160 €. BORAGINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Solenanthus. 
tubular, throat with 5 scales; lobes 5, small, obtuse, erect or scarcely spreading. 
Filaments long; anthers small, shortly oblong, far exserted. Ovary 4-lobed ; 
style from the base of the lobes, filiform, stigma small. Nutlets 4, attached 
somewhat obliquely to the conical carpophore, scarcely produced at the apex, 
rounded at the base, muricate or shortly glochidiate, usually margined.—Species 
10, in S, Europe, Central and W. Asia. 
1. S. circinnatus, Ledeb. FI. Alt. i. 194, and Ic. Fl. Ross. t. 26; radical 
leaves long-petioled cordate submembranous cauline subamplexicaul oblong- 
lanceolate, racemes forming a terminal panicle DC. Prodr. x. 164 ; Boiss. Fl. 
Orient. iv. 270. 
ALPINE Western Himataya; Zanskar, Thomson; Pangee, Dr. Watt.—DistR1s. 
Affghanistan, Astrabad, Soongaria, Altai. 
Stems 3 ft., erect, laxly hairy. Radical leaves 6 by 23 in.; petiole 8 in.; cauline 
3 byljin. Panicle in fruit 10 by 8 in., branches elongate; flowers approximate ; 
-pedicels 0-4 in. Calyx-lobes t by 3; in., oblong.  Corolla-tube 1 in.,lobes ṣo in. 
Filaments 1 in. Style 4-4 in. Nutlets forming a pyramid 1-1 in. diam., densely 
shortly glochidiate, especially round the margins; carpophore elongate-conic. 
13. PARACARYUM, Boiss. 
Perennial or biennial, hairy herbs. Leaves alternate. Racemes elongate, 
bracts few or 0. Flowers small, blue. Calyx deeply 5-fid, in fruit not much 
enlarged. Corolla funnel-shaped, or cylindric in P. heliocarpum, tube closed by 
5 scales ; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, beneath the 
scales. Ovary 4-lobed ; style from the base of the lobes, short or long, stigms 
small. Nutlets 4, depressed, often broadly adnate to the carpophore with rigid 
persistent style, forming a pyramid, their apices hardly produced, their bases 
rounded, attached obliquely to the elongate conical carpophore, glochidiate 
(except in P. ? Lambertianum), strongly margined; margin sometimes much 
reflexed as in Omphalodes.—Species 20, in S. Europe, W. and Central Asia. 
_ Sect. I. Stem solitary, tall, corymbose upwards. Leaves large.— (This sec 
tion differs from Cynoglossum microglochin, petiolatum, &c., only in the more 
-elongate conic carpophore, the nutlets being obliquely suberect, rather than much 
depressed and subdivaricate as in Cynoglossum.) 
l. P. ccelestinum, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 850; radical leaves ovate- 
cordate submembranous cauline ovate base cuneate strigose on the nerve? 
beneath, racemes divaricate furcate, pedicels very short. Cynoglossum cæles- 
tinum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 36; DC. Prodr. x. 151; Dalz. $ Gs 
Bomb. Fl. 173. Echinospermum cælestinum, Wight Ic. t. 1394. 
D ESTERN Deccan PexINsuLA ; from Mahableshwur to Mysore, common, Wight, 
laizell, ec. 
Erect, 3-4 ft., sparsely hairy. Radical leaves long-petioled, 7 by 5 in.; cauline 3j 
by 2 in., acute, subentire, tubercular-scabrous above, nearly glabrous beneath except 
on the nerves. Racemes strigose; branches 2-4 in.; pedicels 4 in., approximate. 
Calyx-lobes 3, in. elliptic; in fruit } in, ovate. Flowers 1 in. diam., nearly as ‘ 
Cynoglossum. Style scarcely } in. Outer faces of the nutlets X in. ovate, marg 
prominent. reflexed strongly glochidiate, disc nearly smooth shining. 
. 2. P. malabaricum, Clarke; radical leaves ovate-cordate tuberculate- 
hispid, cauline ovate cuneate at the base hirsute, racemes numerous erect 
