162 C. BORAGINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Paracaryum. 
petiole; cauline leaves 3 by 1} in., cuneate or rhomboid at the base. Spikes dense 
or lax. Ca/yx and corolla nearly as of P. glochidiatum. Nutlets much smaller, 
margin shorter, white, membranous, less reflexed, more shortly glochidiate. 
Sect. 2. Small hispid plants, with several stems. Leaves and flowers small.— 
(This section only differs from Omphalodes in the more erect nutlets, not saccate 
at the base.) 
7. P. himalayense, Clarke; leaves oblong, flowers subsessile, nutlets 
1—1 in. diam., margin subpatent glochidiate. Mattia himalayensis, Klotzsch in 
Reis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 94, t. 64.—Omphalodes sp. n. 4, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f- 
$ T. 
ALPINE WesTerN Himataya; Nubra, Thomson. 
Stems decumbent then ascending, 6-14 in., patently hispid. Radical leaves 1} by 
4 in.. narrowed at both ends, hispid on both surfaces, petiole 1 in. ; cauline similar, 
smaller, subsessile. Spikes in fruit 3-8 in.; pedicels hardly any, distant. Calyx- 
lobes hardly 3, in., oblong ; in fruit sometimes } in. Corolla scarcely } in. diam., blue, 
tube short. Fruit pyramidal; margin of nutlets membranous, dise muricate, subglo- 
chidiate ; style hardly à in. 
8. P. tibeticum, Clarke; leaves oblong, flowers subsessile or lower 
pedicelled, nutlets 4-1 in. diam., margin patent subentire.—Omphalodes sp. n. 6, 
Herb, Ind. Or. Hof. $ T. 
Western TinkT; Ladakh, alt. 9000 ft., Thomson. 
Much resembling P. himalayense. Stems more diffuse. Flowers very small, 
mostly subsessile ; lower pedicels in fruit occasionally iin. Fruit pyramidal ; margin 
of nutlets membranous, dise minutely glochidiate, style less than 45; in. 
9. P. microcarpum, Boiss. Diagn. 2. iii. 139, and Fl. Orient. iv. 255; 
leaves oblong, flowers pedicelled, nuts 4—1 in., margin inflexed entire. —Ompha- 
lodes sp. n. 7, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
ScvpALPINE Western Himataya, alt. 8000 ft. ; Kashmir and Pangee, Thomson.— 
Disrrir. Cabul. 
Diffuse, hairy.  Hacemes in fruit 3-8 in.; pedicels 4-} in. Calyx and corolla 
rather larger than of the two preceding species. Fruit pyramidal, somewhat depressed ; 
margin of nutlets membranous, as though inflated ; dise minutely glochidiate. 
14. ECHINOSPERMUM, Swark. 
Annual or perennial, hispid herbs. eaves alternate, oblong, lanceolate oF 
narrowly obovate. Flowers very small, sessile or pedicelled ; racemes bracteate; 
or ebracteate above. Sepals 5.  Corolla-tube short, mouth closed by 5 scales ; 
lobes 5, imbricate in the bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included. Anthers 
ovate, obtuse. Ovary 4-lobed; style between the lobes, short, stigma sma 
capitate. Nutlets 4, erect, forming a pyramid, confluent or separable, attached 
above their base; scar produced to their apex; bases not produced ; margins 
with l or 2 rows of strong glochidia; carpophore as long as the nutlets.— 
Species 20, in the north temperate regions of the old World and in N. America: 
a few in S. Africa and Australia. 
The character in Gen. Pl. (ii. 835) assigned of ** apices of the nuts erect, free 
round the style, more or less prominent," applies only to the glochidiate species 9 
Eritrichium placed by Bentham in Echinospermum, but here enumerated unter 
Eritrichium. 
, 
l. E. minimum, Lehm. Asperifol. 126; patently hispid, leaves linear- 
i P y i , 
oblong, calyx-lobes linear, nutlets elongate-pyramidal confluent. Myosotis 
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