T a5: 7520; 
PARACARYUM HELIOCARPUM. 
Native of the Western Himalaya. 
Nat: Ord. BoracinEx.—Tribe BoraGea. 
Genus Paracaryum, Boiss.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 849.) 
ParacaryuMm heliocarpum; elatum, cano-pubescens, foliis radicalibus longe 
petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acutis triplinerviis, caulinis oblongis 
lanceolatisve sessilibus, foribus subpaniculatim cymosis, cymis elongatis 
gracilibus demum dissitifloris apicibus decurvis, pedicellis gracilibus, 
calycis lobis oblongis obtusis tubo corolle squilongis, corolle tubo 
brevi, limbi campanulati lobis brevibus orbiculatis oblatisve azureis, 
antheris linearibus, fornicibus, inclusis elongatis ciliolatis apice 3-lobis 
quent stamina altius insertis, stylo gracili elongato, nuculis orbiculatis 
orso depressis echinulatis marginibus incurvis pectinatim glochidiatis. 
P. heliocarpum, Kerner in Rev. Naturw. Vers. Innsbruck, vol, i. (1870) p. 105, 
(Nov. Pl. Sp. ii. p.9.) Clarke in Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 161. 
P. anchusoides, Benth. §& Hook. f. ex Aitchis, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. 
(1881) 80. 
Cynoglossum anchusoides, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. vol. xxviii. (1842) t.14. DC. 
Prodr, vol. x. p. 151. 
C. Emodi, Schouw Ind. Sem. Hafn Coll. (1846) 4. 
C. Emodun, Schouw. in Linnea xxiv. (1850) 160. 
C. macrostylum, Bunge Relig. Lehm. (1847) 236. 
Lindolfia anchusoides, Lehm. in Linnea, vol. xxiv. (1851) p. 216. 
Echinospermum, No. 1, Herb. Strachey & Winterbottom. 
The genus Paracaryum is distinguished from the 
typical species of Cynoglossum by the nutlets of the fruit 
being more erect on the gynobase, and their bases not 
being rounded or subacute, characters of scarcely appre- 
ciable value, and which may probably disappear on a 
revision of the genera of Boraginex, in which case the — 
_ original name of Cynoglossum anchusoides will be restored 
_ for this plant. 
__ P. heliocarpum was introduced into the Gardens of the 
Royal Horticultural Society by seed sent from the North- 
Western Himalaya in 1840, but had long since disappeared 
from cultivation. It ranges over a wide extent of mountain 
country, at elevations of 7000 to 11,000 ft., from Lahul 
and Kashmir northwards to Tibet, westward into Affghan- 
istan, and as far east as the Tibetan region north of 
Fepruaky lst, 1897. 
