Cynoglossum.~\ c. BORAGINEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 157 



KHASIA MTS. and adjacent parts of ASSAM, alt. 2-6000 ft., frequent; Wallich, 

 Griffith, H. f. $ T. &c. DISTRIB. Ava. 



Erect, 1-2 feet, branches ascending. Leaves 2 by ^ in., thin, sparsely hispid on 

 both surfaces with hairs often rising from tubercles ; radical leaves at the time of 

 flowering. Calyx-lobes ~ in. in fruit. Nutlets in., margined by the confluent 

 bases of the glochidia, but not prominently, glochidia on the faces plentiful and not 

 much shorter ; carpophore sublinear. H. f. & T. appear justified in regarding this 

 plant as allied to C. micranthum, rather than to C. denticulatum. Both Benth. and 

 DC. say that Wallich's C. glochidiatum came from Nepal ; but Wallich says he got 

 it at Punduah, i.e. Khasia, where all other collectors get it. 



5. C. denticulatum, A. DC. Prodr. x. 150; stem softly hairy or 

 strigose, leaves ovate- or oblong-lanceolate some cauline petioled ciliate or den- 

 ticulate, calyx-lo"bes ovate, outer faces of the nutlets shortly ovate prominently 

 margined glochidiate sparingly on the faces. G. Don. Gen. Syst. iv. 354. C. 

 glochidiatum, Benth. in Royle III 306 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 15. 0. 

 canescens, Wall. Cat. 918, partly. 0. vesiculosum, Wall. Cat. 920, partly. 



TROPICAL and TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 1-9000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim ; 

 very common. CENTRAL INDIA from Chota Nagpore to Bombay ; very common. 

 DISTRIB. Cabul, Malaya. 



Resembling C. glochidiatum. Leaves usually closely clothed on the upper surface 

 with hairs rising from tubercles. Carpophore sublinear. The Central Indian examples 

 have rather larger nutlets than the Himalayan C. denticulatum, and are intermediate 

 between that and the Var. zeylanica. 



VAR. zeylanica ; nutlets larger their faces sometimes in. diam. very strongly 

 margined, base of the carpophore sometimes elongate conic so that the nutlets are 

 attached obliquely. C. zeylanicum, Thumb. C. glochidiatum, Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 172. Echinospermum zeylanicum, Lehm. AsperifoL 116; Eoem. $ Sch. Syst. iv. 

 780; DC. Prodr. x. 142. W. Deccan Peninsula, from the Concan southwards in the 

 tropical region. Ceylon (fide Lehmann). 



6. C. Wallichii, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 354 ; stem hirsute erect, cauline 

 leaves lanceolate to ovate base narrowed or petioled ciliate or denticulate, calyx- 

 lobes oblong in fruit sometimes elongate narrow, nutlets shortly ovate strongly 

 margined glochidiate sparingly on the faces. DC. Prodr. x. 150. C. caly- 

 cinum, Wall. Cat. 923, not of Meyer. C. vesiculosum, Wall. Cat. 920, partly. 

 C. microcarpum, A. Kerner Nov. PL Sp. ii. 13. Cynoglossum sp. n. 6, Herb. 

 Ind. Or.H.f.fyT. 



W. TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-11,000 ft, from Kashmir to Kumaon, very 

 common. 



Differs from C. denticulatum in the narrower calyx-lobes more elongate in fruit; 

 these are ovate-oblong in typical C. calycinum, linear-oblong in C. microcarpum, A. 

 Kerner ; and there is every state between. Very abundant westward about Dal- 

 housie, when C. denticulatum becomes rare ; but the two species are very difficult to 

 distinguish, and may not be distinct. 



VAR. alpina ; more hirsute, stems prostrate or decumbent, leaves mostly small 

 more scabrous tuberculate hairy. Cynoglossum sp. n. 7, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 

 ?C. membranaceum, A. DC. Prodr. x. 150. W. Subalpine Himalaya; Edgeworth, 

 &c. Lower cauline leaves 1 in., long-petioled, but most of the leaves |- in., sub- 

 sessile. No authentic example of C. membranaceum seen. 



7. C. ? Ritchiei, Clarke; cauline leaves lanceolate narrowed at the base, 

 calyx-teeth in fruit elongate oblong, outer faces of the nutlets ovate marginate 

 strongly glocnidiate, carpophore in. elongate-conic at base so that the nuts 

 are attached obliquely. 



BOMBAY; Belgaum, Ritchie. 



This closely resembles C. denticulatum, var. zeylanica, and may be a form of it. 



