458 TF.NTANDIUA MONOCiVNIA. BoTLHJO. 



tube of the corol. Style short, clavate. Stigma emargmate. 

 Seeds rough, round, almost hid in the calyx, affixed to a 

 very short columnar receptacle. 



BORAGO. Schreb. gen. N. 248. 

 Corol rotate. Throat closed with rays. 



1. B. indica. R. Willd. sp. i. 776. 



Annual, diffuse. Leaves sub-sagittate, s '.em-clasping, the 

 lower ones opposite. Flowers solitary, drooping. Calyx 

 conical, -with five hornlets behind. 



Betty. Chhota ktelpa. 



Common over most parts of India, producing flowers ?nd 

 ripe seed the greatest part of the year. 



Root fibrous, annual. Stem scarcely any, but many di- 

 chotomous, hairy, spreading branches of about a foot in 

 length. The lower leaves opposite ; the upper ones alternate, 

 all sessile, stem-clasping, sub-sagittate, entire, hairy. Pe- 

 duncles opposite to, or between the leaves, drooping, hairy, 

 one-flowered. Flowers pale blue. Calyx five-parted, with 

 the fissures extended into five recurved hornlets ; divisions 

 adhering by their margins, giving to the whole a conical 

 shape. Corol a little longer than the calyx; divisions cor- 

 date with filiform apices. Anthers united into a firm, taper 

 cone over the mouth of the tube of the corol. 



2. B. zeylanica. Willd. sp. i. 777. 



Annual, erect, ramous, strigose. Cauline leaves opposite, 

 sub-sessile, lanceolate; floral ones alternate with the solitary, 

 one-flowered, drooping - peduncles. 



A native of various parts of India. Flowering time the 

 cold season. 



Root annual. Stem erect, branches opposite, round, joint- 

 ed, hispid with numerous sharp, stiffbristles of two sizes; the 

 larger inserted on coloured glandular elevations; the height 



