95. BOEAGI^ACEM. [7. Cynoglossum. 



the tails. Nutlets ovoid, grey polished outside, brown rough inside, 

 not margined. 



Perhaps more common in the ^vestern districts than the last ! Singbhum very 

 common! Manhhum, 5a?n Samhalpur ! Kalahandi, Cooi^eH Annual. Fl., Fr. 



"^SwertaveTtkpering into a petiole -6" long (perhaps ^^^^ i^/'^S^^i' -o' \onf 

 leaves seldom present when flowering) can me mostly ^T^^ J^^. P« ^«^^,,;: ^ ^^^gj 

 leaf base not cordate. Pedicels up to l-r5" m fruit Calyx 4o- 8 (the latter in 

 fruit) sepals finally spreading in fruit, keeled as m T. mdica. Cor.-tube 2- 2o . 

 Ovary hemispheric "with position of septa evident as ridges. 



7. CYNOGLOSSUM, L. 



Erect hairy often hispid biennial or perennial herbs. Flowers 5- 

 nierous, usually small (very small in oiu- species), blue, or purplish m 

 «lono-ate ebracteate circinate scorpioid cymes. Calyx deeply iobed, 

 spreadino- in fruit. Corolla subrotate, tube short with 5 scales m 

 the throat Stamens included, under the scales, anthers small ovate. 

 Ovary lobes 4, style often stout, stigma small. Nutlets -i forming a 

 depressed pyramid, apices hardly produced above the hilum bases 

 rounded produced downwards, outer faces convex or flattened, 

 glochidiate, carpophore conic at base, then slender. 

 Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear. Nutlets densely ^^^^^^^^^ 



glochidiate all round . . . • ' ■ \ \ -u-'iJo+I 

 T.pnvps elliptic to ovate. Nutlets usually sparingly glochi-diate 



on upper See. but with a distinct margin of glochidia . . 2. denHcidatum. 



The key characters are not very satisfactory and they pass somewhat ii^to one 

 another but I find the character of sessile or pedicelled flowers and the character 

 S??he hairs still more difficult to work. C. micranthum, Berf., also, I believe some- 

 time^ ocJurs in the north. It is distinguishable by its very minute nutlets Oo" 

 long only. 



1. C. lanceolatum, Forsk. 



An erect herb 2-4 ft. high clothed with somewhat hispid, often 

 reflexed hairs on the stems. Leaves lanceolate or upper Imear- 

 lanceolate, radical usually oblanceolate tapering at base into very 

 lono- slender petioles but often dying when the plant flowers, 

 pubescent. Racemes strigose, branches usually unequal, 3 and 

 «lono-ate up to 6" or 1 foot in fruit. Flowers on pedicels about -1 

 lono-'' white with a blueish or piirple eye of 5 rays, -25" diam. Nutlets 

 •I'^'densely glochidiate all over, sometimes forming an inconspicuous 

 margin with' the connate bases of the spines. 



Common among grass and in waste places ! Fl., Fr. c.s. and h.s. 



RoXtock about -7" diam. on old plants. Hairs on stems somewhat spreadmg. 

 scSy tubeS at 1^^ Radical leaves up to 4-5" long by r3' ^vlde, tapering 

 fnto a 6'' long petiole; cauline smaller upwards, attenuate at base with shoi-t 

 Sole villous beneath along midrib and hairy with small tubercled-based and 

 fmall simple hairs, above with tubercled-based more or ^ss deciduous hairs^ 

 Slvx -1" long, campanulate in flower, To" in fruit, deeply cleft thi-ee-fourths 

 down into ovate-oblong lobes, spreading and often broadly ovate m ti-uit Corel a 

 with urceolate tube, fobes suborbicular, throat nearly closed by hooded sulcata 

 pink scales. 



2. C. denticulatum, A.BC. 



^ less stout plant than the preceding. Stems much forked with 

 every alternate fork ending in a raceme and finally both foi;ks equal 

 and racemose, hairy with hairs more or less appressed, white, with 



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