164 c. BORAGINEXZ. (C. B. Clarke.) [.Eritrichium. 
scales; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included; 
anthers ovate, obtuse. Ovary 4-lobed ; style between the lobes, short, stigma 
small capitate. Nutlets 4, erect, much longer than the carpophore, scar small 
below their middle, nearly basal in E. basifizum, tips free ; margins winged by 
glochidia confluent at the base or rugose or entire.—Species 70; Europe, Temp. 
Asia, America ; in Australia. 
* Glochidia on the margin of the nutlets confluent at their bases. 
l. E. strictum, Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 195; perennial, silky- 
white, leaves linear, bracts minute in the upper part of the raceme, sepals in 
fruit JL in. oblong. A. DC. Prodr. x. 198. E. Jacquemontii and longi- 
folium, e. 1. c. 192, 123, tt. 197, 129; DC. l.c. 25. Echinospermum canum, 
Benth. in Royle Ill. 306; A. DC. Lc. 141. ? E. myosotiflorum, A. DC. Prodr. 
x. 141. 
Throughout the Western Hiataya, alt. 7-13,000 ft.; common, from Kashmir 
and Baltisthan to the Sutledge. . 
Rootstock woody ; stems 8 in., numerous, strict, undivided. Leaves 14 by iin. 
softly adpressedly silky ; lowest similar but larger, attenuate, hardly petioled ; radical 
withered. Racemes 1—3 in., branched ; pedicels 4-3 in., erect in fruit. Flowers + in. 
diam., blue. Nutlets forming a pyramid 4,4, in. high, produced more than half their 
length above the punctiform scar; margins subreflexed, thin, the weak glochidia 
produced shortly above their confluence, scabrous, apices of most divided, uncinate ; 
backs scabrous, or muricated with minute prickles.— Decaisne's example here describe 
has narrower leaves than the mass of the material which is half-way between this 
and var. Thomsoni. This is the type of the genus Echinospermum as described in the 
Gen. Pl, and may be E. myosotiflorum, A. DC. Prodr. x. 141. . 
Var. Thomsoni; glistening silky, stems 12-18 in. cauline leaves 2 by i 1- 
oblong radical much larger long-petioled, racemes larger with rather larger calyces 
and fruits, nutlets often pilose.—N. Kashmir, alt. 8000 ft., Thomson, &c. A most 
beautiful plant, perhaps specifically distinct. . 
Var. Frutioulosums weaker, greener, stems diffuse sometimes with divaricate 
branches, E. fruticulosum, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr. Wald. Bot. 96, t. 62. E. patens. 
Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 125; DC. Prodr. x. 128.—W. Himalaya, alt. 8-11,000 
ft.; Pangee, Lahoul, Changas; Thomson, &c. 
_2. E. spathulatum, Clarke; perennial, villous, leaves oblong, bracts 
minute in the upper part of the raceme, calyx-lobes in fruit 4-5 in. oblong. 
Echinospermum spathulatum, Benth. in Royle Ill. 306; DC. Prodr. x. 142. 
Western Trset; Hangarang Pass, Thomson; Kijungar Pass, alt. 16,000 ft. 
Strachey and Winterbottom. . 
Rootstock woody. Stems 2-6 in., numerous, decumbent. Cauline leaves } by 1 m» 
sessile; lower numerous, larger, spathulate, petioled. Nutlets not ripe, larger than in 
E. strictum, var. Thomsoni, hairy on the back.—Perhaps a form of E. strictum, but 
wants the glistening silky indumentum of that species; calyx and nutlets larger. 
** Margins of the nutlets entire or crenulate not glochidiate. 
3. Ei. pustulosum, Clarke; weak, diffuse, strigose, leaves spathulate- 
oblong, pedicels few subaxillary, nutlets ovoid tubercular and minutely pubes- 
cent.—Eritrichium sp. n. 14, Herb, Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
ALPINE Srxxim; Lachen, alt. 13-15,000 ft., J. D. H. . 
Rootstock biennial (at least) weak; stems 3-7 in. Leaves 2 by l in. cauline 
mostly spathulate, petioled, a few uppermost sessile. Pedicels 1-J in. in fruit. Calyz- 
lobes in fruit 4 in., elliptic-oblong. Flowers 1 in. diam., pale blue. Nutlets is 0" 
not distinctly margined ; tubercles appearing as tufts of minute hairs. 
