168 c. BORAGINEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Gastrocotyle. 



Throughout N. INDIA, alt. 0-4000 ft., from the foot of the N.W. Himalaya and 

 Jubbulpore to BHOTAN and KHASIA ; not common. DISTRIB. Amurland, Japan, China, 

 with neighbouring islands, (Mauritius introduced). 



Usually prostrate or diffuse, 1-2 ft. with elongate branches and distant axillary 

 flowers ; sometimes suberect 3-6 in. with erect, close racemes. Leaves 1 by \-^ in.,> 

 subacute. Calyx-lobes in fruit |- in., lanceolate of linear. Corolla in. diam., 

 white. Nutlets ^-^ in. ; scar more than half their length. 



20. GASTROCOTYLE, Bunge. 



A hispid, diffuse herb. Leaves alternate, oblong, lowest spathulate or 

 petioled. Flowers small, axillary, solitary and shortly pedicelled, or in dense 

 small, axillary racemes. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube short, closed with scales ; 

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

 ovate, obtuse. Ovary 4-lobed ; style short, stigma subcapitate. Nutlets 4, or 

 fewer, ovoid, erect, incurved ; scar on the inner face, near their middle, oblong, 

 longitudinal, elevated, margined ; carpophore half as long as the nutlets ; apex 

 with 4 ridges. 



G-. hispida, Bunge Rel. Lehm. 405. Anchusa hispida, Forsk. FL &g.- 

 Arab. 40; DC. Prodr. x. 50 ; Boist. F Orient, iv. 158. 



PUNJAB, alt. 1000 ft. ; Thomson, &c. DISTKIB. From Egypt to Beloochistan, 

 Cabul, and Soongaria. 



Leaves 1-2 in. Calyx-lobes - in., coarsely hispid. Corolla | in. diam. Nutlets 

 - in., rugose, minutely papillose between the wrinkles, undistinguishable from 

 those of Lycopsis. 



21. ANCHUSA, m. 



Hispid or bristly herbs. Leaves alternate. Cymes dichotomous, or racemes 

 unilateral, terminal ultimately elongate. Calyx deeply 5-fid, not (or scarcely) 

 enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube straight, long or short, closed with scales ; lobes 

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

 obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style filiform, stigma small. Nutlets 4, ovoid, 

 conoid, sessile on a flat receptacle ; scar basal, concave, margined. Species 30 ; 

 Europe, Africa, and W. Asia. 



A. italica, Retz, is said to grow in Kashmir (DC. Prodr. x. 47); but it is almost 

 certainly a cultivated plant, and the specimens, which were in Royle's Herbarium, 

 were very probably from the Saharunpur Garden. 



A. sikkimensis, Clarke; erect, tall, bristly, 'leaves petioled elliptic or 

 oblong, cymes short bracteate forming a terminal panicle, corolla-tube shortly 

 exceeding the sepals. 



ALPINE SIKKIM, alt. 11-12,000 ft., Lachen and Latong, J. D. H. 



Stem 2-3 ft. Catiline leaves 2 by 1 in., subacuts ; petiole ^ in. Calyx-lobes 

 i in., narrow. Corolla ^-^ in. diam., blue. Niitlets not ripe, dorsally compressed ; 

 backs diamond-shaped, scabrous ; scar very small. The nutlets are exceedingly like 

 those of Microula, and do not agree well with those of Anchusa ; but the habit is 

 altogether that of Anchusa sempervirens, &c. Mr. Bentham has referred the species 

 to Anchusa, and it had better remain here till good fruit is obtained ; to remove it to 

 Microula would require the characters of that genus to be considerably modified. 



22. LYCOPSIS, Linn. 



Annual, hispid herbs. Leaves alternate. Flowers small, blue purple or 

 white ; racemes bracteate, terminal. Sepals 5, linear. Corolla-tube curved in 



