Tab. 6987. 

 onosma ptramidalis. 



Native of the Western Himalaya. 



Nat. Ord. Boeagine.e. — Tribe Borages. 

 Genus Onosma, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 864.) 



080SiiA.pyramidalis ; tota hispide hirsuta,foliis radiealibus nnmerosissimis rosulatis 

 anguste lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis uninerviis, caule florente robusto ascen- 

 dente pyramidatim ramoso foliaceo-bracteato bracteis ad basin ramorum sessili- 

 bus lanceolatis 3-nerviis, ramis apices versus nutantes floriferis, floribus 

 confertis pedicellatis pendulis, bracteis floriferis linearibus calyci subaequilongis, 

 sepalis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis demum patentibus, corolla ellipsoidea 

 ventricosa calyci subaequilonga tereti puberula coccinea basi intus annulo 

 piloso instructa, ore contracto, dentibus minutis late triangularibus recurvis, 

 squamis subquadratis truncatis barbatis, filaraentis basin fere corollse insertis 

 filiformibus, antheris elongatis puberulis basi breviter 2-fidis et cohaerentibus, 

 connectivo in appendicera breviusculam linearem truncatam producto, stigmate 

 integerrimo. 



This fine plant, if not the type of a distinct genns, must 

 stand by itself in the genns Onosma, from the other species 

 of which it differs in the stamens inserted almost at the 

 very base of the corolla, and in the minute entire stigma. 

 The fruit is unfortunately unknown, but the nucules of the 

 advanced ovary appear in no way to differ from those of 

 an Onosma ; and there is no appearance of the sepals en- 

 larging after flowering. From all the previously described 

 Indian species 0. pyramidalis differs in its size and pyra- 

 midally branched leafy habit, in the calyx cleft to the base 

 into very narrow segments and with no tube at all, and 

 the characters given above. It most closely resembles the 

 0. bicolor, Benth., which has a similarly formed corolla, 

 but is a very slender species, in which the cauline leaves 

 are narrowed into a petioled base and the stamens inserted 

 by very short filaments half-way up the corolla-tube. It 

 is a very handsome plant, conspicuous for the bright scarlet 

 of the flowers, which turn of a mauve purple as they 

 wither. 



Seed of 0. pyramidalis were brought in 1885 by J. F. 

 Duthie, Esq., F.L.S., Superintendent of the Government 



mabch 1st, 1888. 



