Omphalodes.] C. BORAGINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 155 
A. tibetica; Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 846. 
Western Tizet; Nubra, alt. 13,000 ft.; near Karsar village, Thomson. 
Stems 4-14 in., prostrate, branched. Leaves 3 by à in., subobtuse. Pedicels 1- 
lin. Sepals 3, in., narrowly oblong. Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the sepals ; 
lobes 3, in. Nutlets 3. in. 
9. OMPHALODES, Moench. 
Weak, decumbent herbs, strigose or subglabrous. Radical leaves long- 
petioled, lanceolate or ovate; cauline few, alternate.  Pedicels in lax racemes, 
slender, lower subaxillary solitary from leaf-like bracts. Flowers white or blue. 
Sepals 5, spreading, little enlarged in fruit. Corolla rotate, throat almost 
closed by obtuse scales; lobes 5, round, spreading, imbricate in the bud. 
Stamens 5, included; anthers small, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style 
filiform, from the base of the lobes, stigma small or subcapitate. Nutlets 4, 
depressed, forming a pyramid, attached to the small carpophore by their inner 
faces, their margins broad thin, entire or serrate, reflexed over the back of the 
nuts so as to form on each a small nearly closed cell opening outwards by a 
small hole; nuts smooth on the back.—Species 10; from the Mediterranean 
basin to Central Asia and Japan. 
O. Thomsoni, Clarke ; leaves elliptic or oblong subobtuse strigose on 
both surfaces, racemes lax subterminal, revolute margins of the nutlets nearly 
entire. Omphalodes, sp. 8, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
Western TIBET: Nubra, alt. 13,000 ft., Thomson. ; 
Rootstock perennial; annual branches 6-10 in., very numerous, slender, strigose. 
adical leaves 1 by 1 in., spathulate; petiole 4-14 in.; cauline $ by j in., sessile. 
Pedicels 4-3 in., recurved in fruit. Sepals } in., oblong, reflexed in fruit, Fruit j 
m. long and broad, exactly pyramidal; nutlets somewhat saccate at base, appearing 
inflated by the reflexed loose membranous margin. 
10. CYNOGLOSSUM, Linn. 
Biennial or perennial herbs, erect, hairy. Leaves alternate, radical petioled. 
cemes elongate, ebracteate; flowers ultimately distant, sessile or lower 
shortly pedicelled, blueish or purple. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, in fruit spreading 
Tot (or slightly) enlarged. Corolla-tube short, with 5 obtuse or emarginate 
Scales in the throat; lobes 5, obtuse, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 5, included 
beneath the scales; anthers small, ovate, their tips hardly above the mouth of 
the corolla-tube. Ovary-lobes 4; style short or longish from the base of the 
Odes, stigma small. Nudlets 4, forming a much depressed pyramid, apices 
ardly produced above the hilum, bases rounded produced downwards, outer 
aces convex or flattened, with or without a margin, glochidiate ; carpophore 
(after the nuts have fallen) linear, shortly conic at the base (elongate-conic in 
“4titchiei and sometimes in C. denticulatum, var. zeylanica.—Species 60 ; in 
Subtropical and temperate, especially mountain regions. 
* Flowers very small; style neither in flower nor in fruit exceeding à în. 
l. C. furcatum, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wail. ii. 6, and 
Cat, 919 ; depressed-strigose, upper cauline leaves oblong sessile entire softly 
airy, racemes furcate branches long fulvous towards the tips, lower Howers 
tinctly pedicelled, outer faces of the nutlets ovate distinctly margined by the 
confluence of the bases of the marginal glochidia. Don Prodr. 100; . 
Cat a 149; Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Petersb. xvii. 554. C. ovatum, Moon 
