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1 . Cynoglossum denticulatum, var. zeylanica, C. B. Clarice, 

 in Hool: f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1883) p. 157. Annual, erect, branched, 

 1-2 ft. high ; stem and branches more or less angular, the older clothed 

 with spreading, the young branches with appressed hairs. Leaves l|-3 by 

 |— 1 in. (larger when grown in cultivated ground), lanceolate, usually 

 acute, clothed above with stiff short hairs arising from small bulbous bases 

 which are white when dry, usually appressed-hairy beneath, with ciliate 

 and more or less subdenticulate margins, base narrowed and decurrent ; 

 nerves strong and densely hairy on the lower side ; petioles of the lower 

 leaves sometimes reaching 1 in. long, those of the upper leaves very 

 short, obscure, or 0. Flowers distant in terminal and axillary ebracteate 

 racemes 6-8 in. long, the racemes usually in pail's when terminal, often 

 simple when axillary ; pedicels distinct all along the raceme, short, 

 filiform. Calyx at flowering time ^ in. long, softly hairy ; lobes -^ in. 

 long at flowering time, enlarged to about g in. in fruit, ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, ciliate, with a strong midrib conspicuous on the inner face. 

 Corolla ^ in. long; lobes about ^ in. long, oblong or suborbicular, 

 rounded at the apex, tender. Anthers ^ in. long, oblong, the tips just 

 level with the top of the corolla-tube. Nutlets attached to the carpo- 

 phore for less than half their length, glochidiate all over, ovoid, 

 Jg-jlj in. long inside the margin, the margin deep, furnished on the 

 i-im witli long stout pricldes with a conspicuous head and with 5 or 6 

 small decurved hooks from the apex. Cijnoglossum canescens. Grab. Cat. 

 p. 135 (710^ of Willd.). 0. qlochidiatum, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 172 {not of 

 Wall.). C. lanceolatum, Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 170 (not of Forsk.). — Flowers : Oct.-Nov. Vebn. Lichardi. 



KoNKAN : in various parts, Dalzell. Deccan : Poona, a common weed, Woodrow ! ; 

 Koina valley below Mahablesliwar, Cooke \\ VkrgXvkt, BalzcU; Panchgani, Woodrow; 

 Khandala, Graham. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



Though named C. zeylanicum by Thuuberg the plant is not known in Ceylon, 



2. Cynoglossum Ritchiei, C. B. GlarTce, in Hool: f. FL B. L v. 4 

 (1883) p. 157. An erect slender annual 12-18 in. high; older stems 

 with spreading, the younger branches with appressed soft hairs. 

 Eadical leaves 3-3| by |-| in., with petioles 1-1| in. long; cauhne 

 leaves 1-1| by |-|ln., shortly petiolate or sessile, all lanceolate, acute, 

 hairy above with hairs usually springing from small bulbous bases which 

 are white when dry, base acute, narrowed. Flowers pale blue, in 

 terminal and axillary ebracteate, often forked racemes ; pedicels 

 slender, up to J in. long. Calyx softly hairy, yL in. long in flower, 

 enlarging to about g in. long in fruit ; segments ovate-oblong or linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla |-i- in. long ; lobes equalling the tube, 

 oblong, obtuse. Anthers ^Jg in. long, oblong, obtuse. Nutlets ^-i in. 

 long, attached to the carpophore by the upper half, not or scarcely 

 margined, glochidiate on all sides with headed prickles furnished with 

 several deflexed hooks. 



Belgaum, Ritchie, 493 ! 



There is but 1 specimen in Herb. Kew. marked as above. I have seen no others. — 

 Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



E.xcLUDED Species. 



CYNOGLOSSUM LANCEOLATUM, Forsk. Fl. iEgypt.-Arab. (1775) p. 41 {not of 

 Heyne). This has been given by Mr. C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 156, 

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