Asperugo."] c. BORAGINE^B. (C. B. Clarke.) 167 



.solitary or paired. Calyx campanulate, 5-fid half-way down ; in fruit much 

 enlarged, rigid, compressed, lobes toothed nervose. Corolla-tube short, mouth 

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

 included; anthers ovate-oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style short, 

 .stigma small capitate. Nutlets 4, erect, ellipsoid-oblong, laterally compressed, 

 smooth, stony, attached at a small subpunctiform scar above their middle ; car- 

 pophore conoid. 



A. procumbens. Linn. ; DC. Prodr. x. 146; Lamk. III. t. 94; Enyl. 

 Sot. t. 661 ; Sibth. Fl. Or. t. 177 ; Reichb. Fl Germ. t. 1327 ; Boiss. FL Orient. 

 iv. '275. 



PUNJAB and KASHMIR, alt. 1-7000 ft.; extending to 13,000 ft. in WESTERN TIBET 

 .and the KARAKORUM; a weed especially near cultivation, Thomson, &c. DISTRIB. 

 Europe, N. Africa, W. Central and N. Asia. 



Spreading, 1-2 ft., branched. Leaves l-2 in. Flowers J in. diam., purplish-blue 

 or white ; calyx- lobes in flower, ^ in., oblong. Nutlets |- in. ; calyx in fruit \ in. 

 .diam., reticulately-nerved ; lobes large, triangular. 



IS. 1KXCROUX.A, fienth. 



An almost stemless, scabrous-pubescent herb. Radical leaves elliptic-spathu- 

 late, rosulate. Cymes dense, many-fid., subsessile among the leaves, bracteate. 

 Flowers small, sessile. Calyx campaimlate ; lobes 5, ciliate. Corolla-tube short, 

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

 included ; anthers ovate-oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style short, 

 stigma small capitate. Nutlets 4, or fewer, ovoid-oblong, dorsally compressed, 

 .attached by a small scar above their middle. 



IH. Benthami. Clarke. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 15-17,000 ft.; Parang Pass, Thomson; Kyoongar Pass, 

 Strachey $ Winterbottn/n. 



Root long, vertical, crowned by a tuft of leaves longer than the inflorescence ; but 

 one example has a stem of 3 in., with inflorescence as in Eritrichium. Leaves 3 in. 

 Flowers ^ in. diam. Nutlets -g- in., backs diamond-shaped, scabrous with subsessile 

 .glochidia. 



19. BOTXXRXOSPERIKUaX, Sunge. 



Weak herbs, annual or Biennial, strigose or hirsute. Leaves alternate, ovate 

 or lanceolate. Floivers small, blue or white, axillary, pedicelled, the upper 

 going off into a bracteate raceme. Calyx 5-partite ; lobes narrow, not (or 

 scarcely) enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube short, throat with 5 scales ; lobes 5, 

 imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included ; anthers ovate, 

 obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style short, stigma capitate. Nutlets 4, 

 ellipsoid, without angles, granular-scabrid : scar near the iuidrl:-i of th"< inner 

 face, large, hollow, smooth, with an indexed margin; carpophore oblong. 

 Species 2 or 3; from N. India to Amurland. 



B. tenellum, Fisch. $ Mey. Ind. Sem. 1835, 24; adpressedly hispid, 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate lower petioled, pedicels axillary as long as the calyx, 

 scar of the nutlets elliptic longitudinal. DC. Prodr. x. 116. B. asperugoides, 

 Sieb. $ Zucc. Fam. Nat. Jap. ii. 26. Anchusa tenella, Hornem. ; Roem. $ Sch. 

 Syst. iv. 100. A. zeylanica, Jacq. f. Ed. i. 47, t. 29. Cynoglossum diffusion, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 7 ; Wall. Cat. 925. C. ^rostratum, Don 

 Prodr. 100. 



