170 c. BORAGINE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Mertensia. 



ovoid-oblong, obscurely dorsally compressed, smooth, slightly angular ; scar 

 small, triangular, at the very base of the inner angle, not strongly margined.-- 

 Species 15 ; in E. Europe, extratropical Asia, and N. America. 



Trigonitis differs by its short corolla-tube and shortly trigonous (not oblong) 

 nutlets. Myosotis differs by its short corolla-tube and twisted corolla-lobes. The 

 length of the corolla is variable in the species of this genus. 



1. UK. elongata, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 857 ; adpressedly hairy, leaves 

 oblong lower long-petioled spathulate, raceme many-flowered at length elongate, 

 corolla-tube a little longer than the calyx, scales in the throat very small. 

 Lithospermum elongatum, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 121, t. 126. Eritri- 

 chium elongatum, A. DC. Prodr. x. 124. 



KASHMIR, alt. 5-8000 ft. ; Jacqucmont, Falconer. 



Rootstock somewhat stout, annual stems 8 in. Radical leaves 2 by in. ; petiole 

 H in.; cauline 2 by | in., sessile, acute, hairs adpressed from tubercular bases. 

 Raceme in fruit 3 in., long-peduncled ; pedicels | in., rigid, suberect. Calyx-lobes 

 in., linear, sparingly strigose; in fruit | in. Corolla ^ in. diam., tube | in. long; 

 scales in the throat very small ; lobes spreading. Anthers subsessile, above the 

 scales. Style | in.. Nutlets ~ in., white or pale, shining. Described from Jacque- 

 mont's specimen. 



2. 1H. xnoltkioides, Clarke] patently hairy, leaves oblong or elliptic 

 lower long-petioled spathulate, racemes many-flowered, corolla-tube nearly 

 twice as long as the calyx, scales in the throat small. Anchusa moltkioides, 

 Benth. in Royle III. 305, t. 73, fig. 1 ; DC. Prodr. x. 51. Lithospermum 

 moltkioides, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 122. 



KASHMIR, alt. 8000 ft., Falconer ; near Islamabad, Thomson. PANGEE ; Dr. Watt. 



Very near M. elongata ; leaves more softly hairy, hairs on the midrib beneath 

 patent or reflexed. Racemes shorter peduncled. Calyx larger. Corolla-tube ^ by 

 i^ in. Nutlets brown- black, not more excavate at the base than are those of M. 

 elongata. 



VAR. Thomsoni; radical leaves large elliptic acute, corolla exceeding in. diam. 

 with tube in. long. Mertensia sp. n. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. Kashmir, alt. 

 11,000 ft.; near Islamabad, Thomson. Radical leaves 3 by l\ in., base subobtuse. 

 Pedicels in fruit \-\ in. Sepals in fruit ^ in. and upwards, narrowly oblong, patently 

 hairy. Nutlets exceeding |- in. brown-black. 



3. IK. echioides, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 857 ; softly hairy, leaves oblong 

 lower long-petioled spathulate, raceme dense many-fld., corolla-tube one-third 

 longer than the calyx-lobes erect scales in the throat obsolete, anthers exsert 

 from the tube. Lithospermum echioides, Benth. in Royle III. 305 ; DC. Prodr. 

 x. 83. L. secundiflorum, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 120, t. 125. Eritrichium 

 secundifloruin, A. DC. Prodr. x. 124. 



KASHMIR and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 5-12,000 ft. ; from the Upper Indus to the 

 southern face of the Himalaya, frequent ; Royle, Falconer, &c. 



Stems 6-15 in. Leaves 1| by in., subobtuse. Peduncles long ; racemes 1-3 in., 

 dense even in fruit ; pedicels | f in., linear. Corolla-tube \-\ in., lobes in. 

 Filaments linear, distinct; anthers completely exsert, but not reaching above its lobes. 

 Style and nutlets as of M. elongata, Easily distinguished from all the other species 

 of Mertensia by its erect corolla-lobes. 



4. XIX. primuloides, Clarke ; strigose, leaves small elliptic lower very 

 shortly petioled, raceme dense not many-flowered, corolla-tube ^ in. twice as 

 long as the calyx, scales in the throat distinct. Eritrichium primuloides, Dene, 

 in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 123, t. 128 ; A. DC. Prodr. x. 125. 



ALPINE WESTERN HIMALAYA, Jacquemont ; Sai and Gilgit, alt. 15,000 ft., Col. 

 Tanner. 



