Trigonotis.] c. BORAGINE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 173 



5. T. Kookeri, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 858 ; leaves elliptic acute hispid- 

 villous, racemes lateral and terminal elongate ebracteate, calyx-lobes oblong 

 .acuminate hispid villous. 



KHASIA MTS.^lt. 5-6000 ft.; Moflong, ff. /. $ T. 



Stems 2 feet kt least, stout, branched, patently hispid villous. Cauline leaves 2 

 by -f in., base obtuse ; petiole 0-f in. Eacemes 3-6 in., often peduncled, axillary ; 

 pedicels |-^ in. Calyx-lobes in fruit -^ in. Flowers ^-^ in. cliam. Nutlets -L in. 

 diam. This is an ennobled species of Trigonotis, much finer than the others, but the 

 nutlets nearly as of T. ovalifolia. 



27. IKYOSOTXS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial, hairy herbs. Leaves alternate or densely crowded. 

 Racemes elongate, ebracteate, or flowers subsessile and solitary in the penulti- 

 mate axils. Calyx shortly or deeply 5-fid, hardly altered in fruit. Corolla blue, 

 changing to red, or white, tube short, mouth closed with scales ; lobes 5, twisted 

 to the right in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included ; anthers ovate, 

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

 oblong, longer than broad, shining, smooth, or hairy upwards ; scar basal, small ; 

 receptacle flat. Species 30 ; temperate regions of the N. hemisphere ; in Aus- 

 tralia and New Zealand. 



SECT. I. Eumyosotis, A. DC. Weatf'herbs. Leaves distant. Racemes 

 elongate, scorpioid. Nutlets glabrous. 



1. 1WC. caespitosa, Schultz Fl. Starb.u. 11; hairs of stem .adpressed, 

 leaves oblong lowest spathulate, pedicels longer than the calyx, calyx-teeth 

 triangular-lanceolate about as long as the tube adpressedly hairy. DC. Prodr. 

 x. 105, with syn. ; Syme Engl. Bot. t. 1103 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 235. M. 

 palustris, Benth. in Royle III. 305, not exactly of With. M. lingulata, Lehm. 

 Asperif. 110, name only. 



TEMPERATE and SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, from Kunawur to Kashmir and Baltis- 

 than ; Royle, Falconer, Thomson. DISTEIB. From Cabul to Siberia, Europe and N. 

 Africa, N. America. 



Stems 4-20 in. Leaves 1 by \ in. Eacemes 2-8 in. ; lower fruiting pedicels \ 

 in. and upwards. Calyx in fruit ^ in., sparsely minutely.. strigose ; teeth scarcely 

 acute. Corolla in, diam. Style shorter than the calyx. The name M. lingulata, 

 Lehm. is one year prior to M. ccespitosa, Schultz ; but Boissier and most authors do 

 not consider the notice of the plant by Lehmann to be worthy the rank of a " descrip- 

 tion." 



2. 1H. sylvatica, Hoffm. Deutsch. FL i. 85 ; hairs of stem spreading, 

 leaves oblong lowest petioled, pedicels longer than the calyx, calyx villous some 

 of the hairs spreading at base, teeth lanceolate longer than the tube, corolla - 

 in. diam. limb flat, DC. Prodr. x. 107 with syn. ; Syme Engl. Bot. t. 1107 ; 

 Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 237. M. montana, Besser ; Fl. Dan. t. 583. M. pallens, 



Wall. Cat. 7019; DC. I. c. 112. 



ALPINE WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 7-12,000 ft., from Kumaon to Kashmir, frequent ; 

 Wallich, &c. DISTRIB. Europe ; N. West Asia to the Canaries. 



Stems 4-16 in., mostly erect, sparingly villous. Leaves l by \ in., lowest 

 broader. Racemes 2-8 in., often divided ; lower fruiting pedicels usually i in. or 

 more, hardly longer than the calyx in Wallich's M. pallens. Calyx in fruit - in., 

 with many ascending hairs and some patent from the base; teeth in fruit erect hardly 

 connivent. 



3. M. arvensis, Hoffm. Deutsch. Fl. i. 85; hairs of stein spreading, 

 leaves oblong lowest petioled, pedicels longer than the calyx, calyx villous 



