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from between the lobes, fruit of 4 nutlets. The flowers are 

 often arranged on only one side of the spike or raceme. 



6. TRICHODESMA. Coarse herbs, calyx 5-parted, auricled at 

 the base, increasing in fruit, anthers very large and hairy, 

 joining in a cone : leaves sometimes opposite. 



7. PARACHARYUM. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, corolla with mouth 

 closed by 5 scales. 



8. SERICOSTOMA. Small branched shrubs, sepals 5, narrow, 

 mouth of corolla wide, closed with hairs, nuts "ovoid, stony. 



6. TRICHODESMA. 



1. T. Indicum. (T. zeylanicum, D.). A very rough plant 

 with bristly stem, the hairs springing from tubercles, leaves 

 nearly sessile oblong, narrowed at the base, flowers lilac, calyx 

 lobes ovate lanceolate. Zinghi, gaoza. 



2. T. amplexicaule. Probably a mere form of the last (H.) 

 but the lower leaves are oblong, the upper broad ovate cordate, 

 stem-clasping and auricled. Chota Kalpa. 



Both are common weeds throughout India ; the second I believe is 

 the larger of the two, notwithstanding the native names. 



7. PARACHARYUM. 



P. codestinum. (Cynoglossum c. D.). A handsome strag- 

 gling plant, as much as 5 feet high, not very rough, lower leaves 

 broad ovate, long-stalked, upper narrower and sessile, flowers 

 in long spikes or racemes, white with blue eye, calyx lobes 

 ovate, nutlets flattish surrounded by a hairy ring. Nisurdi. 



S. Konkan, Mahableshwar and Matheran : called the " Maha- 

 bleshwar forget-me-not." Dr. CooTce. 



* P. malabaricum and *P. lambertianum are said by Dr. Cooke to be 

 tolerably common at Mahableshwar : both resemble P. ccelestinum, 

 but the first is stouter, more hairy, and with larger flowers and 

 fruits. Canara (-H".). The second, which H. identifies doubtfully, 

 has a quite different fruit, the nutlets of an inch in diameter, 

 ovate depressed. Neither are in D. or G. 



8. SERICOSTOMA. 



S. pauciflorum. Low and much branched, covered with 

 rough hairs, leaves linear lanceolate, small, flowers solitary or 

 racemed white, calyx large and thick. 



Kelvi-Mahim. Coast of Kattywar, very common (-D.). Sind (H.). 



Cynoglossutn, leaves mainly radical, corolla rotate, the mouth 

 almost closed with a fringe of scales. C. lance* litum (C. micranthum, 



