96 BOBAGINACEM. [Cynoglossum. 



much depressed pyramid, adnate to a coaic-based linear carpophore* 

 their bases rouuded and produced downwards, outer faces convex or 

 flat, with or without a margin and more or less glochidiate. — Species 

 about 60, in tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres. 



Nutlets obscurely or not at all margined . . 1. C. lanceolatum. 



Nutlets with a prominent margin . . . 2. C. de nticulatum var. 



eeylanica. 



1. C. lanceolatum, Forsk. Fl. ^gypt. 41 (not ofHeyne), F. B. I, iv t 

 156 , Prain Beng. PI. 719.0. racemoSum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 4>56. 



An erect hispid annual, about 1£ ft. high. Leaves sessile, 2-3 in. long, 

 "broadly lanceolate, nerves prominent beneath. Racemes with all the 

 flowers, or all but the uppermost pedicelled elongating in fruit. Flowers 

 at first erect, afterwards nodding. Calyx-lobes obtuse, £ in. long in fruit. 

 Corolla very small, white with a purple throat. Nutlets % in. in diam., 

 shortly ovate, hardly or not at all margined, glochidiate on all sides. 



Sub-Himalayan tracts from Dehra Dun eastwards ; Mohand Pass on the 

 Siwalik Range (Royle 111- 306 under G. furcatum). Distkib. Frequent 

 in Bengal, westwards to Lahore, extending to Arabia. 



2. C. denticulatum, var. zeylanica, C B. Clark in F. B. I. iv, 157 • 



Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 217. G. zeylanicum, Thumb, 



An erect, branching, annual herb, 1-2 ft. high, clothed with spreading or 

 appressed hairs. Leaves lf-3 in. long, lanceolate and usually acute* 

 narrowed towards the base and often decurrent; upper surface covered 

 with short stiff hairs seated on bulbous bases which become white when 

 dry ; lower surface usually strigose and with prominent densely hairy 

 nerves ; margins more or less denticulate, ciliate. Flowers distant, pedi- 

 celled, in terminal and axillary racemes 6-8 in. long. Calyx £ in. long, 

 softly hairy, enlarged when in fruit ; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, ciliate, 

 midrib conspicuone within. Corolla % in. long ; lobes oblong or suborbi- 

 cular. Nutlets glochidiate all over, attached rather obliquely to the 

 carpophore, their upper halves free, prominently margined, the rim 

 furnished with stout prickles each being crowned with 5 or 6 small 

 decurved hooks. 



Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand and N. Oudh. Flowers in October and 

 November. Distrib. W., Cent, and S. India. 



8. BOTHRIOSPERMUM, Bunge ; PI. Brit. Ind. IV, 167. 



Prostrate or diffuse strigose annnal or biennial herbs. Leaves alternate, 

 ovate or lanceolate. Fldwers small, blue or white, axillary, 

 pedicelled, the upper passing into a bracteate raceme. Calyx 

 «5 -partite ; lobes narrow, hardly enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube 

 short, throat with 5 scales ; lobes 5, obtuse, spreading, imbricate- 



