7. Ctnoglossum.] 95. BORAGINACE^. 



small tubercled bases. Eadical leaves evanescent at time of floweringv 

 elliptic, 3-4" by I'T", acute or enneate at base (not long-tapering as. 

 in last) with petiole 3-3"5" ; eauline leaves often minutely denticulate, 

 hairy, with scattered hairs rising from well-marked tubercled bases 

 above, paler and shortly hairy beneath without tubercles, ovate to 

 broadly lanceolate or elliptic. Kacemes strigose, branches iisually 

 equal, attaining 6-8" in fruit. Flowers all pedicelled or upper sub- 

 sessile, pedicels •1--2" in fruit. Corolla pretty, pale blue with a 

 darker eye •2--25" diam. Nutlets -I-'IS", the iipper face sometimes 

 with only 3-4 glochidia but with a distinct margin of connate 

 glochidia. In other cases, however, there are as many as 12 or more 

 glochidia on the face and the nutlet approaches to that of the last 

 species. 



Chota Nagpur, chiefly on the mountains ! Fl.. Fr. c.s. 



The calyx and corolla are much the same size and shape as in the preceding. 

 The two species are not always easily distinguishable and are scarcely more than 

 varieties of one. 



8. BOTHRIOSPERMUM, Bunge. 

 Weak herbs with small blue or white pedicelled flow^ers, lower 

 axillary, upper sometimes becoming racemose in the axils of bracts. 

 Calyx 5-partite, lobes narrow, somewhat accrescent or not in fruit. 

 Corolla-tube short, throat with 5 scales, lobes spreading. Stamens 

 5 included, anthers ovate. - Ovary deeply 4-lobed, style short, stigma 

 capitate. Nutlets 4, ellipsoid, granular scabrid, scar near the middle 

 of inner face, large, hollow, smooth with an inflexed margin, carpo- 

 phore oblong. 



1. B. tenellum, Fisch. 



A weak procumbent and ascending herb with thinly adpressed 

 hairy stems, 7-12" long, long-petioled elliptic low^er leaves about 

 1-5-2" long, upper smaller and those on flowering branches (bracts) 

 about "3" only, subsessile, with extra-axillary or leaf-opposed small 

 white flowers. Sepals •05-06" in flower, enlarging to "14" in fruit, 

 narrowly lanceolate. Nutlets densely minutely tuberculate, oblong, 

 about half as long as the calyx. 



Bettiah, Hieromjmusl Behar, J.D.H. ! Fl., Fr. Feb. -May. 



FAM. 96. CONYOLYULACE^. 



Herbs or shrubs, very frequently twining to the left, often with 

 milky juice, with alternate leaves, rarely {Cuscida) leafless parasites. 

 Leaves mostly simple and palminerved, sometimes palmately or 

 pinnately compound, very rarely with stipules. Hairs simple or 

 forked. Flowers regular, 2-sexual from minute to very large, solitary 

 or cymose, usually Avith 2 well-developed bracteoles. Sepals 5 free 

 or connate at the base, imbricate, often very unequal, persistent and 

 sometimes accrescent or winged in fruit. Corolla tubulai', salver- 

 shaped, funnel-shaped, campanulate or almost rotate with limb 

 subentire to deeply 5-lobed, lobes in bud rarely imbricate, visually 



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