156 C. BORAGiNEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Cynovlossum* 



Throughout INDIA and CEYLON ; in the mountains, alt. 4-9000 ft., very common ; 

 no examples from the Malay Peninsula. DISTRIB. Calml. 



Erect, 1-3 ft., no patent or lax hairs on the stem. .Radical leaves larger, long- 

 petioled, persistent at the time of flowering ; cauline 4 by 1 in., acute, frequently 

 subdecurrent, glabrous or very minutely but scarcely scabrous on the upper surface, 

 nerves beneath often prominent. Lower pedicels often T ~-| in. Calyx-lobes ovate, in 

 fruit often in. broadly oblong. Outer face of the nutlets in., with no distinct 

 medial line, with scattered glochidia often not much shorter than the marginal : 

 carpophore linear, hardly conical at the base. Generally distinguished correctly from 

 the other closely allied species of this subsection by its almost silky indumentum and 

 tawny young racemes. C. ovattim, Moon, is a form common in the Nilgherries with 

 shorter, ovate, thicker, more softly hairy leaves. 



VAR. lanceolata ; leaves thinner margin obscurely crenulate upper surface sub- 

 scabrous with longer hairs rising from a more tuberculate base. C. lanceolata, 

 Heyne; Wall. Cat. 921. C. Heynei, Gr. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 354; DC. Prodr. x. 150. 

 Nilgherries, Anamallays, and Mts. of Ceylon, frequent. Stem with subpatent hairs ; 

 cauline leaves narrowed at the base, sometimes obscurely petioled, margin minutely 

 scabrous, in these respects approaching C. micranthum, but the fruit is altogether as 

 of C.furcatum. 



2. C. micranthum, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. 1804, 220, /de A. DC. Prodr. 



x. 149 ; patently hairy, upper cauline leaves lanceolate acute at both ends 

 crenulate, racemes divaricately forked lower flowers subsessile, calyx-lobes 

 minute ovate obtuse, outer faces of the small nutlets shortly ovate not (or most 

 obscurely) margined glochidiate on all sides. Maxim, in Butt. Acad. Petersb* 

 xvii. 555. C. canescens, Willd. Enum. Hort. JBerol. 180 ; Benth. in Royle III. 

 306; Wall. Cat. 918, partly. 0. vesiculosum, Wall. Cat. 920, partly. 



NORTHERN- INDIA and the HIMALAYA, alt. 1-8000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan and 

 Pegu, common. 



Stem 1-4 feet, erect, hirsute. Eadical leaves none at the time of flowering; 

 upper cauline 3 by -| in., uppermost often very narrow, margin ciliate sometimes 

 subdenticulate, upper" surface scabrous with hairs from tuberculate bases. Racemes 

 rigid, often imbricate ; flowers very small, sessile in the typical form (lower pedi- 

 celled in Wallich's examples). Calyx-lobes ^ in. in fruit, obtuse from the first. 

 Corolla very small, white, the scales in the throat blue-black. Nutlets 6 in., ovoid, 

 in the typical form, sometimes rather larger ; carpophore cylindric-linear ; style often 

 twice as long as the nutlets. 



3. C. lanceolatum, Forsk. Fl. JEy. 41, not of Heyne ; hispid, leaves 

 broadly lanceolate strongly nerved beneath, racemes often long with all the 

 flowers pedicelled, nutlets in. diam. shortly ovate not (or most obscurely) mar- 

 gined glochidiate on all sides. DC. Prodr. x. 155. 0. racernosuin, Roxb. Hort. 

 Beny. 13, and Fl. 2nd. ed. Carey fy Watt. ii. 6. C. hirsutum, Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 

 iv. t. 489, not of Thunb. 0. micranthum, Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 172. 



BENGAL PLAIN, t^o the' sea, common ; extending throughout the G-ANGETIC PLAIN 

 to LAHORE. BOMBAY ; Law. DISTRIB. Arabia. 



Kaceme-branches in fruit often 6-10 in.; pedicels often \ in.; calyx-lobes in 

 fruit in., obtuse. Roxburgh's C. racemosum has been united by all authorities with 

 C. micranthum, Desf.; the nutlets are larger, the habit coarser ; whether species or 

 variety, it is identical with C. lanceolatum, Forsk. 



4. C. glochidiatum, Wall. Cat. 922 ; stem hispid with hairs springing 

 from tubercles, cauline leaves lanceolate base attenuate or petioled ciliate or 

 denticulate, lower flowers of the elongate racemes shortly pedicelled, calyx- 

 lobes ovate obtuse sometimes oblong in fruit, outer faces of the nutlets ovate- 

 margined glochidiate on all sides. DC. Prodr. x. 150, as to description only. 

 C. stellulatum, Wall. Ca$. 921. C. micranthum, Var. H.f. $ T. in Herb. 



