202 BoraginCCB. \Cynoglossu7n^ 



pubescent beneath, upper ones smaller; ped. slender, hispid,, 

 nodding ; cal. hispid, produced at back between the bases of 

 segm. into 5 long acute spurs, segm. narrowly lanceolate^ 

 acute; cor. ^-f in. diam., lobes triangular, acute; cone of 

 anth. large, very pointed, pubescent ; fruit ovoid, achenes 

 \ in., ovoid, smooth and polished on back, cancellated on 

 inner surface next the axis, nearly white. 



A weed in cultivated and waste ground in the dry region ; rather rare.^ 

 Trincomalie (Glenie) ; Jaffna, abundant. Fl. Jan., Feb. ; very pale 

 violet-blue. 



Also in India, Cabul, Persia, and in Mauritius. 



There is no specimen in Hermann's Herb. 



2. T. zeylanicum, Br. Prod. 496 (1810). 



Burm. Thes. 48. Borago seyiattica, Burm. Fl. Ind. 41. Moon Cat. 13. 

 Thw. Enum. 216. C. P. 1888. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 154. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 14, f. 2 (poor). Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4820. 



Stem 1-2 ft., erect, stout, with ascending branches in 

 upper part, sparingly hispid with long hair ; 1. 2-4 in., 

 narrowly lanceolate-oblong, acute at both ends, hispid with 

 pustular hairs above, finely pubescent (with a few pustular 

 hairs on veins) beneath ; fl. numerous, ped. long, slender^ 

 with long spreading hair, nodding, opp. the large bracts ; 

 cal. softly hairy or silky, without spurs at base, segm, very 

 deep, long, linear-lanceolate, very acute ; cor. rather over 

 f in. diam.; fruit ovoid-rotund, achenes broadly ovoid, 

 polished and dark grey on back, slightly irregular on inner 

 surface. 



Low country, and up to 4000 ft. by roadsides, but principally in the: 

 dry and intermediate region; common. Fl. Nov.-March; pale bright 

 blue. 



Also in India, Malaya, Australia, and Mascarene Islands. 



8. CYNOG-I.OSSUBX, L. 



Perennial herb, 1. alt., fl. rather small, in very long simple 

 or bifid .scorpioid cymes without bracts; cal.-scgm. imbricate; 

 cor. rotate, tube short, broad, the throat half closed by 5 

 bilobed scales, lobes 5, rounded, imbricate ; stam. 5 very 

 small, inserted in cor.-tube, included ; style short, stout ; 

 fruit of 4 one-seeded achenes attached to a central axis, and 

 covered with numerous glochidiate prickles. — Sp. 60 ; 10 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



