172 c. BORAGINE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Trigonotis. 



not or slightly enlarged. Corolla small, blue or white ; tube shorter than the 

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

 Stamens 5, included; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; "style 

 filiform, not elongate, stigma capitate. Nutlets 4, tetrahedral with 4 acute or 

 submarginate edges, hardly longer than broad, shining black ; scar small, basal,, 

 substipitate. Species 10 ; Central and E. Asia. 



* Nutlets glabrous (three very closely allied species). 



1. T. microcarpa, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 858; leaves petioled ovate 

 acute minutely strigose on both surfaces, racemes terminal, solitary axillary 

 pedicels added, fruiting sepals oblong acuminate. Myosotis microcarpa, Wall. 

 Cat. 928. Eritrichium microcarpum, DC. Prodr. x. 123. 



ALPINE NEPAL and SIKKIM, alt. 10,000 ft. ; Wallick, J. D. H. 



Stems 6-20 in., procumbent, divided. Cauline leaves 1 by \ in., mucronate, obtuse 

 or rounded at the base, petiole | in. ; radical leaves rather larger petioled, 1^ in.. 

 Racemes in fruit 3-6 in,, ebracteate, i.e. lower scattered pedicels in the axils of fully- 

 developed leaves ; pedicels in. Calyx-lobes 5 in., in fruit fe- in. Flowers | in. 

 diam. Nutlets i in. diam. 



2. T. rotundifolia, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 858 ; cauline leaves sessile or 

 petioled elliptic narrowed at both ends minutely strigose, racemes terminal, 

 calyx-lobes elliptic acute. Myosotis rotundifolia, Wall. Cat. 930. Eritrichium 

 rotundifolium, DC. Prodr. X. 128. 



SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft.; Boyle; Kumaon, Wallich; Sikkim 

 (Lachen), J. D. H. 



Stems weak, 2-4 in. Cauline leaves -f in. ; radical long-petioled, some orbicu- 

 cular but many spathulate. Does not differ from T. microcarpa except in being 

 smaller, with subsessile leaves more attenuate at the base. Wallieh's example is not 

 in good fruit. 



3. T. multicaulis, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 858 ; cauline leaves sessile or 

 petioled elliptic narrowed at both ends minutely strigose, racemes terminal, 

 calyx-lobes in fruit ovate acute. Myosotis multicaulis, Watt. Cat. 7020. Eri- 

 trichium multicaule, DC. Prodr. x. 123. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; NEPAL ; Wallich. SIKKIM, alt. 10-12,000 ft. ; 

 Latong, J. D. H. 



Stems 10 in. Leaves f by in., upper sessile. Pedicels |- in. Described from 

 Wallieh's examples, which resemble his T. rotundifolia, but are larger. The Sikkim 

 ones are much smaller, with fruiting pedicels hardly exceeding in. and the nutlets 

 brown yellow. 



** Nutlets minutely patently hairy on all sides. 



4. T. ovalifolia, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 858; leaves petioled ovate 

 minutely strigose on both surfaces, racemes terminal with solitary axillary pedicels 

 added, fruiting sepals elliptic acuminate. Myosotis ovalifolia, Wall, in Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ed. Carey fy Watt. ii. 9, and Cat. 927. Eritrichium ovalifolium, DC. 

 Prodr. x. 123. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA; Nepal and Sikkim, alt. 8-12,000 ft,, frequent; 

 Wallich. J. D. H., &c. 



Stems 8-24 in., mostly prostrate. Cauline leaves j-l|- in., from elliptic to orbicu- 

 lar, obtuse, base often cordate, petiole -|- in. Pedicels sometimes all axillary -f 

 in. ; terminal racemes generally added. Calyx-lobes in fruit - in. Flowers % in. 

 diam. and upwards. Nutlets ^ jV in. diam. Had there been as few specimens of 

 this as of the three preceding species, the axillary-flowered examples would indubit- 

 ably have been reckoned distinct from Wallieh's terminal-racemed ones. 



