218 LXXXVII. BOEAGINACB^. 



as occurring in Eombay {Law) and Mr. Clarke cites C. micranthemum, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bo. Fl. p. 172, as a synonym. I have seen no specimens from Bombay ; there are 

 none in Herb. Kew. either from Bombay or from any part of India. The nutlets are 

 described in Fl. B. 1. 1. c. as not or obscurely margined. The nutlets of the species of 

 Ci/noc/lossum which is common in the Bombay Presidency have a very conspicuous 

 margin, and that plant is in my opinion Cynoqlos&um dentictdatum var. zeulanica, 

 C. B. Clarke. 



8. PARACARYUM, Boiss. 



Perennial or biennial hairy herbs. Leaves alternate. Flowers small, 

 blue or violet, pedicellate or subsessile, in elongate usually ebracteate 

 racemes sometimes laxly and widely paniculate. Calyx deeply 5-fid or 

 5-partite, not or rarely enlarged in fruit. Corolla infuudibuliform ; 

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

 imbricate, obtuse, short, erect or spreading. Stamens 5, inserted on 

 the corolla-tube ; filaments short ; anthers oblong, obtuse, included or 

 the tips sometimes slightly exserted. Ovary 4-lobed ; lobes distinct 

 from a flat receptacle ; ovules attached to the inner angle. Nutlets 4 

 (2 sometimes suppressed), depressed on the back, the face and inner 

 keel almost entirely attached to the whole conical or columnar carpo- 

 phore, their apices scarcely prominent and their bases hardly produced 

 downwards, usually girt with a membranous usually iuflexed, dentate, 

 crested or glochidiate (rarely entire) margin, the backs glochidiate 

 within the margin (except in P. Lamhertianum). — Disteib. !S. Europe, 

 W. and Central Asia ; species about 20. 



The difference between this genus and the genus CynoglosRiim is so slight and 

 ill-deflned that their separation is a matter of no small difllculty.- Sir J. D. Hooker 

 makes the following remarks on the subject [Bot. Mag. (1897) t. 7520] : " The genus 

 I'aracarywm is distinguished from the typical species of Cynoghssum by the nutlets of 

 the fruit being more erect on the gjnobase and their bases not being rounded or 

 subacute, characters of scarcely appreciable value and which may possibly disappear 

 on a revision of the genera of Boraginea ." 



Nutlets glochidiate. 



Stems red ; flowers pale blue wilh a darker centre 1. P. ccelcsfinum. 



Stems green; flowers dark blue, uniform in color without 



a darker centre .■ 2. P. inalahartcum. 



Nutlets not glochidiate 3. P. Lamhertianum, 



1. Paracaryum coelestinum, Benth. in Gen. PI. v. 2 (1876) 

 p. 850 (in adnot.). Erect, branched, 3-5 ft. high; stem and branches 

 red, the younger pubescent, the older glabrous. Leaves submem- 

 branous : radical very large reaching sometimes 9 by 7 in., broadly 

 ovate, acute, entire, wrinkled, with a few scattered hairs above, glabrous 

 except on the nerves beneath, deeply cordate at the base and with red 

 channelled petioles reaching nearly 1 ft. long ; lower cauline leaves 

 reaching 6 by 4 in., the leaves becoming smaller upwards, the upper 

 2-4 by ^-2 in., ovate, acute, cuneate at the base, more or less scabrid 

 on their npper surfaces with short hairs often arising from bulbous 

 bases, the lower surfaces usually glabrous except the nerves, the petioles 

 short, often ubscuie, gradually diininisliing upwards till the upper leaves 

 are sessile. Flowers in ebracteate, hairy, often twice-forked racemes ; 

 pedicels very short. Calyx ,^ in. long, softly hairy, slightly enlarged in 

 fruit; lobes ^ in. long, ovate, obtu.'^e, ciliate. Corolla \ in. long, pale 

 blue with a darker centre, often tinged with pink ; tube about equalling 

 the suborbici.lar spreading lobes; scales in the mouth of the tube 



