Lindelofia.] c. BORAGINEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 159 



11. LINDELOFIA, Lehm. 



An erect, perennial, hairy herb. Kadical leaves petiolate ; cauline alternate, 

 from ovate to linear-lanceolate. Racemes dense, elongate, ebracteate. Flowers 

 blue, purple, or nearly black. Sepals in fruit somewhat enlarged, spreading. 

 Corolla-tube cylindric, longer than the calyx, crowned with scales in the throat 

 forming a cone ; lobes obtuse, round, spreading, horizontally imbricated in bud. 

 Stamens 5 ; anthers large, linear oblong, exserted, but scarcely overtopping the 

 scales. Ovary 4-lobed ; style from near the base of the lobes, long, stigma 

 small. Nutlets 4, depressed, rounded at the base, apices hardly produced, glo- 

 chidiate ; carpophore short. 



I*, spectabilis, Lehm. in Linncea, xxiv. 216 ; hairy, cauline leaves 

 sessile oblong, corolla-tube 1-3 times as long as the calyx, faces of the nutlets 

 glochidiate on the margin chiefly. Cynoglossum longinorum, Benth. in Royle 

 III. 305; JBot. Rey. 26, t. 50. "C. grandiflorum, Benth. in Royle III 305; 

 DC. Prodr. x. 156. Omphalodes longiflora, A. DC. Prodr. x. 158. Anchusopsis 

 longiflora, Bisch. in Linncea, xxxvi. 736. 



ALPINE WESTERN HIMALAYA ; alt. 10-12,000 ft,, from G-urwhal to Kashmir, Royle, 

 Madden, Falconer, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., patently, sometimes densely hairy. Kadical leaves long-petioled, 

 2-4 in., lanceolate ; lower cauline petioled, upper subcordate, amplexicaul, 3 in., 

 hirsute more or less on both surfaces. Racemes dense, even in fruit, or elongate lax. 

 Calyx-lobes in flower | in., subacute, in the type example, sometimes obtuse, variable 

 in length, sparingly pilose or woolly. Corolla intense blue, tube \ in., lobes in. in 

 the type example, excessively variable in size. Outer faces of the nutlets - in., 

 ovate, marginal glochidia connate at the base, the obscure medial line sparingly 

 glochidiate, the rest of the surface nearly smooth ; in a word, as of Cynoglossum ; 

 carpophore sublinear. Hardly any two examples agree in the size and shape of the 

 corolla and calyx or in their relative sizes. 



VAR. Falconeri ; stems strict, leaves linear-lanceolate, calyx-lobes in. narrowly 

 oblong, corolla-tube | f in. Kashmir, Falconer. 



VAR. Levingii ; leaves elliptic and ovate acute, calyx-lobes -^ in. ovate, corolla- 

 tube by in., segments ^ in. diam. orbicular, style f in. Kashmir ; Pir Pingul, alt. 

 1 1,500 ft., Levinge. This has much larger flowers than any other example. 



2. Xi. Benth ami, Hookf. ; hairy, leaves linear-lanceolate acute, racemes 

 panicled, corolla-tube about equalling the calyx narrow, segments elliptic or 

 oblong suberect. Solenanthus sp. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. fy T. 



KASHMIR and WESTERN TIBET; alt, 11-15,000 ft., Thomson, Strachcy $ Winter- 

 bottom, &c. 



Stems 2-3 ft., erect. Radical leaves long-petioled, narrow-lanceolate, cauline 

 sessile 4 by -\ in. Panicles repeatedly branched, laxly racemose ; pedicels \- in. 

 and upwards. Calyx-lobes at flower-time nearly ~ by in., narrowly lanceolate, acute. 

 Corolla-tube |-| by in., cylindric; lobes by ^ in., erect or only half-patent. 

 Filaments as long as the scales ; anthers exserted (not from the corolla). Style 

 |-| in. Nutlets |-| in., forming a pyramid, densely shortly glochidiate, especially 

 round the margins ; carpophore elongate conic. This may prove to be S. angustifolius, 

 Fisch. $ Mey. ; DC. Prodr. x. 165; it was placed in Lindelofia by Bentham, (to which 

 genus I would refer the Solenanthi with long anthers, as S. lanatus, A. DC., 

 S. braclitystcmon, F. & M. J. D. Hooker). 



12. SOLENANTHUS, Ledeb. 



Perennial, hairy herbs. Leaves alternate, radical petioled. Racemes dense 

 or corymbose, ebracteate. Calyx 5-partite, scarcely enlarged in fruit. Corolla 



