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162 c. BORAGINE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Paracarywm 



petiole ; cauline leaves 3 by 1|- in., cuneate or rhomboid at the base. Strikes dense- 

 or lax. Cafyx and corolla nearly as of P. alochidiatum. Nutlets much smaller^ 

 margin shorter, white, membranous, less reflexed, more shortly glochidiate. 



SECT. 2. Small hispid plants, with several stems. Leaves m&Jloivers small. 

 (This section only differs from Omphalodes in the more erect nutlets, not saccate 

 at the base.) 



7. P. himalayense, Clarke : leaves oblong, flowers subsessile, nutlets 

 3- in. diam., margin subpatent glochidiate. Mattia himalayensis, Klotzsch in 

 is. Pi'. Waldem. Sot. 94, t. 64. Omphalodes sp. n. 4, Herb. 2nd. Or. H. f r 



$ T. 



ALPINE WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Nubra, Thomson. 



Stems decumbent then ascending, 6-14 in., patently hispid. Radical leaves 1~ by 

 ^ in., narrowed at both ends, hispid on both surfaces, petiole 1 in. ; cauline similar, 

 smaller, subsessile. Spikes in fruit 3-8 in. ; pedicels hardly any, distant. Calyx- 

 lobes hardly ~ i n -> oblong ; in fruit sometimes | in. Corolla scarcely i in. diam., blue, 

 tube short. Fruit pyramidal ; margin of nutlets membranous, disc muricate, subglo- 

 chidiate ; style hardly in. 



8. P. tibeticum, Clarke; leaves oblong, flowers subsessile or lower 

 pedicelled, nutlets -4 in. diam., margin patent subentire. Omphalodes sp. n. 6 r 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Ladakh, alt. 9000 ft., Thomson. 



Much resembling P. himalayense. Stems more diffuse. Flowers very small, 

 mostly subsessile ; lower pedicels in fruit occasionally -j- in. Fruit pyramidal ; margin 

 of nutlets membranous, disc minutely glochidiate, style less than ^ in. 



9. P. micro carpum, Boiss. Diagn. 2. iii. 139, and Fl. Orient, iv. 255 ; 

 leaves oblong, flowers pedicelled, nuts ^^ in., margin inflexed entire. Ompha- 

 lodes sp. n. 7, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



SUBALPIXE WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 8000 ft. ; Kashmir and Pangee, Thomson. 

 DISTRIB. Cabul. 



Diffuse, hairy. Racemes in fruit 3-8 in. ; pedicels ^ \ in. Calyx and corolla 

 rather larger than of the two preceding species. Fruit pyramidal, some what depressed ; 

 margin of nutlets membranous, as though inflated ; disc minutely glochidiate. 



14. ECHINOSFER1VXUIVI, Sicark. 



Annual or perennial, hispid herbs. Leaves alternate, oblong, lanceolate or 

 narrowly obovate. Flowers very small, sessile or pedicelled ; racemes bracteate, 

 or ebracteate above. Sepals 5. Corolla-tube short, mouth closed by 5 scales j 

 lobes 5, imbricate in the bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included. Anthers 

 ovate, obtuse. Ovary 4-lobed ; style between the lobes, short, stigma small 

 capitate. Nutlets 4, erect, forming a pyramid, confluent or separable, attached 

 above their base ; scar produced to their apex ; bases not produced ; margins 

 with 1 or 2 rows of strong glochidia j carpophore as long as the nutlets. 

 Species 20, in the north temperate regions of the old World and in N. America : 

 a few in S. Africa and Australia. 



The character in Gen. PI. (ii. 835) assigned of " apices of the nuts erect, free 

 round the style, more or less prominent," applies only to the glochidiate species of 

 Eritrichium placed by Bentham in Echinospcrmum, but here enumerated under 

 Eritrichiu/n. 



1. E. minimum, Lehm. Asperifol. 126; patently hispid, leaves linear- 

 oblong, calyx-lobes linear) nutlets elongate-pyramidal confluent. Myosotis 



