292 BORAGINACE.E. 



less erect and connivent : spurs ^i to J^ inch, curved 



upwards, obtuse. Ovary ^ inch, narrowed upwards 



into the %-inch style. " Seeds 1/24 inch " (Clarke). 



In shady places, by sholas, etc. Flowers in autumn months. 

 Pulneys : at 7,500 feet on the downs. Nilgiris : flowers in 

 November. Fpon 401, 1228. Bourne 161 4, 5201. 



I am unable to distinguish this from H. elliptica Don^ a Himalayan 

 plant, but Clarke in F.B.I, says style longer and seeds much smaller. 



BORAGINACE/E. 



Herbs (shrubs or trees) hispid or scabrid, with alter- 

 nate, mostly entire, simple leaves and small perfectly 

 regular flowers arranged in two rows along one side of 

 slender forked spikes (scorpioid cymes), peculiar in being 

 curled up backwards, crozier-wise, in bud with the flowers 

 facing outwards, and upwards as they open, and in 

 having no bracts, or a bract opposite to, not subtending, 

 each short pedicel. Flowers with five-toothed calyx : 

 five-lobed monopetalous corolla, imbricate in bud, and 

 with the throat of the tube more or less closed with 

 scales : five stamens attached to the corolla tube and 

 alternating with the lobes : and a two-celled ovary with 

 two ovules in each cell, and peculiar in being as a rule 

 deeply divided into four lobes (so that the style rises 

 up in the centre between them), each of which becomes 

 in fruit a nutlet containing an erect seed : but in some 

 genera the ovary only slightly notched in two lobes (as 

 Heliotrope) or entire and the fruit fleshy. 



Species about 1,200 all over the world. 



In Europe the tribe borage.^ (with the fruit of four nutlets) is well 

 represented: e.g. anchusa, myosotis, lithospermum, cynoglossum. 



CYNOGLOSSUM. f.b.i. 100 x. 



Houndstongiie. 

 Herbs with the characteristics of the BORAGES (see 

 above) and distinguished by the nutlets being extended 



