Trigonotis. | C. BORAGINER. (C. B. Clarke.) 173 
..9. T. Hookeri, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 858; leaves elliptic acute hispid- 
villous, racemes lateral and terminal elongate ebracteate, calyx-lobes oblong 
acuminate hispid villous. 
Kuasta Mrs., alt. 5-6000 ft.; Moflong, H. f. 4 T. 
Stems 2 feet at least, stout, branched, patently hispid villous. Cauline leaves 2 
by 3-3 in., base obtuse; petiole 0-3 in. Racemes 3-6 in., often peduncled, axillary ; 
pedicels 2-3 in. Calya-lobes in fruit i-à in. Flowers i-i in. diam. Nutlets } in. 
diam.—This is an ennobled species of Trigonotis, much finer than the others, but the 
nutlets nearly as of T. ovalifolia. 
27. MYOSOTIS, Linn. 
Annual or perennial, hairy herbs. eaves alternate or densely crowded. 
Racemes elongate, ebracteate, or flowers subsessile and solitary in the penulti- 
mate axils. Calyx shortly or deeply 5-fid, hardly altered in fruit. Corolla blue, 
changing to red, or white, tube short, mouth closed with scales; lobes 5, twisted 
to the right in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included; anthers ovate, 
obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style filiform, stigma small. Nutlets 4, ovoid- 
oblong, longer than broad, shining, smooth, or hairy upwards ; scar basal, small ; 
receptacle flat.—Species 30; temperate regions of the N. hemisphere ; in Aus- 
tralia and New Zealand. 
Secr. I. Eumyosotis, A. DC. Weak herbs. Leaves distant. Racemes 
elongate, scorpioid. Nutlets glabrous. 
l. M. ceespitosa, Schultz Fl. Starb. ii. ll; hairs of stem adpressed, 
leaves oblong lowest spathulate, pedicels longer than the calyx, calyx-teeth 
triangular-lanceolate about as long as the tube adpressedly hairy. DC. Prodr. 
X. 105, with syn. ; Syme Engl. Bot. t. 1103 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 235. M. 
palustris, Benth. in Royle IU. 305, not exactly of With. M. lingulata, Lehm. 
Asperif. 110, name only. 
TEMPERATE and SUBALPINE HriwArAvA, from Kunawur to Kashmir and Baltis- 
than ; Royle, Falconer, Thomson.—DisrRrB. From Cabul to Siberia, Europe and N. 
ica, N. America. u . : 
. Stems 4-20 in. Leaves 1j by bin. Racemes 2-8 in. ; lower fruiting pedicels } 
In. and upwards. Calyx in fruit lin. sparsely minutely strigose; teeth scarcely 
acute. Corolla d in. diam. Style shorter than the calyx.—The name M. lingulata, 
m. is one year prior to M. cespitosa, Schultz; but Boissier and most authors do 
Dot consider the notice of the plant by Lehmann to be worthy the rank of a “ descrip- 
tion." 
2. M. sylvatica, Hoffm. Deutsch. Fl.i. 85; hairs of stem spreading, 
leaves oblong lowest petioled, pedicels longer than the calyx, calyx villous some 
of the hairs spreading at base, teeth lanceolate longer than the tube, corolla }- 
3 in. diam. limb flat. DC. Prodr. x. 107 with syn. ; Syme Engl. Bot. t. 1107 ; 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 237. M. montana, Besser; Fl. Dan. t. 583. M. pallens, 
Wall. Cat. 7019; DC. Lc. 112. 
ALPINE WESTERN HiMALAZA, alt. 7-12,000 ft., from Kumaon to Kashmir, frequent ; 
Wallich, &c.—DISTRIB. Europe; N. West Asia to the Canaries. . 
Stems 4.16 in. mostly erect, sparingly villous. Leaves 14 by 4 in., lowest 
Toader. Racemes 2-8 in. often divided; lower fruiting pedicels usually 4 in. or 
more, hardly longer than the calyx in Wallich’s M. pallens. Calyx in fruit 3-3 in., 
wth many ascending hairs and some patent from the base; teeth in fruit erect hardly 
nnivent, . 
3. M. arvensis, Hoffm. Deutsch. Fl. i. 85; hairs of stem spreading, 
leaves oblong lowest petio ed, pedicels longer than the calyx, calyx villous 
