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CYNOGLOSSUM anchusoides. 

 Bugloss-jloivered Houndstonguc. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Boraginace.e. 



CYNOGLOSSUM. Botanical Register, vol. 1 84 l./o/. 27. 



C. anchusoides ; albopubescens, foliis ratlicalibus lanceolatis longc petiolatis 

 caulinis lincari-lanceolatis sessilibus, panicula laxa, ramis eloiigatis apice 

 nudiusculis, sepalis linearibus obtusis tomeutosis tubo coroUrc sequali- 

 bus, limbo corollae tubo requali, limbo campanulato, foriiicibus elongatis 

 apice obtusti trilobis, staminibus fornicibus oequalibus, acliseniis lappa- 

 ceis disco muricatis. 



A hardy perennial, growing well in rich garden soil, and 

 flowering freely in July and August. It is easily increased 

 from seeds sown in the ordinary way, but the plants will not 

 flower before the second season. 



It was raised from seeds received from the East India 

 Company, said to have been collected either in Cashmere or 

 Thibet, and presented to the Horticultural Society, in whose 

 garden our drawing was made in May, 1841. 



In the general appearance of the flowers this plant has 

 quite the appearance of an Anchusa ; but its fruit is that of 

 Cynoglossum ; surrounded with numerous stifl^barbed spines, 

 and merely rough with hard sharp points on the disk. In 

 this respect they are however variable, some of the nuts being 

 merely muricated. 



The valves which occupy the orifice of the tube of the 

 corolla (fig. 1.) are unusually long, and distinctly 3-lobed at 

 the point ; they hide the stamens which stand just within 

 them, and are completely clear of the tube. 



We cannot recommend this species as very ornamental ; 

 but it is interesting to those who cultivate rare hardy herba- 

 ceous plants. 



