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11. LINDELOFIA, Le». 
An erect, perennial, hairy herb. Radical /eaves petiolate ; cauline alternate, 
from ovate to linear-lanceolate, Racemes dense, elongate, ebracteate. Flowers 
blue, purple, or nearly black. Sepals in fruit somewhat enlarged, s reading. 
Corolla-tube cylindric, longer than the calyx, crowned with scales in the throat 
forming a cone; lobes obtuse, round, spreading, horizontally imbricated in bud. 
Stamens 5 ; anthers large, linear--oblong, exserted, but scarcely overtopping the 
scales. Ovary 4-lobed ; style from near the base of the lobes, long, stigma 
small, Nutlets 4, depressed, rounded at the base, apices hardly produced, glo- 
chidiate ; carpophore short. 
L. spectabilis, Lehm. in Linnea, xxiv. 216; hairy, cauline leaves 
sessile oblong, corolla-tube 1-3 times as long as the calyx, faces of the nutlets 
glochidiate on the margin chiefly. Cynoglossum longiflorum, Benth. in Royle 
Ill. 305; Bot. Reg. 26, t. 50. C. grandiflorum, Benth. in Royle IU. 305; 
DC. Prodr. x. 156. Omphalodes longiflora, A. DC. Prodr. x. 158, Anchusopsis 
longiflora, Bisch. in Linnea, xxxvi. 736. 
ALPINE Western Himataya ; alt. 10-12,000 ft., from Gurwhal to Kashmir, Royle, 
Madden, Falconer, &c. 
Stem 1-2 ft., patently, sometimes densely hairy. Radical leaves long-petioled, 
2-4 in., lanceolate; lower cauline petioled, upper subcordate, amplexicaul, 3 in., 
hirsute more or less on both surfaces. Racemes dense, even in fruit, or elongate lax. 
Calyz-lobes in flower i in., subacute, in the type example, sometimes obtuse, variable 
n length, sparingly pilose or woolly. Corola intense blue, tube } in., lobes 1 in. in 
the type example, excessively variable in size. Outer faces of the nutlets +4 in., 
ovate, marginal glochidia connate at the base, the obscure medial line sparingly 
glochidiate, the rest of the surface nearly smooth; in a word, as of Cynoglossum ; 
carpophore sublinear.—Hardly any two examples agree in the size and shape of the 
corolla and ealyx or in their relative sizes. . 
Van. Falconeri; stems strict, leaves linear-lanceolate, calyx-lobes } in. narrowly 
oblong, corolla-tube 1-$ in.— Kashmir, Falconer. . 
AR. Levingii ; leaves elliptie and ovate acute, calyx-lobes 3-3 in. ovate, eorolla- 
tube $ by i in., segments 4 in. diam. orbicular, style 3 in.— Kashmir; Pir Pingul, alt. 
11,500 ft., Levinge. This has much larger flowers than any other example. 
2. L. Benthami, Hook f.; hairy, leaves linear-lanceolate acute, racemes 
Panicled, corolla-tube about equalling the calyx narrow, segments elliptic or 
oblong suberect. Solenanthus sp. 8, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
Kasuwrg and WESTERN TreET; alt, 11-15,000 ft., Thomson, Strachey § Winter- 
hottom, &e. 
Stems 2-3 ft., erect. Radica? leaves long-petioled, narrow-lanceolate, cauline 
sessile 4 by i-i in. Panicles repeatedly branched, laxly racemose ; pedicels 1-4 in. 
and upwards, Calyx-lobes at flower-time nearly } by d in., narrowly lanceolate, acute. 
Corolla-tube t-3 by d in., cylindric; lobes à by 45 in., erect or only half-patent. 
laments as long as the scales; anthers exserted (not from the corolla). Sivle 
fin. Nutlets 3-1 in., forming a pyramid, densely shortly glochidiate, especia ly 
Tend the margins ; carpophore elongate conic.— This may prove to be S. angustifolius, 
Fisch, q. Mey. ; DC. Prodr. x. 165; it was placed in Lindelofia by Bentham, (to which 
genus I would refer the Solenanthi with long anthers, as S. lanatus, A. De., 
8. brachtystemon, F. & M.—J. D. Hooker). 
12, SOLENA NTHUS, Ledeb. 
Perennial, hai herbs, Leaves alternate, radical petioled. Racemes dense 
or Corymbose, ebracteate. Calyx 5-partite, scarcely enlarged in fruit. Corolla 
