166 C. BORAGINES. (C. B. Clarke.) ( Rochelia, 
Stamens 5, included; anthers ovate, obtuse. Ovary 2-lobed, 2-celled ; style 
from between the lobes, sublateral, shortly linear, stigma capitate ; ovule 1 in 
each cell. Nudtlets 2, 1-seeded, erect, ovate-oblong, granular-tubercular (in the 
Indian species) ; scar extending from the base to the middle.—Species 8; from 
India, through W. Asia to N. Africa and S. Europe; 1 in Australia. 
1. R. stellulata, Reichb. Iconogr. ii. 19, t. 123; villous, subhispid, 
leaves narrowly oblong subspathulate, sepals in fruit linear incurved with 
hooked hairs, pedicels not exceeding the sepals. DC. Prodr. x. 176 ; Boiss. Fl. 
Orient. iv. 244. R. saccharata, Reichb. in. Flora, 1824, 243. Lithospermum dis- 
permum, Linn. Sp. Pl. 191. L. retortum, Pallas Voy. (ed. Gauthier) v. 497, t. 
6, fig. 3. 
Western TisgT; Nubra, Thomson.—Disrris. From Soongaria and Cabul to Spain 
and Algeria. 
Stems 5-14 in., branched, wiry. eaves 1 by lin. lower subpetioled. Racemes 
in fruit 2-12 in.; bracts to nearly all the flowers, leaflike, smaller upwards. Sepals 
in flower scarcely 3, in., in fruit nearly lin. Corolla à in. long, less than is in. 
diam. Nutlets nearly } in. long, white-tuberculate; style hardly longer than the 
nutlets ; pedicels in fruit subpatent, not distinctly recurved nor thickened. 
2. R. stylaris, Bois. Fl. Orient. iv. 245; adpressedly villous, leaves 
spathulate-oblong or sublinear, sepals in fruit linear incurved without hook 
hairs, pedicels exceeding the sepals. R. stellulata, Aitchison Punjab List, 07. 
Kasmwrm, and adjoining Punsan Prais, frequent; Thomson, Vicary, &— 
Disrnis. Cabul. 
Annual, 2-8 in., erect. Leaves narrower, racemes slenderer than in R. stellulata. 
Pedicels in fruit deflexed, scarcely thickened. Style considerably exceeding the 
nutlets.—Closely allied to R. stellulata. 
3. R. rectipes, Stocks in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 17 6; villous, subhispid; 
leaves oblong, sepals in fruit ligulate base keeled with spreading scarcely hoo ed 
hairs, pedicels about equalling the sepals. 
Western TrsET; Zanskar, TÀomson.— Distrib. Cabul and Beloochistan. 
Annual; stems 2-5 in., erect, with ascending branches. Leaves $ by à in. lower 
spathulate or eublinear. Racemes in fruit 1-4 in., somewhat dense, bracteate. 
in fruit 1 by j. in. wide at the base, hairs soft hardly hooked even when dry. 
pale-blue, with a white throat (Stocks). Nutlets scarcely half as long as the sepals ; 
fruiting pedicels suberect, not thickened.—Boissier (Fl. Orient. iv. 246) reduces this 
species to R. macrocalyx, Bunge (in Pl. Lehm. 419). But Bunge describes the fruit- 
ing sepals as bigibbous at the base and very hispid, which does not fit. There 15 
another Cabul plant of Griffith's which (ex descr.) may be R. macrocalyx, Bunge, and 
which may have been sent to Boissier as R, recipes. 
4. R. cardiosepala, Bunge in Pl. Lehm. 420; strigose, subhispid, leaves 
oblong, sepals in fruit ovate-lanceolate auriculate-cordate at the base hisp! 
pedicels in fruit recurved as long as the sepals. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 240. 
WESTERN TIBET; Nubra, TÀomson.—DisTRrB. Turkestan. 
Annual, erect, 6-8 in. very ramous. Leaves ll by } in., lower spathulate OT 
petioled. Racemes lax, 2-5 in.; braets to nearly all the flowers, leaflike, sm "d 
upwards. Sepals in flower, 4 in., white silky, in fruit } by 3-3 in. Corolla à by p 
Nutlets è in., rather larger than of R, stellulata. 
17. ASPERUGO, Linn. 
A _Procument, scabrous-hispid annual, Leaves alternate and suboppos 
spathulate-oblong or petioled, subentire. Flowers small, axillary, Su h 
