304 Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, Breet, with ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Luar Mareins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
Mertensia like the last species, but with hairs not -lying flat, 
moltkioides, corolla tube twice as long as the calyx, nutlets } in., 
BorRAGINACES. brown-black. 
eT. Biv 170; 
Himalaya, 
8,000 ft. 
Pangi (Dr. Watt). 
Kashmir. 
Mertensia echioides, 
BoraGINACE. 
EB Tay. 4170: 
Kashmir, 
5-12,000 ft. 
Mertensia 
racemosa, 
BorAGINACES. 
Map av. 171. 
Himalaya, 
7-10,000 ft. 
Simla. 
Mashobra (Collett). 
Moltkia parviflora, 
BoRAGINACER. 
os dV. Adds 
Kashmir, 
6-8,000 ft. 
Myosotis ceespitosa, 
Forget-me-not. 
BoRAGINACER. 
HOB... iv. 17s. 
Himalaya, 
9-13,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
small to medium size, perennial, softly hairy, leaves 
14 by 4 in., nearly blunt, racemes 1-3 in., on long stalks, 
corolla tube 4 in. longer than the calyx lobes, corolla 
lobes erect, no scales in the throat, stamens protruding 
beyond the throat of the corolla tube ; otherwise like the 
last species. 
nearly smooth, or minutely hairy, stems small, weak, - 
leaves ovate, radical, long-stalked, stem leaves often stalked, 
lanceolate, racemes nearly sessile. bracteate, few-flowered, 
corolla 4-2in. diam., tube half as long again as the calyx,’ 
scales in the throat, stamens not protruding; otherwise 
like the last species. 
very like Mertensia echioides, but leaves linear- - 
oblong, 2 by 4 in., minutely hairy, racemes without bracts, 
flowers all on one side, corolla hardly projecting beyond 
the calyx, no scales in the throat, 
small to medium size, hairy, or nearly smooth, hairs 
pressed against the stem ; leaves 1} by 4 in., oblong, lowest 
with blade prolonged into the stalk; flowers § in. diam., 
bright blue with a yellow centre, on stalks longer than the 
calyces in racemes 2-8 in., flowers all on one side, calyx 
lobes triangular-lanceolate, as long as the tube, hairy, 
corolla tube short, mouth closed with  scales-lobes 5, 
blunt, spreading, stamens 5, enclosed in the corolla tube, 
style shorter than the calyx lobes ; nutlets 4, ovoid-oblong, 
smooth, 
