Qmphalodes.'] c. BORAGI^EJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) 155 



A. tibetica ; Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 846. 



WESTERN TIHET; Nubra, alt. 13,000 ft. ; near Karsar village, Thomson. 

 Stems 4-14 in., prostrate, branched. Leaves f by in., subobtuse. Pedicels J- 

 in. Sepals ~ in., narrowly oblong. Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the sepals; 

 es i in. Nutlets -^ in. 



9. OIVIPHAIiODES, Moench. 



Weak, decumbent herbs, strigose or subglabrous. Radical leaves long- 

 petioled, lanceolate or ovate ; cauline few, alternate. Pedicels in lax racemes, 

 slender, lower subaxillary solitary from leaf-like bracts. Flowers white or blue. 

 Sepals 5, spreading, little enlarged in fruit. Corolla rotate, throat almoM 

 closed by obtuse scales; lobes 5, round, spreading, imbricate in the bud. 

 Stamens 6, included ; anthers small, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style 

 filiform, from the base of the lobes, stigma small or subcapitate. Nutlets 4, 

 depressed, forming a pyramid, attached to the small carpophore by their inner 

 /aces, their margins broad thin, entire or serrate, reflexed over the back of the 

 nuts so as to form on each a small nearly closed cell opening outwards by a 

 small hole; nuts smooth on the back. Species 10; from the Mediterranean 

 basin to Central Asia and Japan. 



O. Thomson!. Clarke', leaves elliptic or oblong subobtuse strigose on 

 both surfaces, racemes lax subterminal, revolute margins of the nutlets nearly 

 entire. Omphalodes, sp. 8, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. fy T. 



WESTERN TIBET: Nubra, alt. 13,000 ft., Thomson. 



. Itootstock perennial ; annual branches 6-10 in., very numerous, slender, strigose. 

 Radical leaves 1 by in., spathulate; petiole \-\\ in.; cauline f by in., sessile. 

 Pedicels ^-| in., recurved in fruit. Sepals ~ in., oblong, reflexed in fruit. Fruit 

 in. lon^ and broad, exactly pyramidal ; nutlets somewhat saccate at base, appearing 

 inflated by the reflexed loose membranous margin. 



10. CYNOGXiOSSUlK, Linn. 



Biennial or perennial herbs, erect, hairy. Leaves alternate, radical petioled. 

 Racemes elongate, ebracteate ; flowers ultimately distant, sessile or lower 

 shortly pedicelled, blueish or purple. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, in fruit spreading 

 not (or slightly) enlarged. Corolla-tube short, with 5 obtuse or emarginate 

 scales in the throat ; lobes 5, obtuse, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 5, included 

 I'fiicath the scales; anthers small, ovate, their tips hardly above the mouth of 

 the corolla-tube. Ovary-lobes 4 ; style short or longish from the base of the 

 lobes, stigma small. Nutlets 4, forming a much depressed pyramid, apices 

 hardly produced above the hilum, bases rounded produced downwards, outer 

 faces convex or flattened, with or without a margin, glochidiate ; carpophore 

 (after the nuts have fallen) linear, shortly conic at the base (elongate-conic in 

 <'. Jtitrliici and sometimes in C. denticulatum, var. zeylanica. Species 60 ; in 

 subtropical and temperate, especially mountain regions. 



* Flowers very small ; style neither injlower nor in fruit exceeding in. 



l.C. lure a turn. Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey b Wall. ii. 6, and 

 Cat. Oil) ; depressed-strigose, upper cauline leaves oblong sessile entire softly 

 hairy, racemes furcate branches lung fulvous towards the tips, lower flowers 

 <iistinctly pedicelled, outer faces of the nutlets ovate distinctly margined by the 

 confluence of the bases of the marginal glochidia. Don 1'rodr. 100 ; DC. 

 Prodr.x. J4i); Maxim, in Lull. Acad. Petersb. xvii. ;V>4. C. ovatum, Moon 

 Cat. 12. 



