Mertensia. | C. BORAGINEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 171 
Stems 3 in. densely leafy below. Leaves 4 by d in. narrowed at both ends; 
petiole short or very broad.  Pedunclel in.  Raceme in flower 4 in. ; pedicels 45 in. 
Calyz-lobes 3 in., narrowly oblong. Corolla } in. diam. Anthers subexsert, over- 
topping the small scales. Style lin. Fruit unknown. 
Van. Tanneri; leaves 2 in, linear-spathulate, calyx-lobes } in., corolla violet- 
purple, tube 4 in. long.—Gilgit and Astor, Col. Tanner. This looks like a distinct 
species, but there is only a fragment (in flower). 
,9. M. tibetica, Clarke; hispid, leaves small subradical long-petioled 
elliptic, peduncles long subscapose, corolla-tube 4-2 in. five times as long as the 
calyx, anthers included, scales in the corolla-throat large. 
Western TrsBET ; Karakorum, alt. 14-16,000 ft., Clarke. 
Leaves all subradical, % by i in., petiole 1 in. Peduncles 2-4 in. ; racemes 1-4 in.; 
pedicels 2 in. Sepals } in. narrowly oblong; in fruit } in. Corolla-tube elongate- 
funnel-shaped, 4 in. wide in the throat; lobes d in. and upwards, subquadrate ; scales 
half as long as the lobes, obtuse, emarginate; anthers entirely below the scales. 
Style iin. Nutlets as of M. moltkioides. 
6. M. racemosa. Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 857; minutely hairy, radical 
leaves long-petioled ovate cauline ovate to lanceolate, racemes lax few-flowered, 
€orolla-tube half as long again as the calyx. Myosotis racemosa, Benth. in 
Royle Ill. 305. M. longiflora, Wall. Cat. 929; A. DC. Prodr. x. 113. Litho- 
Spermum ovalifolium, Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 119, t. 124. Eritrichium 
nemorosum, 4. DC. l.c. 123. Anchusa racemosa, DC. Prodr. x. 50. 
Temperate Western HIMALAYA, alt. 7-10,000 ft. ; Gurwhal and Kumaon, frequent 
near Simla; Royle, Munro, Madden, &c. l 
Stems 3-8 in., weak, nearly glabrous. Radical leaves 1-1} in., often suborbicular, 
obtuse, base sometimes cordate; petiole 1-4 in.; cauline similar, smaller, often 
nearly all petioled. Racemes subsessile, i.e. bracteate at the base ; pedicels attaining 
1.3 In. Sepals 3, in., linear; in fruit } in., villous. Corolla 1-$ in. diam. ; tube 
$ in., scales in the throat prominent; anthers below the scales. Style j—3 in. Nutlets 
as of. M. moltkioides. 
25, MOLTEIA, Len. 
Corolla abbreviated with small erect lobes hardly overtopping the calyx. 
nthers long exsert on filiform filaments. Otherwise as Mertensia. 
M. parviflora, Clarke; minutely hairy, leaves linear-oblong, racemes 
Peduncled dense scorpioid ebracteate. Craniospermum parviflorum, Dene. in 
Yacquem. Voy. Bot. 126, t. 130; A. DC. Prodr. x. 175. 
Kasumir, alt. 6-8000 ft.; Thomson, Aitchison.—Distrip. Cabul. u 
Rootstock woody ; annual stems 3-10 in., suberect, with sometimes a long trailing 
Stem added. Leaves 2 by iin. BRacemes 1-2 in., dense, sometimes forked ; pedicels 
0- in. Calyx-lobes 4 in., narrowly oblong; in fruit i in. rather wider. Corolla 
without scales in the throat. Filaments exsert à in. Style j in. Nutlets ovoid- 
oblong, acute, smooth, shining; scar small at the base on the inner side.—All the 
other species of Moltkia have bracteate racemes. Nutlets altogether of Mertensia, 
and the plant hardly differs from M. echioides but in the abbreviated corolla and 
"d filaments, Craniospermum has exsert anthers but is remote in habit and in 
e fruit, 
26. TRIGONOTIS, Seo. 
less hairy. Leaves alternate, 
pid or the lower 
in fruit 
o Perennial herbs, weak or diffuse, 
vate or lanceolate, mostly petioled. Racemes lax, ebracteate, or 
Pedicels bracteate, or many pedicels axillary. Calyx 5-fid, or 5-partite, 
