166 c. BOBAGINE2B. (C. B. Clarke.) [Eochelia. 



Stamens 5, included ; anthers ovate, obtuse. Ovary 2-lobed, 2-celled ; style 

 from between the lobes, sublateral, shortly linear, stigina capitate ; ovule 1 in 

 each cell. Nutlets 2, 1-seeded, erect, ovate-oblong, granular-tubercular (in the 

 Indian species) ; scar extending from the base to the middle. Species 8 ; from 

 India, through W. Asia to N. Africa and S. Europe ; 1 in Australia. 



1. R. stellulata, ReicJib. Iconogr. ii. 13, t. 123; villous, subhispid, 

 leaves narrowly oblong subspathulate, sepals in fruit linear incurved with 

 hooked hairs, pedicels not exceeding the sepals. DC, Prodr. x. 176 Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 244. R. saccharata, ReicKb. in. Ftora, 1824, 243. Lithospermum dis- 

 permum, Linn. Sp. PL 191. L, retortum, Pallas Toy. (ed. Gauthier) v. 497, t. 

 16, fig. 3. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Nubra, Thomson. DISTRIB. From Soongaria and Cabul to Spain 

 and Algeria. 



Stems 5-14 in., branched, wiry. Leaves 1 by | in., lower subpetioled. Racemes 

 in fruit 2-12 in. ; bracts to nearly all the flowers, leaflike, smaller upwards. Sepals 

 in flower scarcely i in., in fruit nearly % in. Corolla in. long, less than ^ in. 

 diam. Nutlets nearly in. long, white-tubereulate ; style hardly longer than the 

 nutlets ; pedicels in fruit subpatent, not distinctly recurved nor thickened. 



2. R. stylaris, Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 245; adpressedly villous, leaves 

 spathulate-oblong or sublinear, sepals in fruit linear incurved without hooked 

 hairs, pedicels exceeding the sepals. R. stellulata, Aitchison Punjab List, 67. 



KASHMIR, and adjoining PUNJAB PLAINS, frequent ; Thomson, Vicary, &c. 

 DISTRIB. Cabul. 



Annual, 2-8 in., erect. Leaves narrower, racemes slenderer than in R. stellulata. 

 Pedicels in fruit deflexed, scarcely thickened. Style considerably exceeding the 

 nutlets. Closely allied to R. stellulata. 



3. It. rectipes, Stocks in Hook. Keiu Journ. iv. 176; villous, subhispid, 

 leaves oblong, sepals in fruit ligulate base keeled with spreading scarcely hooked 

 hairs, pedicels about equalling the sepals. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Zanskar, Thomson. DISTRIB. Cabul and Beloochistan. 



Annual ; stems 2-5 in., erect, with ascending branches. Leaves by in., lower 

 spathulate or sublinear. Racemes in fruit 1-4 in., somewhat dense, bracteate. Sepals 

 in fruit by ^ in. wide at the base, hairs soft hardly hooked even when dry. Corolla 

 pale-blue, with a white throat (Stocks'). Nutlets scarcely half as long as the sepals ; 

 fruiting pedicels suberect, not thickened. Boissier (Fl. Orient, iv. 246) reduces this 

 species to R. macrocalyx, Bunge (in PI. Lehm. 419). But Bunge describes the fruit- 

 ing sepals as bigibbous at the base and very hispid, which does not fit. There is 

 another Cabul plant of Griffith's which (ex descr.) may be R. macrocalyx, Bunge, and 

 which may have been sent to Boissier as R. rectipes. 



4. R. cardiosepala. Bunge in PL Lehm. 420 ; strigose, subhispid, leaves 

 oblong, sepals in fruit ovate-lanceolate auriculate-cordate at the base hispid, 

 pedicels in fruit recurved as long as the sepals. Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 246. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Nubra, Thomson. DISTRIB. Turkestan. 



Annual, erect, 6-8 in., very ramous. Leaves l by in., lower spathulate or 

 petioled. Racemes lax, 2-5 in. ; bracts to nearly all the flowers, leaflike, smaller 

 upwards. Sepals in flower, in., white silky, in fruit by - in. Corolla % by ^ in. 

 Nutlets in., rather larger than of R. stellulata. 



17. ASFERUGO, Linn. 



A procumbent, scabrous-hispid annual. Leaves alternate and subopposite, 

 spathulate-oblong or petioled, subentire. . Flowers small, axillary, subsessile, 



