Tbiohodesma.] BORAGINACE&. 95 



cordate; upper surface clothed with stiff hairs seated on flattened 

 circular tubercles ; lower surface less harshly hispid, mure or lose 

 villous or quite glabrous except on the nerves and veins. Flowers pale 

 "blue, changing to pink or white. Calyx about }, in. long, clothed with 

 long rather stiff hairs ; segments lanceolate, acute, cordate ur hastate 

 at the base. Corolla i in. long ; limb oblique, funnel-shaped ; lubos ovate, 

 abruptly accuminate. Nutlets £ in. long, smooth and polished on the 

 back, rugose on inner face, scarcely margined, white or blueish when 

 ripe, 



Plentiful by road-sides and in waste ground throughout the area. Flowers 

 during the cold season. Distrib. Throughout Inlia and in Ceylun, 

 ascending to . r -,000 ft. on the Himalaya ; extending to Afghanistan, 

 Baluchistan, Persia and the Mauritius. A most variable species as 

 regards indumentum. In what may be regarded as typical T. indicum, 

 the stems aud leaves are more or less villous, and sometimes much less 

 bo than in specimens which have been referred to T. am-plsxicaule ; 

 anl, as there are no other characters by which they can be distinguished 

 it will be more satisfactory to consider the latter merely as a climatal 

 form. 

 2. T. zeylanicum, R. Br. Prod, 496 ; Boyle III. 304 ,• F. B. D. iv, 154 ; 



Watt E. D. ; traui Uencj.Pl. 720 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, it, 215. Borrago zeyla- 



nica, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind, i } 459. 



An erect annual, 1-2 ft. high. Stems stout, densely pilose, of ten tinged with 

 purple. Leaves sessile or shortly petioled, 2-4 in long, lanceolate or 

 oblong, obtuse or acute, upper surface Covered with short stiff, bulbous- 

 based hairs, finely pubescent beneath. Flowers pale- blue, usually in 

 terminal bracteate panicles, or with a few solitary ones in the upper 

 axils ; pedicels slender, pubescent, nodding; bracts leaf-like. Calyr 

 softly pubescent, rounded at the base ; lobes £ in. long, lanceolate, 

 acute, hairy within, midrib prominent. Corolla -tuba j in. long ; lobes 

 obovaie, rounded, plicate, with a spirally twisted accuminate apex. 

 l$utl>ts grey when ripe, otherwise resembling those of T. indicum. 



Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell) Flowers in Jan. Distkib. From Chota Nagpur 

 and B mbay to S. India and Ceykn ; extending to Malaya, Australia 

 and the Mascarene Islands. The leaves are used medicinally. 



7. CYNOGLOSSUM, Linn. FL Brit. Ind/iv, 155. 



Erect, hairy, biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, radical 

 petioled. Flowers blueish or purple, usually in elongate sparingly 

 branched panie'ed rarew es, ultimately distant, sessile, or the lower 

 shot tly pedicelled, bracts none. Calyx 5 partite, spreading in fruit, 

 son.eumes slightly enlarged. Corolla-tube short, with 5 obtuse or 

 emarginatesc les in the throat; lobes 5, obtuse spi fading, imbricate 

 in bud. Stamens 5, aduate to the corn. la-tube ant included beneath 

 the scales. Ovary distinctly 4-lobed, style abort or long, from 

 between the bases of the lobes, stigma small. Nuclets 4-forming a 



