Asperugo. | €. BORAGINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 167 
solitary or paired. Calyx campanulate, 5-fid half-way down ; in fruit much 
enlarged, rigid, compressed, lobes toothed nervose.  Corolla-tube short, mouth 
closed with 5 scales; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, 
included; anthers ovate-oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style short, 
stigma small capitate. Nutlets 4, erect, ellipsoid-oblong, laterally compressed, 
smooth, stony, attached at a small subpunctiform scar above their middle; car- 
pophore conoid. 
A. procumbens, Linn.; DC. Prodr. x. 146; Lamk. Ill. t. 94; Engl. 
Bot. t. 661; Sibth. Fl. Gr. t. 17 7; Reichb. Fl. Germ. t. 1827; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 
iv. 275. 
PuxzAn and Kasur, alt. 1-7000 ft. ; extending to 13,000 ft. in WESTERN TIBET 
and the Karakorum; a weed especially near cultivation, Thomson, &c. —DIsTRIB. 
Europe, N. Africa, W. Central and N. Asia. 
Spreading, 1-2 ft., branched. Leaves 1-23 in. Flowers lin. diam., purplish-blue 
or white; calyx-lobes in flower, 3, in., oblong. Nutlets A in. ; calyx in fruit } in. 
diam., reticulately-nerved ; lobes large, triangular. 
18. MICROULA, Benth. 
An almost stemless, scabrous-pubescent herb. Radical leaves elliptic-spathu- 
late, rosulate. Cymes dense, many-fld., subsessile among the leaves, bracteate. 
Flowers small, sessile. Calyx campanulate ; lobes 5, ciliate. Corolla-tube short, 
throat with 5 scales; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, 
included ; anthers ovate-oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style short, 
stigma small capitate. Nutlets 4, or fewer, ovoid-oblong, dorsally compressed, 
attached by a small scar above their middle. 
M. Benthami, Clarke. 
WESTERN TiskT, alt. 15-17,000 ft.; Parang Pass, Thomson; Kyoongar Pass, 
Strachey & Winterbottom. . 
Root long, vertical, crowned by a tuft of leaves longer than the inflorescence ; but 
one example has a stem of 3 in., with inflorescence as in Eritrichium. Leaves 3 in. 
towers 1—Y in, diam. — Nutlets lin. backs diamond-shaped, scabrous with subsessile 
glochidid, ^ 
19. BOTHRIOSPERMUM, Bunge. 
Weak herbs, annual or biennial, strigose or hirsute. Leaves alternate, ovate 
or lanceolate. Flowers small, blue or white, axillary, pedicelled, the upper 
going off into a bracteate raceme. Calyx 5-partite ; lobes narrow, not (or 
scarcely) enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube short, throat with 5 scales; lobes 5, 
imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included ; anthers ovate, 
obtuse, Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style short, stigma capitate. Nutlets 4, 
ellipsoid, without angles, granular-scabrid ; scar near the middle of the inner 
ace, large, hollow, smooth, with an inflexed margin; carpophore oblong.— 
Species 2 or 3; from N. India to Amurland. 
B. tenell Fisch. § Mey. Ind. Sem. 1835, 24; adpressedly hispid, 
leaves ovate-laneeolate d petioled, pedicels axillary as long as the ca 3 x, 
Sa Of the nutlets elliptic longitudinal DC. Prodr. x. 116. B. asperugoides, 
Sieb. §& Zuce, Fam. Nat. Jap. ù. 26. Anchusa tenella, Hornem. ; Roem. 5 Sch. 
Syst, iv. 100. A. zeylanica, Jacq. f. Ecl. i. 47, t. 29. Cynoglossum di usum, 
ne Fl. Ind. ed. Carey §& Wall. i. 7; Wall. Cat. 925, ` C. prostratum, Don 
r. 100, 
