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downwards below the point of attachment (so that the 

 scar is near the top) and being covered with short hooked 

 spines. 



Species 60, in temperate and sub-tropical climates. 



Cynoglossum furcatum Wall., Cat. 919!; RB.I. iv 

 155, X I ; Houndstongue. Stem I to 2^ feet. Leaves 

 2 by J^ inch ; lower larger to 4 inches, upper smaller ; 

 hardly stalked, lanceolate or elliptic, acute. Spikes 

 several together terminating the stem and branches, 

 curled back in bud and in flower short (like a Forget- 

 me-not), but in fruit lengthened to 6 or 8 inches; 

 diverging from the stem at about half a right angle. 

 Corolla rotate, blue or pink ; lobes five, each with a basal 

 emarginate or two-lobed scale. Fruits at intervals of 

 J^ to I inch, facing downwards: sepals J^ inch very 

 obtuse, ciliate : nutlets % inch, covered all over with 

 hooked spines, t. 195. 



Pulneys : on the open downs, flowering May and June. 

 Nilgiris and Anamalais, down to much lower levels. Jyson 298, 

 Gen. Dist. Mountains of India. 



Owing to the lengthening of the spikes as the nutlets mature 

 the flowering and fruiting appearance of the plant are very 

 different. 



I find two forms which may possibly be varieties. 



a leaves elliptic quite entire softly hairy. This is possibly the form 

 Clarke in F.B.I, refers to as common on the Nilgiris Wall. 919 (Bababoodun 

 Nepal). Fyson 298. Boiirue 7, 2975. ' 



b leaves obscurely crenulate, scabrid with hairs on tuberculate bases. 

 Fyson 1843. Possibly Clarke's var lanceolata, but not Wallich's Cat. 919" 



CONVOLVULACE/E. § Convolvulece. 



Twiners, chiefly characterised by the funnel-shaped 

 lobeless corolla, which in bud is folded in along five 

 lines and then twisted so that when it is open the five 

 areas exposed in bud are of a darker colour. Stamens 

 five, attached to the base of the corolla with oblong 

 anthers dehiscing by slits. Ovary superior of two carpels, 



