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CYNOGLOSSUM longiflorum. 
Long-flowered Hounds-tongue. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. BORAGINACEX. 
CYNOGLOSSUM. Botanical Register, 1839. fol. 36. 
C. longiflorum (Royle mss.); pilosum, foliis oblongis acuminatis superioribus 
basi cordato-amplexicaulibus, racemis ebracteatis, calycis laciniis tubo 
corolle duplô brevioribus, nucibus marginatis: aculeis uniserialibus 
paucisque sparsis. Bentham in Royle's Illustr. p. 305. 
Of this fine species of Hounds-tongue the characteristic 
marks are derived in part from the great length of the tube 
of the corolla, and in part from the elongation of the pro- 
cesses which rise up from the mouth of the corolla, and 
alternate with the stamens. They are as long as the project- 
ing filaments, curved inwards and emarginate at the apex, 
and hollow, which latter circumstance renders it probable that 
they are mere folds of the corolla and not abortive stamina. 
According to Brown (Prodr. p.495) the species with 
projecting stamens are to be excluded from the genus; and 
if so, this plant is not a Cynoglossum. But the fruit is that 
of the latter genus, not of Anchusa, to which I presume the 
species must otherwise be referred. 
This is a very pretty hardy perennial, growing about a 
foot and a half high, if planted in any good garden soil, and 
flowering freely from the end of May to the beginning of 
August. 
It is increased by seeds or divisions of the roots ; but by 
seeds is the best way, as they are produced abundantly ; how- 
ever the plants so raised will not flower before the second 
season after sowing. 
