LxxxTii. boragixace.t;. 210 



notched at the apex. Anthers gV in. long, oblong, included ; fiLaments 

 short. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style yijv- in. long ; stigma small, capitate. 

 Fruit pyramidal ; nutlets 4, broadly ovate, acute, ^ in. long, with nearly 

 erect prominent margins and with hooked bristles along the margins 

 and on the faces between. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 160 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb, Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 170. Cynoghssum coelestinum, Lindl. Bot. 

 lieg. (1839) t. 36 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 173. Echlnospermum ccelestinum, 

 Wight, Icon. 1. 1394. — Flowers : Oct.-Nov. Vern. If'mirdhL 



KoNKAN : Law !, Stocks ! ; Vingorla, Dalzell ^ Gibson. Deccan : Khandala, CooJce ! ; 

 Mahablesbwar, very common, Cooke !, Woodrow, H. M. Birdivood. S. M. Country : 

 Bel gaum, i?^7c/n■e, 492! Kanaka: iaw !— Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



2. Paracaryum xnalabaricum, C. B. Clarl-e, in liool: f. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 4 (1883) p. 160. Erect, branched, 1-3 ft. high ; stems smooth below, 

 strigose above, usually green, but sometimes tinged Avith brownish-red. 

 Eadical leaves broadly ovate or deltoid, acute, cordate at base with a 

 very wide sinus with petioles 6-12 in. long, the upper surface strigose 

 with hairs -arising from bulbous bases (which are white when dry), the 

 lower surface clothed with dense hairs on the prominent reticulate 

 nerves and veins. Cauline leaves gradually becoming smaller towards 

 the inflorescence, ovate, acute uot cordate, the lower petiolate, the 

 petioles becoming shorter till the leaves are at last sessile, the lower 

 cauline leaves cuneate, the uppermost usually rounded at the base, all 

 reticulately veined, strigose with hairs from bulbous bases on the upper 

 side, and densely hairy with spreading hairs on the nerves and veins 

 beneath. Flowers in numerous terminal racemes forming a dense 

 corymb ; pedicels always present but short. Calyx 1-| in. long in flower, 

 appressedly hairy ; lobes ^ in. long, enlarged to nearly ^ in. in fruit, 

 ovate, subacute, densely ciliate. Corolla nearly | in. long, of a fine 

 uniform blue, much darker than the last species, with slightly darker 

 veins but without a darker centre. Anther-tips just exserted beyond 

 the top of the corolla-tube. Style ^ in. long ; stigma minute. Fruit 

 pyramidal, of 4 nutlets ; nutlets ovoid, acute, nearl}^ ^ in. long, with a 

 prominent erect or incurved margin, glochidiate on the faces, margins 

 and all over with very short, stout, hooked prickles. Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 170.— Flowers: Oct.-Nov. Vebn. Kdla- 

 nisurdJii, 



Deccan : abundant at Mabablesbwar in the open space near the DharamsaLi, 

 Coo/cel; on the bund of the lake at Mabablesbwar, Cooke I, H. M. Birdwood. 

 Kanaka: Law\ — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



3. Paracaryum Ifambertianum, 0. B. CJarle, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. ■ 

 V. 4(1883) p. 161. Erect, 1-3 ft. high; stems stout, the lower part 

 nearly smooth, the upper part rough, green ; young branches densely 

 clothed with appressed hairs. Leaves light-green, lanceolate, acute, 

 clothed on the upper surface with short hairs from bulbous bases and 

 with soft hairs on the prominent and numerous nerves and ve5rs 

 beneath : radical leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., with petioles varying m leugtfi 

 from 2|-5 in., base cuneate, decurrent into the petiole ; cauline leaves 

 with narrowed bases, sessile, except some near the base of the stem 

 which are more or less shortly petiolate. Flowers pedicellate in forked 

 ebracteate racemes (in appearance like those of P. coelesfinum) ; rhachis 

 and pedicels softly hairv, the latter short. Calyx softly hairy, i-| in. 



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