Mertensia.~] c. BORAGINEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 171 



Stems 3 in., densely leafy below. Leaves ^ by in., narrowed at both ends; 

 petiole short or very broad. Peduncle 1 in. Raceme in flower ^ in. ; pedicels ^ in. 

 Calyx-lobes in., narrowly oblong. Corolla ^ in. diam. Anthers subexsert, over- 

 topping the small scales. Style ^ in. Fruit unknown. 



VAR. Tanneri ; leaves 2 in, linear-spathulate, calyx-lobes \ in., corolla violet- 

 purple, tube ^ in. long. Gilgit and Astor, Col. Tanner. This looks like a distinct 

 species, but there is only a fragment (in flower). 



5. IK. tibetica, Clarke ; hispid, leaves small subradical long-petioled 

 elliptic, peduncles long subscapose, corolla-tube -f in. five times as long as the 

 calyx, anthers included, scales in the corolla-throat large. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Karakorum, alt. 14-16,000 ft., Clarke. 



Leaves all subradical, f by ^ in., petiole 1 in. Peduncles 2-4 in. ; racemes 1-4 in.; 

 pedicels in. Sepals in., narrowly oblong ; in fruit i in. Corolla-tube elongate- 

 funnel-shaped, in. wide in the throat ; lobes in. and upwards, subquadrate ; scales 

 half as long as the lobes, obtuse, emarginate ; anthers entirely below the scales. 



6. IK. racemosa. Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 857 ; minutely hairy, radical 

 leaves long-petioled ovate cauline ovate to lanceolate, racemes lax few-flowered, 

 corolla-tube half as long again as the calyx. Myosotis racemosa, Benth. in 

 Royle III 305. M. longiflora. Wall Cat. 929; A. DC. Prodr. x. 113. Litho- 

 spermum ovalifolium, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 119, t. 124. Eritrichium 

 nemorosum, A. DC. I. c. 123. Anchusa racemosa, DC. Prodr. x. 50. 



TEMPERATE WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 7-10,000 ft. ; Gurwhal and Kumaon, frequent 

 near Simla ; Royle, Munro, Madden, &c. 



Ste?ns 3-8 in., weak, nearly glabrous. Radical leaves 1-1 in., often suborbicular, 

 obtuse, base sometimes cordate ; petiole 1-4 in. ; cauline similar, smaller, often 

 nearly all petioled. Racemes subsessile, i.e. bracteate at the base ; pedicels attaining 

 ^-^ in. Sepals ^L in., linear ; in fruit i in., villous. Corolla -$ in. diam. ; tube 

 i in., scales in the throat prominent ; anthers below the scales. Style f-^ in. Nutlets 

 as of M. moltkioides. 



25. HKOI.TK.ZA, Lchm. 



Corolla abbreviated with small erect lobes hardly overtopping the calyx. 

 Anthers long exsert on filiform filaments. Otherwise as Mertensia. 



BK. parviflora, Clarke ; minutely hairy, leaves linear-oblong, racemes 

 peduncled dense scorpioid ebracteate. Craniospermum parviflorum, Dene, in 

 Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 126, t. 130; A. DC. Prodr. x. 175. 



KASHMIR, alt. 6-8000 ft. ; Thomson, Aitchison. DISTRIB. Cabul. 



RootstocJc woody; annual stems 3-10 in., suberect, with sometimes a long trailing 

 stem added. Leaves 2 by \ in. Racemes 1-2 in., dense, sometimes forked ; pedicels 

 0- in. Calyx-lobes in.^ narrowly oblong ; in fruit | in. rather wider. Corolla 

 without scales in the throat. Filaments exsert ^ in. Style in. Nutlets ovoid- 

 oblong, acute, smooth, shining ; scar small at the base on the inner side. All the 

 other species of Moltkia have bracteate racemes. Nutlets altogether of Mtrttmsia, 

 and the plant hardly differs from M. echioides but in the abbreviated corolla and 

 longer filaments. Craniospermum has exsert anthers but is remote in habit and in 

 the fruit. 



26. TRIGONOTIS, Steo. 



Perennial herbs, weak or diffuse, more or less hairy. Leaves alternate, 

 ovate or lanceolate, mostly petioled. Racemes lax, ebracteate, or the lower 

 pedicels bracteate, or many pedicels axillary. Calyx 5-fid, or 5-partite, in fruit 



