Eritrichium.] c. BORAGINEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) 165 



4. E. pyg-meeum, Clarke ; nearly stemless leaves elliptic, pedicels in. 

 appearing umbelled. nutlets ovoid nearly smooth. Eritrichium sp. n. 16, Herb. 

 Ind. Or. H.f. $> T. 



ALPINE SIKKIM; Momay, alt. 16,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stems 0- in., annual, erect, densely clothed with spreading leaves, terminated by 

 numerous subfascicled spreading pedicels. Leaves \ in., sessile, subobtuse, patently 

 villous. Calyx-lobes ~ in., narrowly oblong. Corolla not seen. Nutlets in., with 

 free apices, testa minutely reticiilate and wrinkled ; carpophore very short. 



5. E. TCunroi, Clarke ; small, suberect, branched, leaves oblong lower 

 spathulate, racemes numerous many-flowered, nutlets ovoid-oblong nearly 

 smooth. Eritrichium sp. n. 13, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. fy T. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 11-13,000 ft.; Kunawur, Munro, Kumaon, Strach. $ 

 Winterb. ; Sikkim, Lachen, J. D. H. 



Stems 1-4 in. Leaves |--Jf in., patently villous. Racemes villous, dense in flower; 

 in fruit pedicels sometimes ^ in., upper ebracteate. Calyx-lobes in flower minute, in 

 fruit ^ in. or upwards, oblong-linear. Flowers hardly in. diam. Nutlets ^ in., 

 minutely reticulate and wrinkled ; carpophore very short. The fruit is imperfect, 

 and there m<?y be more than one species mixed here. 



6. XS. tibeticum, Clarke ; lax, weak, diffuse, leaves elliptic mostly 

 petioled, racemes elongate ebracteate, nutlets ovoid shining glabrous margins 

 entire. Eritrichium sp. n. 17, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



WESTEEN TIBET ; Ladakh, alt. 9-10,000 ft, Thomson. 



Eootstock slender, annual? Stems 6-10 in., numerous, slender. Leaves | by ^ 

 in., obtuse, spathulate, strigose. Racemes in fruit 6 in. ; pedicels ^ in., a few lower 

 from leaflike bracts. Calyx-lobes ~ i n - ovate-oblong. Flowers | in. diam. Nutlets 

 ^ in. ; margin somewhat prominent. 



VAB. minor; less strigose, stems 2-3 in., leaves - in. Eritrichium sp. n. 15, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. Sikkim ; Phulloong, alt. 15,000 ft., J. D. H. 



*** Nutlets conic-obovoid, margin strong fringed with divided hairs. 



7. H, basifixum, Clarke ; erect, leaves sessile broadly lanceolate softly 

 villous, racemes dense bracteate, nutlets apparently basally attached, carpophore 

 depressed hardly convex. Echinospermum sericeum, Eenth. in Royle III. 306 j 

 DC. Prodr. x. 142. 



ALPINE WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Gurwhal, alt. 13-15,000 ft. ; Royle, 

 Lance, Jaeschke, &c. 



Stems 3-7 in., solitary or few, erect, divided at the apex. Leaves f by in., acute, 

 lower densely tufted, upper distant. Eaccmcs in fruit l|in. ; pedicels 0-^- in. ; bracts 

 in. Calyx-lobes in fruit in., narrowly oblong. Flowers \ in. diam. and upwards, 

 blue, purpurescent. Nutlets ^ in., membranous, glabrous ; circular back within the 

 margin minutely hairy. Closely allied to E. villosum, in which the margins of the 

 nutlets carry broad-based flattened lanceolate ciliate-serrate teeth. In the typical 

 Efitrichiums the scar of the nutlets is sub-punctiform at the apex of a depressed cone 

 on the inner lower face ; in E. villosum, DC. Prodr. x. 126 (Myosotis villosa, Ledeb. 

 Ic. Fl. Eoss. t. 215), this cone is less depressed; in E. basifixum it is elongate still 

 more, so that the nutlets are attached apparently basally, nearly as in Lithospermea.- 



16. ROCHELIA, Reichb. 



Annual or perennial, villous or hispid herbs. Leaves alternate. Racemes 

 simple or branched, bracteate. Floivers small, blue or white. Sepals 5 (in non- 

 Indian species 6-7), enlarged in fruit, linear or base aurjcled and sagittate. 

 Corolla-tube cylindric, throat with or without scales ; lobes small, spreading. 



