Tas. 5137. 
MYOSOTIDIUM NoBILe. 
Antarctic Forget-me-not. 
Nat. Ord. BoraGINE.£.—PENTANDRIA MonoGyYnia. 
Gen. Char. Myosotrprum, Hook. Nov. Gen. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla 
hypogyna, hypocrateriformi-rotata, tubo brevi, fauce fornicibus quinque clausis, 
limbo 5-lobo, laciniis latis obtusis patentibus, sinubus plicatis. Stamina 5, 
paulo intra faucem inserta; filamentis brevibus. Ovarium quadrilobum, lobis 
apice plano-depressis. Fructus subpyramidatus. Nuces 4, dorso compresse, 
leves, glabra, erectz, late alato-marginate, receptaculo 4-angulari affixe ; ale 
rectiuscule, undulatee.—Herba insulis Nove-Zelandie “ Chatham Islands”? dictis 
habitans, subsucculenta ; radice perenni ; foliis inferioribus amplis, longe petiolatis, 
cordatis, ylabris, parallelo-venosis, superioribus sessilibus, omnibus glabris, nitidis. 
Corymbus amplus, multiflorus ; pedunculis ante anthesin scorpioideis. Flores (in 
ordine) majusculi, purpureo-cerulet. 
Cynogiossum nobile. J. D. Hook. in Gard. Chron. 1858, p. 240. 
This very lovely Boragineous plant, which cannot fail to call 
to mind the favourite Forget-me-nots of Europe, is an inhabitant 
of Chatham Islands, off New Zealand, S. Lat. 44°, whence it 
was introduced to Europe through the medium of Mr. Watson, 
of St. Alban’s, by whom a living flowering plant was exhibited 
at a meeting of the Horticultural Society of London, in March, 
1858, and attracted much attention. With the inflorescence of 
a Myosotis, it has a fruit which, in the state of ovary,. induced 
Dr. Hooker to refer the plant to Cynoglossum : but the fruit is 
quite different from the characters of both, approaching Ompha- 
‘odes in the winged achenia or nuts, yet differmg in the nature 
of that wing, not being in any way introflexed, nor are the nuts 
attached to the style, as in that genus. Its foliage is quite un- 
like any species of those genera, and we think it may justly be: - 
considered a new genus, ranking very near the Forget-me-nots. 
The whole stock of this choice plant is (we believe) in the posses- 
sion of Mr. Standish, who sent the plant here figured to us m 
April, 1829. 
Drscr. Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, a foot to a foot and 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1859. 
