790 Borraginaceae. 
1102. (1.) Paracaryum Boissieri Schweinf. in Aschers.-Schweinf. 
ILlustr. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. (1889) p. 768. — Paracaryum micranthum 
Boiss. Diagn. Plant. Orient., Ser. 1 fase. XI p.129 pro parte. — Flor. 
Or. IV, p. 255. — Omphalodes micrantha DC. Prodrom. X, p. 159 
partly. — Cynoglossum intermedium Fres. in Mus. Senckenberg IL. 
p. 169. — An annual plant, 5—10 cm high or more, velvety- 
asperulous, greyish; stems tender, erect or ascending, few-branched. 
Basilar leaves oblong, obtuse, the others oblong-linear. Fruiting racemes 
loose, one-sided; fruiting pedicels recurved as long as the calyx or 
shorter; corolla blue, minute, limb as long as the tube; nutlets 
3 mm broad, cup-shaped with echinulate or unarmed disk, and more 
or less introflexed denticulate margin, — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Northern Galala, rare. 
Local name: sileysele (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Sinai. 
1103. (2.) Paracaryum rugulosum DC. Prodrom. X (1845), 
p. 161. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 256. — Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. I 
fase. XI p. 131. — Omphalodes persica Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., 
Ser.I fasc.7 p.30. — Paracaryum rubriflorum Stocks in Hook. 
Journ. of Botany IV (1852), p. 175. — Omphalodes myosotoides 
Fresen. in Mus. Senckenberg II, p.170 not of Labill. — A low 
shrub, 20—30 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, canescent, 
often with retrorse hairs; root vertical; stems tufted. Lower leaves 
oblanceolate, long-tapering at the base, upper ones lanceolate to linear. 
Inflorescence a stiff panicle; corolla violet to purple, limb shorter 
than the tube; fruiting racemes loose, short; fruiting pedicels as 
long as the calyx or longer; nutlets hamper-shaped, with echinulate 
or unarmed disk, and rugose, denticulate, introflexed margin. — 
Flow. March. 
D. i. Wady-el-Hage. 
Also known from Arabia to Persia. 
445. (5.) Omphalodes Moench. 
Weak, decumbent herbs, strigose or subglabrous. Basilar leaves 
long petioled, lanceolate or ovate; cauline ones few, alternate. Pedicels 
in loose racemes, slender, lower subaxillary solitary from leaf-like 
bracts. Flowers white or blue. Sepals 5, spreading, little enlarged 
in fruit. Corolla rotate, throat almost closed by obtuse scales; 
lobes 5, round, spreading, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 5, included; 
anthers small, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style filiform, from the base 
of the lobes, stigma small or capitate. Nutlets 4, depressed, forming 
a pyramid, attached to the in small carpophore by their inner faces, 
