168 c. BoRAGINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Gastrocotyle. 
Throughout N. Inp1a, alt. 0-4000 ft., from the foot of the N.W. Himalaya and 
Jubbulpore to Buoran and Kuasia ; not common.—Distris. Amurland, Japan, China, 
with neighbouring islands, (Mauritius introduced). . . 
Usually prostrate or diffuse, 1-2 ft. with elongate branches and distant axillary 
flowers; sometimes suberect 3-6 in. with erect, close racemes, Leaves 1 by ii in., 
subacnte. Calyx-lobes in fruit }-ẹ in., lanceolate or linear. Corolla 3 in. diam., 
white. Nutlets 35-4 in. ; scar more than half their length. 
20. GASTROCOTYLE, Bunge. 
A hispid, diffuse herb. Leaves alternate, oblong, lowest spathulate or 
petioled. Flowers small, axillary, solitary and shortly pedicelled, or in dense 
small, axillary racemes. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube short, closed with scales ; 
lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included ; anthers 
ovate, obtuse. Ovary 4-lobed ; style short, stigma subcapitate. MNutlets 4, or 
fewer, ovoid, erect, incurved ; scar on the inner face, near their middle, oblong, 
longitudinal, elevated, margined ; carpophore half as long as the nutlets; apex. 
with 4 ridges. 
G. hispida, Bunge Rel. Lehm. 405. Anchusa hispida, Forsk. Fl. Æg- 
Arab, 40; DC. Prodr. x. 50; Boiss. F Orient. iv. 158. 
PcwsaB, alt. 1000 ft.; Thomson, &c.—DisrgRiB. From Egypt to Beloochistan, 
Cabul, and Soongaria. - 
Leaves 1-2 in. Calyx-lobes 4-3 in., coarsely hispid. Corolla } in. diam. Nutlets 
4-2 in. rugose, minutely papillose between the wrinkles, undistinguishable from 
those of Lycopsis. 
21. ANCHUSA, Linn. 
Hispid or bristly herbs. Leaves alternate. Cymes dichotomous, or racemes 
unilateral, terminal ultimately elongate. Calyx deeply 5-fid, not (or scarcely) 
enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube straight, long or short, closed with scales; lobes 
5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included ; anthers oblong, 
obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style filiform, stigma small. Nutlets 4, ovoid, 
conoid, sessile on a flat receptacle ; scar basal, concave, margined.—Species 30; 
Europe, Africa, and W. Asia. 
A. italica, Retz, is said to grow in Kashmir (DC. Prodr. x. 47); but it is almost 
certainly a cultivated plant, and the specimens, which were in Royle’s Herbarium, 
were very probably from the Saharunpur Garden. 
A. sik is, Clarke; erect, tall, bristly, leaves petioled elliptic or 
oblong, cymes short bracteate forming a terminal panicle, corolla-tube shortiy 
exceeding the sepals, 
ALPINE Srxxrm, alt. 11..12,000 ft., Lachen and Latong, J. D. H. 
Stem 2-3 ft. Cauline leaves 21 by 1 in., subacute ; petiole 4 in. Calyz-lobes 
js in., narrow. Corolla i-i in. diam., blue. Nutlets not ripe, dorsally compresse": 
backs diamond-shaped, scabrous ; scar very small.—The nutlets are exceedingly like 
those of Microula, and do not agree well with those of Anchusa; but the habit ! 
altogether that of Anchusa sempervirens, &c. Mr. Bentham has referred the species 
to Anchusa, and it had better remain here till good fruit is obtained ; to remove it to 
Mieroula would require the characters of that genus to be considerably modified. 
22. D'Y COPSIS, Linn. 
Annual, hispid herbs. Leaves alternate. Flowers small, blue purple OT 
white; racemes bracteate, terminal. Sepals 5, linear. Corolla-tube curv 
