Onosma. ] C. BORAGINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 179 
without, a ring of hairs at the base within, purple (?). Anthers included, filaments 
linear. — Nu/lets 2 in., acute. 
5. O. bicolor, Wall. Cat. 939; hispid, cauline leaves spathulate-oblong 
uppermost elliptic sessile, racemes small divided, calyx-lobes ! in. lanceolate, 
corolla 4 in. tubular purple, nutlets obscurely minutely rough. Maharanga 
bicolor, 4. DC. Prodr. x. 71. 
CENTRAL and Eastern HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim at Lachen, alt. 
10,000 ft.; J. D. H. 
Stems 12-18 in., suberect, patently hispid. Cauline leaves 21 by 4 in., subobtuse, 
much narrowed at the base, hispid with tubercle-based hairs above, whiter more 
silky beneath. Cymes 1-2 in. ; bracts 4 in., linear; pedicels in. Calyx-tube j in. 
Corolla -& in. diam., hairy without, purple. Azthers included ; filaments linear not 
dilated downwards. Nutlets i5 in. ovoid, scarcely acute. 
Sect. 2. Maharanga. Calyx-tube distinct, widened in fruit. Corolla 
ventricose, distinctly narrowed at the mouth. Filaments very much dilated 
downwards, 
6. O. Emodi, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 11, not Wall. 
Cat.; hispid, leaves oblanceolate, calyx-lobes a little shorter than the corolla- 
tube, in fruit spreading broad-lanceolate. O. vestitum, Wall. Cat. 937. Maha- 
ranga Emodi, 4. DC. Prodr. x. 71. 
ALPINE Hmaraya, alt. 10-13,000 ft.; Gurwhal, Strachey § Winterbottom; Nepal, 
Wallich ; Sikkim, frequent. .. . 
Stems 6-18 in., suberect, patently hairy. Cauline leaves attaining 6 by $ in., 
subobtuse, hispid on both surfaces; uppermost 2 in., elliptic, sessile. Flowers capitate 
or in fruit cymose ; bracts j in., narrowly lanceolate; pedicels 0-1 in. Calyx 4 in. 
diam. in fruit, lobes hardly twice as long as the tube, with long white hairs within. 
Corolla 3 in., minutely hairy, purple. Anthers included. Style exsert. Nutlets } in., 
muricate, tubercular. 
7. O. Wallichianum, Benth in Gen. Pl.ii. 864; hispid, leaves spathu- 
late lanceolate, calyx less than half the length of the corolla, lobes in fruit acutely 
lanceolate from a triangular base. O. Emodi, Wall. Cat. 940. Maharanga 
Wallichiana, 4, DC. Prodr.x.71. > 
Nera; Wallick, a 
This is perhaps as Wallich estimated it, a mere form of O. Emodi, which is a very 
Variable plant. Corolla, stamens, filaments and nutlets are the same. 
Order CI. CON VOLVULACEIE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 
Herbs or shrubs, often twining, very rarely trees. Leaves alternate, exstipu- 
late, In Cuscuta Q. Cymes l- or more-flowered ; bracteate. Flowers regular, 
ermaphrodite, often showy, 5- (rarely 4-) merous. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, 
Persistent, sometimes much enlarged in fruit. Corolla campanulate or pe 
pa , rarely subrotate ; limb shortly or deeply lobed, often 5-plaited ae e 
0. - Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong, dehiscing longitud; " y. 
vary Superior, often surrounded by an annular disc, of 2 carpels, dos e or 
7 false issepiments 4-celled; style 1 rarely 2, stigma capitate 2 lobe or " 
ranched ; ovules 9 in each carpel, sessile, erect, anatropous. Fruit in H ucan 
S 2-^-valved or cireumsciss or breaking up irregularly, 4-2 rarely " ded. 
3:5 erect, albumen 0 or scanty ; cotyledons generally plaited, rarely flat ; 
cle next the hilum.— Species 800, more abundant in warm regions. 2 
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