Echinospermum.~\ c. BORAGINE&. (C. B. Clarke.) 163 



echinophora. Pallas Voy. (ed. Gauthier), v. 496, t. 16, fig. 2. Rochelia echino- 

 phora, Roem. et. Sch. Syst. iv. 110, 782. Heterocaryum minimum, A. DC. 

 Prodr. x. 144. 



KASHMIR ; temperate region Thomson. PUNJAB ; Peshawur, Vicary. DISTRIB. 

 Cabul, Beloochistan to the Ural Mts. and Altai. 



A coarser plant with larger flowers and fruits than .the other Indian Eehino- 

 spermums. Stem 6-12 in., erect, rigid. Leaves 1^ by \ in., numerous, sometimes 

 somewhat obovate, lower spathulate petioled. Racemes in fruit 3-4 in. ; pedicels f- 

 in., distant, rigid, suberect, often thickened ; bracts -f in., leaflike, often continued 

 to the top of the raceme. Calyx-lobes \-\ in. Corolla-tube in., lobes not much over 

 topping the calyx. Nutlets ~-^ in. ; margins thickened, with a single row of strong 

 glochidia ; backs depressed, smooth or scarcely granular ; nutlets inseparably confluent, 

 not rarely 1 or 2 abortive. Boissier (Fl. Orient, iv. 248 ) doubts whether Heterocaryum 

 pachypodum, rigidum, and Szovitzianum (A. DC. Prodr. x. 145), are other than forms 

 of this species. 



2. E. barbatum, Lehm. Asperifol. 128 ; patently hispid, leaves oblong, 

 calyx-lobes oblong, nutlets separable tubercular-scabrous on all sides with 2 

 rows of short stout glochidia round the margin. DC. Prodr. x. 137 ; Boiss. FL 

 Orient, iv. 250. Myosotis barbata, Bieb. Cent. PL Bar. t. 36. Rochelia 

 barbata, Roem. $ Sch. Syst. iv. 110, 782. 



SUBALPINE WESTERN HIMALAYA, ait. 7-12,000 ft. ; from Gurwhal to Baltistlian, 

 frequent ; Thomson, &c. DISTRIB. from Beloochistan and Cabul to the Ural and 

 Altai. 



Erect, 6-18 in. Leaves ^-2 in., narrowed at the base, lower petioled. Racemes in 

 fruit 2-12 in. ; pedicels - in., erect ; bracts ^ in., usually in the upper part of the 

 spike. Calyx-lobes -fa in. Nutlets ^-^ in., forming a compact pyramid, but separable. 



3. E. Redowskii, Lehm. Asperifol. 127 ; patently hispid, leaves oblong, 

 flowers subsessile, calyx-lobes oblong-linear, nutlets separable scabrous on all 

 sides with one row of strong glochidia round the margin. DC. Prodr. x. 137. 

 E. intermedium, Ledeb. FL Alt. i. 199, and Ic. FL Ross. ii. t. 180. Rochelia 

 Redowskii, Roem. $ Sch. Syst. iv. 782. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 9-10,000 ft. ; Leh, Thomson. DISTRIB. Central Asia to the 

 Ural and Altai. 



Generally resembling E. barbatum. Pedicels rarely exceeding ^ in. ; bracts in., 

 oblong, often continued (smaller) to the summit of the spike. Calyx-lobes rather 

 longer than of E. barbatum, in fruit -i in. in Thomson's example. Nutlets nearly as 

 in E. barbatum but the glochidia in one row and much longer. Perhaps E. patulwn, 

 Lehm. (DC. Prodr. 137 ; Boiss Fl. Orient, iv. 250) is not specifically distinct. 



4. E. semig-labrum, Ledeb. FL Alt. i. 204, and Ic. FL Ross. i. t, 28 ; 

 patently hispid, leaves oblong, flowers subsessile, calyx-lobes ^ linear-oblong, 

 nutlets tubercular-scabrous on all sides with one row of glochidia round the 

 margin as long as the nutlet is broad. DC. Prodr. xv 138 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 251. 



WESTERN TIBET and BALTISTHAN, alt. 8-10,000 ft. ; Thomson, &c. DISTRIB. 

 Cabul ; Turkestan to the Altai. 



Hardly distinguishable from E. Bedowskii, but by the longer glochidia of the nuts 

 which often exceed in. Spikes denser, more divided, often somewhat closely 

 panicled. 



15. ERXTRXCHXUltt, Schroder. 



Annual or perennial herbs, strigose or silky- villous. Learns alternate, 

 narrow. Racemes simple or branched. Flowers small, blue, rarely white. 

 Sepal* 5, not or slightly enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube short, throat with 5 



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