Tas. 5266, 
ARNEBIA Gidieevris: 
Grifith’s Arnebia. 
Nat. Ord. BoraGINrEx.—PENTANDRIA MonoeynIa. 
Gen, Char. Calyx fere 5-partitus, basi post anthesin subcampanulatus. Co- 
rola tubo elongato, infundibuliformis, fauce nuda, lobis subrotundis. Anthere 
tubo insert, inclusee. Stylus apice bifidus et stigmata ideo 2 subrotunda sepius 
subbifida et in massam subglobosam 4-lobam aggregata. Nucule ovate, basi 
truncate, imperforatee.—Herbz orientales, habitu Lithospermorum, sed stigmate 
dicephalo nunc 4-lobo distinete. De Cand. 
ARNEBIA Griffithii ; annua, radice verticale fusca, caulibus 1 pluribusve pumilis 
erectis simplicibus vel parce ramosis longe et dense albo-setosis strigosis, 
foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis basi (radicalibus) longe attenuatis utrinque 
setis brevibus tuberculo lato calcareo insidentibus hirsutis, floralibus anguste 
lanceolato-linearibus calyces eequantibus, spicis secundis densiusculis, calyce 
adpresse setoso fere ad basin usque in lacinias apice lineari-subulatas par- 
tito, corolle flavee tubo extus hirto calyce duplo longiori apice sensim in 
limbum hypocrateriformem ampliato, limbi lobis ovatis, antheris fauci obso- 
lete plicatulz insertis, stylo apice bipartito stigmatibus capitatis, nuculis . . . 
Boiss. 
Arnzsia Griffithii. Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Orient. Nov. Ser. 2. n. 2. p. 135. 
In 1860, General Perronet. Thompson, of Eliot Vale, Black- 
heath, was so good as to send to me seeds of a remarkable Bo- 
ragineous plant, from his son Lieut.-Colonel Thompson, com- 
manding the 7th Dragoon Guards at Seealkote; obtained from 
the Murree Hills, North-western India. The flowers of the 
plant sent with the seeds were evidently those of a Boragineous 
plant, of a rich orange or tawny-yellow, remarkable for five deep 
purple spots, “ understood to be the impression of the five fingers 
of the prophet Mahomet.” Some of these seeds eventually ger- 
minated, and the plant proved to be a species of Arnedia, first 
discovered in Cabul by the late Mr. Griffith, and lately described, 
from specimens in our herbarium, by M. Boissier, in the work 
above quoted. The genus Arnedia is closely allied to Litho- 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1861. 
