campanulate, or tubular calyx; a gamopetalous, funnel-shaped, tubular, hypo crateriform, or campanulate corolla with the lobes imbricate, convolute, or plicate in the bud; stamens ecualins in number and alternate in position with the lobes of the corolla, from the throat or tube of which they spring; an inconspicuous hypogynous disc confluent with the base of the ovary; a gynœcium regularly composed of 2 hi-ovulate cary which may either coalesce into a single entire 4- ing the single style upon its summit or may divide led ovary, including the style between its divis- The ovules are anatropous or amphitropous, the seeds are of See Boraciions: nearly or quite exalbuminous, the embryo is usually straight, and the radicle is superior or centripetal. e fruit is composed of 4 nutlets or is a drupe containing from 2 to 4 cells. The B. are divided into the tribes Cordiew (by some made a separate order), Ehretieæ, Heliotropieæ, and Borageæ. [B, 42, 215.]