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of the whole plant in a good soil from four to six, or even 

 eight feet. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, lanceolate, entire, 

 harsh, with a few stiff, scattered hairs. Floral leaves termi- 

 nal, alternate, small, sessile, cordate-lanceolate. Peduncles 

 sub-solitary, one-flowered, drooping*, sub-alternate, longer 

 than the floral leaves, round, hairy. Bractes no other than 

 the floral leaves. Flowers ccrnuous, pale blue. Calyx five- 

 leaved ; leaflets adhering- slightly near the base, and at their 

 adhesions forming five sharp ridges, but without the posterior 

 horns of Borago hidica; nor, like that plant, does it shut over 

 the seed, but becomes expanded. Corol ; decisions of the bor- 

 der broad-cordate, with their apices sub-filiform. Filaments 

 short, and thick, inserted on the mouth of the tube of the co- 

 rol. Anthers sagittate, woolly, each ending in a large twist- 

 ed thread ; sides firmly united into a conical dome over the 

 stigma. Seeds four, ovate, smooth on the outside, rough on 

 the inside, where lodged in the receptacle. 



3. B. spinulosa. R. 



Annual, diffuse, dichotomous, armed with depressed bris- 

 tles. All the leaves alternate, sessile, oblong, scabrous. Pe- 

 duncles leaf-opposed, one-flowered. 



A native of Bengal, appearing in the cold season. 



MENYANTHES. Schreb. gen. N. 263. 

 Calyx five-parted. Corol monopetalous, five-parted. Cap- 

 sule superior, one-celled. Seeds many, inserted on parietal 

 receptacles. 



1. M. cristata. R. Corom. 2. N. 105. 

 Petioles viviparous. Leaves round-cordate, repand. Nec- 

 tary triple; stigma two-cleft. 

 Cumuda. Asiat. Res, iv. 254. 

 Sans. Koomoodwtttee, Koomoodmee. 

 Tsjeroea-citambel. Rheed. Mai. II. p. 57. /. 29. 



