164 C. BORAGINE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Erilrichium. 



scales ; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included ; 

 anthers ovate, obtuse. Ovary 4-lobed ; style between the lobes, short, stignia 

 email capitate. Nutlets 4, erect, much longer than the carpophore, scar small 

 below their middle, nearly basal in E. basifixum, tips free ; margins winged by 

 glochidia confluent at the base or rugose or entire. Species 70; Europe, Temp. 

 Asia, America ; in Australia. 



* Glochidia on the margin of the nutlets confluent at their bases. 



1. E. strictum, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Sot. 12o ; perennial, silky- 

 white, leaves linear, bracts minute in the upper part of the raceme, sepals in 

 fruit iQ~i2 i n< oblong. A. DC. Prodr. x. 128. E. Jacquemontii and longi- 

 folium, Dene. I c. 122, 123, tt. 127, 129 ; DC. I. c. 25. Echinospermum canum, 

 Benth. in Eoyle III 306 ; A. DC. I. c. 14] . ? E. myosotiflorum, A. DC. Prodr. 

 x. 141. 



Throughout the WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 7-13,000 ft. ; common, from Kashmir 

 and Baltisthan to the Sutledge. 



EootstocJc woody ; stems 8 in., numerous, strict, undivided. Leaves H by ^ in., 

 softly adpressedly silky ; lowest similar but larger, attenuate, hardly petioled ; radical 

 withered. Racemes 1-3 in., branched; pedicels |~| in., erect in fruit. Flowers \ in. 

 diam., blue. Nutlets forming a pyramid j^-^ in. high, produced more than half their 

 length above the punctiform scar ; margins subreflexecl, thin, the weak glochidia 

 produced shortly above their confluence, scabrous, apices of most divided, uncinate ; 

 backs scabrous, or muricated with minute prickles. Deeaisne's example here described 

 has narrower leaves than the mass of the material which is half-way between this 

 and var. Thomsoni. This is the type of the genus Echinospermum as described in the 

 Gen. PI., and may be E. myosotiflorum, A. DC. Prodr. x. 141. 



VAR. Thomsoni; glistening silky, stems 12-18 in., cauline leaves f by i in. 

 oblong radical much larger long-petioled, racemes larger with rather larger calyces 

 and fruits, nutlets often pilose. N. Kashmir, alt. 8000 ft., Thomson, &c. A most 

 beautiful plant, perhaps specifically distinct. 



VAR. fruticidosum ; weaker, greener, stems diffuse sometimes with divaricate 

 branches. E. fruticulosum, Klotzsch in Eeis. Pr. Wald. Bof. 96, t. 62. E. patens, 

 Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 125; DC. Prodr. x. 128. W. Himalaya, alt. 8-11,000 

 ft.; Pangee, Lahoul, Changas ; Thomson, &c. 



2. E. spathulatum, Clarke ; perennial, villous, leaves oblong, bracts 

 minute in the upper part of the raceme, calyx-lobes in fruit ^-\ in. oblong. 

 Echinospermum spathulatum, Benth. in Royle III. 306 ; DC. Prodr. x. 142. 



WESTERN TIBET; Hangarang Pass, Thomson; Kijungar Pass, alt. 16,000 ft., 

 Strachey and Winterbottom. 



EootstocJc woody. Stems 2-6 in., numerous, decumbent. Cauline leaves f by 5- in., 

 sessile ; lower numerous, larger, spathulate, petioled. Nutlets not ripe, larger than in 

 E. strictum, var. Thomsoni, hairy on the back. Perhaps a form of E. strictum, but 

 wants the glistening silky indumentum of that species ; calyx and nutlets larger. 



** Margins of the nutlets entire or crenulate not (jlochidiate. 



3. E. pustulosum, Clarke; weak, diffuse, strigose, leaves spathulate- 

 oblong, pedicels few subaxillary, nutlets ovoid tubercular and minutely pubes- 

 cent. Eritrichium sp. n. 14, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



ALPINE SIKKIM; Lachen, alt. 13-15,000 ft,, J. D. H. 



EootstocJc biennial (at least), weak ; stems 3-7 in. Leaves f by ^ in., cauline 

 mostly spathulate, petioled, a few uppermost sessile. Pedicels ^-^ in. in fruit. Calyx- 

 lobes in fruit ^ in., elliptic-oblong. Flowers \ in. diam., pale blue. Nutlets fV-K ^ n - 

 not distinctly margined ; tubercles appearing as tufts of minute hairs. 



