Plants of the Punjab. 301 
Heres, Ereot, with ALTERNATE EXxstipuLATE SimpLe Leaves, 
Paracaryum 
heliocarpum, 
BorAGINACEA, 
HD By koivs 161, 
Himalaya, 
7-9,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Lahul, 
Spiti (Thomson), 
Paracaryum 
glochidiatum, 
BoRAGINACES. 
Be B.D. iv. F61. 
Himalaya, 
9-12,000 ft. 
Matiana Hill. 
Hattu (Collett). 
Kashmir, 
Paracaryum 
microcarpum, 
BoRAGINACER. 
BB. ive 262. 
Himalaya, 
8,000 ft, 
Pangi. 
Kashmir. 
Echinospermum 
minimum, 
BoRAGINACER. 
BOB Torveie62. 
N.-W. F. Province. 
Peshawar. 
( Vicary). 
Kashmir Valley. 
Lear Marains ENrire, 
PETALS UNITED, 
medium size, biennial or perennial, softly hairy ; 
leaves radical long-stalked, 6 by 1 in., lanceolate, pro- 
longed down the stalk, stem-leaves 24 by } in., oblong or 
lanceolate, softly hairy on both surfaces ; flowers 1-4 in., 
blue, in long loose bractless racemes, 4-10 in., calyx lobes 5, 
§ in., narrowly oblong, silky, little enlarged in fruit, corolla 
tube closed by scales }-} in., lobes 5, % in., almoss erect, 
blunt, stamens 5, under the mouth scales, style 4 in. in 
fruit ; nutlets 4, }-} in., forming a pyramid with stiff per- 
sistent style, bristly, strongly margined. 
like the last species, but radical leaves ovate, heart- 
shaped, not prolonged down the stalk, stem-leaves ovate 
or orbicular, only hairy on the nerves beneath, corolla 
tube much shorter, style only } in., nutlets forming a 
larger pyramid, hooked bristles much longer, linear. 
like the last species, but much smaller, spreading, 
flowers much smaller, leaves oblong, much smaller, nutlets 
very small, forming a pyramid, with only minute hooked 
bristles on the disc, not on the margins of the nutlets. 
small, stiff, bristly ; leaves 14 by + in., linear-oblong, 
lower leaves with the blade prolonged into the stalk; 
flowers 4 in., blue, on stalks + in., in racemes 2-3 in. with 
bracts 3-2? in., leaflike, often reaching to the end of the 
racemes, calyx lobes 5, 4-4 in., linear, corolla tube short, 
mouth closed by 5 scales, lobes 5, blunt, spreading, a little 
longer than the calyx lobes, stamens 5 within the corolla 
tube ; nutlets 4, erect, 4-4 in., forming a pyramid, margin 
thickened with one row of hooked bristles ; nutlets firmly 
united, 
