21G LWXYII, BORAGINACE.i:. 



Leaves opposite, g-S by ^-Ig in., ovate-oblong, acute, clothed like 

 the stem with prickly hairs from bulbous bases, base usually acute ; 

 petioles of the lower leaves sometimes reaching 1 in. long, the upper 

 leaves sessile. Elowers in many-flowered panicles ; pedicels 5-7 in. 

 long, filiform, densely clothed with long white hairs. Calyx clothed 

 with stiff white hairs which are often -^^ in. long, truncate, not cordate 

 nor hastate at the base when flowering, in fruit sometimes very slightly 

 cordate ; segments -\ in. long at flowering time, lanceolate, acute. Corolla 

 blue, with yellow throat and 5 purple spots ; tube jq— 8 "^' '0^^?' narrowly 

 canipanulate ; lobes i in. long (including a long acute apiculus), ovate- 

 deltoid. Cone of the anthers about ^ in. long, slightly pubescent on the 

 back ; anthers lanceolate, the produced connectives nearly as long as the 

 cells, twisted together at the apex. Ovary ovoid, tapering into the style ; 

 style slender, rather more than 4- in. long, glabrous ; stigma minute. 

 Nutlets ovoid, A- in. long, rugose on the inner, smooth on the outer face, 

 with a raised white spiny margin on the inner edge. ¥\. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 154 ; Aitch. Pb. & Siud PI. p. 97 : Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 4 (1879) 

 p. 280 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 170 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 80. — Flowers : Aug. 



Sind: Sfoc/iS, 57f)l; Thano-Bula-Khan, iroor7;-o!/) ; Laki, Woodrow. — Distrib. India 

 (Faiijab) ; Tropical and South Africa, Oabul, Persia, Arabia. 



7. CYNOGLOSSUM, Linn. 



Perennial or biennial erect hairy herbs. Leaves alternate, the radical 

 often with long petioles. Flowers in usually elongate, generally 

 ebracteate, sparingly branched or loosely paniculate racemes, bluish or 

 purple, ultimately distant, pedicelled or subsessile. Calyx 5-partite, 

 scarcely enlarged in fruit, patent or reflexed. Corolla distinctly veined; 

 tube short, the throat closed with obtuse or arched scales ; lobes 5, 

 imbricate, obtuse, patent. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube, 

 included beneath the scales; filaments short; anthers ovoid or shortly 

 oblong, obtuse. Ovary with 4 distinct lobes from an almost flat 

 receptacle ; ovules horizontal, attached to the inner angle of the cell ; 

 style short or long, usually persistent, rigid and sonr times split to the 

 base into lacinia^ deciduous with the nutlets. Fruit a depressed pyramid 

 formed of 4 nutlets adnate by their inner halves to a linear carpophore 

 with a shortly conic base, the nutlets rather convex or flat on the dorsal 

 side with or without an elevated margin, scarcely produced at the apex, 

 the base rounded or almost saccate, produced downwards. Seeds 

 straight or slightly curved; cotyledons wide, flat; radicle short. — 

 Distrib. Ti'opical or subtropical regions of both hemispheres, rare on 

 mountains in the Tropics ; species about GO. 



Kutlets with a deep margin 1. C. dent icul alum 



var. zeylaiuca. 

 Nutlets scarcely margined 2. C.Jiitchki. 



