222 LXXXVII. BORAGINACE^, 



styled flowers, 2-partite ; stigmas suborbicular, flattened. Nutlets 4, 

 tdaDgular iu horizontal cross-section, acinninate, rugose, hardly tuber- 

 culate, -Jjy in. long. ¥1. B. I. v. 4, p. 170 ; Boiss. Elor. Orient, v. 4 

 (1879) p. 213 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5260. 



This species has been included on the autliority of tbe Flora of Br. India, iu 

 ■which Col. Thompson is stated to have obtained the plant from Sind. There is in 

 Herb. Kew. a paper capsule containing a few fragments of the plant, and " Sind 

 Col. Thompson " appears in pencil on the outside. Col. Thompson, who commanded 

 the 7th Dragoon Guards at Sealkote, sent seeds of the plant to Kew, from which 

 specimens were grown and figured in Bot. Mag. 1. c. It is very doubtful if Col. 

 Thompson ever was in Sind, and the specimen alluded to has not been authenticated 

 by his signature.^DibTiUB. India (Panjdb) ; Beluehistan, Afghanistan. 



2. Arnebia hispidissima, DC. Prodr. v. 10 (1846) p. 94. Annual 

 or biennial 3-15 in. high, diffusely branched from a woody base, clothed 

 all over with long white spreading stiff hairs often from bulbous bases. 

 Leaves sessile, |-2 in. (rarely longer) by ^— ^ in., linear- lanceolate, 

 subobtuse, clothed with stiff white hairs from bulbous bases. Flowers 

 dimorphic, in dense secund racemes or spikes ; pedicels very short or ; 

 bracts foliaceous, -J— ^ iu. long, linear-lanceolate, densely hispid. Calyx 

 ^ in. long, very hispid, divided to the base or nearly so ; segments 

 lanceolate, acute, unequal. Corolla yellow, pubescent outside ; tube 

 ^ in. long, slender, lobes -^ in. long, oblong, obtuse. Stamens inserted 

 much below the mouth of the corolla in the long-styled, at or in the 

 throat and g-esserted in the short-styled forms; anthers -gl^- in. long, 

 oblong ; filaments very short. Style slender, 2-partite ; stigmas small, 

 flattened on the inside, rounded on the outside. JNutlets 4, very small, 

 ■Jjy-Jg in. long, triangular in horizontal cross-section, acute, tuberculate 

 on all sides. PL B. I. v. 4, p. 176 ; AVight, Icon. t. 1393 ; Boiss. Elor. 

 Orient, v. 4, p. 213 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 96 : C. B. Clarke, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 18, p. 524; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. K"at. v. 12 

 (1898) p. 170.— Plowers : Mar. 



Gujarat : Pahlanpur, Woodrow. Sind : Cooke !, Bhola Puran !, StocJcs, 417 .', 

 Dalzell I ; Mulir, Woodrow \; Jemadar ka Landa near Karachi, S(oc/csl — Disteib. 

 W. Asia to Egypt and Nubia. 



The roots are imported into Bombay and used as a substitute for Alkanet. 



Obder LXXXVIII. CONVOLVULACE^. 



Herbs or shrubs often twining (rarely trees). Leaves alternate, 

 petiolate, usually exstipulate (0 in Cuscuta). Plowers regular, usually 

 hermaphrodite, various in size and color, often showy, solitary or in 

 pedimculate axillary bracteate cymes. Calyx fi'ee, often persistent, 

 5-partite ; segments equal or unequal, usually distinct to the base, 

 sometimes accrescent. Corolla campanulate, iufundibuliform or rotate, 

 often plicate in bud, entire or shortly lobed. Stamens 5, inserted in 

 the corolla-tube opposite the sepals ; anthers 2-celIed, dorsifixed, linear 

 or oblong, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary superior, 1-4-celled, rarely 

 with almost distinct carpels ; ovules 2, less commonly 1 or 4 in each 

 cell ; style filiform, simple or forked ; stigma capitate, 2-lobed or 

 stigmas 2. Pruit capsular or indehiscent, or circumscissile or irregularly 

 breaking up. Seeds as many as the ovules or fewer ; albumen scanty 

 or ; cotyledons usually broad and much folded (obscure or in 



