BORAGINE/E. XXXIII. Cynocetossum. 
funnel-shaped, or subrotate; throat furnished with erect pro- 
cesses. Stamens inclosed. Stigma nearly simple. Carpels 4, 
1-celled, depressed, echinated, imperforated at the base, fixed to 
the central column.—Tall, robust, downy plants, soft to the 
touch. Leaves large, broadest at top. Racemes usually bract- 
less, secund, terminal, simple, bifid, or twin. The prickles on 
the outside of the carpels are usually glochidate. 
§ 1. Stamens inclosed. 
1 C. paucirrérum (Ruiz. et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 6.) stem 
erect ; leaves lanceolate, narrowed towards the base; peduncles 
usually 7-flowered ; flowers on short pedicels) ©. H. Native 
of Chili, in fields about Conception. Lehm. asper. p. 139. 
Plant densely hispid, canescent. Peduncles axillary. Corolla 
twice as long as the calyx. 
Few-flowered Hound's-tongue. Pl. 1 to 2 feet? 
2 C. Javonicum (Thunb. fl. jap. p. 81. icon. dec. 8. t. 2.) 
stems prostrate; leaves oblong, stem-clasping, acute, villous, 
finely serrulated. ©. H. Native of Japan. Lehm. asper. p. 
139. Root fibrous. Calyx villous. Corolla purple, longer 
than the calyx. 
Japan Hound's-tongue. Pl. decumbent. 
3 C. pirru'sum (Roxb. fl. ind. ed. Wall. 2. p. 7. Lehm. 
asper. p. 140.) stems ascending, diffuse; leaves obovate-spatu- 
late, petiolate, strigosely pilose, terminated by a short acumen ; 
racemes leafy. (2. H. Native of Bengal. Root fusiform, 
fibrous. Calyx pilose, with ovate-lanceolate, acuminated seg- 
ments. Stems and pedicels canescent from long hairs. Co- 
rolla with a gibbous tube; its mouth contracted by 5 broad, 
emarginate scales. Carpels obovate, scabrous. 
Diffuse Hound’s-tongue. Pl. ascending. 
4 C. prostra‘rum (Hamilt. mss. ex D. Don, prod. fl. nep. 
p. 100.) plant hispid from bristles, prostrate; radical leaves 
obovate, on long petioles: cauline ones elliptic, sessile; flowers 
on short pedicels, generally extra-axilary ; nuts muricate. ©. 
H. Native of Nipaul, at Baguanpur. 
Prostrate Hound's-tongue. PI. prostrate. 
5 C. rurca‘tum (Wall. in Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 6. D. Don, 
prod. fl. nep. p. 100.) stem erect; leaves elliptic-oblong, acute, 
half stem-clasping, silky on both surfaces, as well as the stem; 
racemes erect, thin-flowered. 2. F. Native of Upper Ni- 
paul, at Suembu. C. carüleum, Ham. mss. Racemes twin, 
woolly, bractless. Calycine segments ovate, obtuse, bristly. 
Corolla blue. Carpels glochidate. Very like a species of 
M yosttis. 
Forked-racemed Hound's-tongue. PI. 14 foot. 
6 C. marirorium (Roxb. fl. ind. ed. Wall. 2. p. 8.) plant 
diffuse, hairy; leaves bifarious, oblong; flowers solitary, be- 
tween the leaves; corolla half the length of the calyx. ©. H. 
Native of Bengal. Leaves i inch long. Flowers on short pe- 
dicels, of a pale, whitish blue. Stigma emarginate. Nuts rough, 
round, almost hid by the calyx. 
Marum-leaved Hound’s-tongue. Pl. procumbent. 
7 C. aNicuLA TUM (Hook. et Arn. in Beech. bot. p. 37.) 
plant clothed with adpressed hairs; leaves lanceolate, very 
acute, gradually tapering into the petioles, ciliated, shining, 
clothed with hoary, silky down beneath; racemes terminal, 
panicled, loose, few-flowered, bracteate; fruit bearing pedicels, 
very long, spreadingly deflexed ; carpels glochidate. 4. LE: 
Native of Chili, at Conception; and of Peru, in Murilla Bay.— 
The base of the plant is frutescent. Leaves 3-4 inches long, 
with slightly revolute edges. 
Panicled Hound's-tongue. Pl. 13 to 2 feet. 
8 C. cuxmurüLiUM (Roy. lugdb. p. 406. Lin. spec. p. 193.) 
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stem erect; leaves lanceolate, obtuse, tomentose, hoary; ra- 
cemes bracteate; corolla twice as long asthe calyx. 4.? X.F.? 
Native of the South of Europe, Levant, and Barbary. - Horn. 
hort. hafn. 1. p. 177.  Lapeyr. abr. p. 87. Hoffm. et Link, fl. 
port. l. p. 191. Vill. dauph. 2. p. 457. All. ped. 1. no. 171. 
Gouan. hort. monsp. p. 82. Lehm. asper. 141. C. argénteum, 
Lam. fl. fr. 2. p. 277.—Dalech. hist. 2. p. 1261. f. 1. Stems 
many from the same root, simple. Plant hoary from fine tomen- 
tum. Racemes terminal, simple, rarely bifid. Calycine seg- 
ments lanceolate, bluntish. Corolla rose-coloured ; processes 
of the throat deep red. Carpels covered with glochidate 
prickles. 
Var. B, lanàütum (Lehm. asper. p. 141.) leaves villous; calyxes 
hairy ; stamens rather longer than the corolla. 4. F. Native 
of Barbary. Anchisa lanàta, Lin. spec. p. 192. Desf. fl. 
atl. 1. p. 158. Willd. spec. 1. p. 758. Lam. ill. gen. no. 
1813. 
Var. y, calcaràtum (D. C. fl. fr. 6. p. 422.) d. H. Native 
of France. 
Wall-flower-leaved Hound’s-tongue. 
Pl. 4 to 1 foot. 
9 C. pecu’RRENs (Ruiz. et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 6. no. 1.) stem 
erect, angularly winged ; leaves broad, lanceolate, acute, decur- 
rent, veiny, hispid. ©. H. Native of Chili, in groves. Lehm. 
asper. p. 143. Feulle, chil. 2. t. 49. Hook. et Arn. in Beech. 
voy. pt. bot. p. 37. Plant hispid. Flowers distant. Corollas 
whitish-blue. Carpels echinated with glochidate bristles. Ra- 
cemes terminal, leafy. 
Decurrent-leaved Hound's-tongue. Pl. 1 to 2 feet ? 
10 C. Mexica‘num (Cham. in Linnea, 5. p. 114.) stem 
erect, hairy, leafy, branched at the top ; radical leaves elliptic, 
mucronate, on long petioles, clothed with hair-like down, rough 
above: cauline leaves similar to the radical ones: uppermost 
ones lanceolate, sessile; racemes loose, panicled; carpels furnish- 
ed with glochidate prickles on the outer sides.  4.H. Native 
of Mexico, on Mount Macultipec. Flowers blue. Nuts size of 
grains of pepper. 
Mexican Hound's-tongue. PI. 2 to 3 feet. 
11 ui'sprpum (Thunb. in Schrad. journ. 1. p. 1806. p. 46. 
prod. p. 34.) stem erect; lower leaves oblong-lanceolate, ob- 
tuse: upper ones lanceolate, acute, hispid; racemes bractless, 
usually 3-flowered ; stamens shorter than the corolla, which is 
ventricose. (2. H. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Lehm. asper. p. 143. Stem hispid from adpressed hairs. 
Racemes constituting a terminal panicle. Calyx hispid; seg- 
ments oblong, obtuse. Corolla rufescent ; processes of the 
throat fleshy. 
Hispid Hound's-tongue. Pl. 1 to 11 foot. 
12 C. tomenrosum (Lehm. asper. p. 144.) stem erect; 
lower leaves oblong-lanceolate, bluntish : superior ones linear- 
lanceolate, half stem-clasping, clothed with dense, yellow, golden 
tomentum ; racemes terminal, bractless, many-flowered. %. H. 
Native of Italy. Stems angular, canescent. Radical leaves 3-4 
inches long. Racemes twin, terminal. Calycine segments oblong- 
lanceolate, obtuse. Carpels covered with short glochidate prickles. 
Tomentose Hound's-tongue. PI. 3 to 1 foot. 
13 C. rawcEoLA'ruw (Forsk. descr. p. 41.) stem erect; 
leaves sessile, lanceolate, acute, entire, attenuated at the base, 
hairy, veined, downy beneath; racemes solitary, bractless ; 
stamens inclosed. (2. H. Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope, and Arabia. Vahl, symb. 2. p. 34. Willd. spec. 1. 
p. 761. Lehm. asper. p. 145. C. hirsütum, Thunb. in Schrad. 
journ. 1. p. 1806. p. 47—48. prod. fl. cap. p. 34. Willd. spec. 
1. p. 763. Stems hairy, canescent. Young branches densely 
clothed with yellow hairs. Leaves hairy or strigose above. 
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