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CYNOGLOSSUM loiigiflorum. 

 Long-flowered Hounds-tongue. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. Ord. BORAGINACE^. 



CYNOGLOSSUM. Botanical Register, 1839./o^ 36. 



C. longijlormn (Royle mss.); pilosum, foliis oblongis acuminatis superioribus 

 basi cordato-amplexicaulibus, racemis ebracteatis, calycis laciniis tubo 

 corollee dupl6 bi-evioribus, nucibus marginatis : aculeis uniserialibus 

 paucisque sparsis. Bentham in RoyWs Illnstr. p. 305. 



Of this fine species of Hounds-tongue the characteristic 

 marks are derived in part from the great length of the tube 

 of the corolla, and in part from the elongation of the pro- 

 cesses which rise up from the mouth of the corolla, and 

 alternate with the stamens. They are as long as the project- 

 ing filaments, curved inwards and emarginate at the apex, 

 and hollow, which latter circumstance renders it probable that 

 they are mere folds of the corolla and not abortive stamina. 



According to Brown (Prodr. p. 495) the species with 

 projecting stamens are to be excluded from the genus ; and 

 if so, this plant is not a Cynoglossum. But the fruit is that 

 of the latter genus, not of Anchusa, to which I presume the 

 species must otherwise be referred. 



This is a very pretty hardy perennial, growing about a 

 foot and a half high, if planted in any good garden soil, and 

 flowering freely from the end of May to the beginning of 

 August. 



It is increased by seeds or divisions of the roots ; but by 

 seeds is the best way, as they are produced abundantly ; how- 

 ever the plants so raised will not flower before the second 

 season after sowing. 



