174 c. BORAGINEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Myositia.. 



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

 corolla - in. diam. limb concave. Engl. Bot. t. 2558. M. intermedia, Link* 

 Enum. i. 164; DC. Prodr. x. 108; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 239. 



SUBALPINE KASHMIR ; Aitchison. DISTRIB. Cabul and Siberia to N. Africa and 

 Europe. 



Hardly distinguishable from M. sylvatica but by the smaller corolla. Pedicels in 

 fruit longer. Calyx-teeth in fruit connivent over the nutlets. Aitchison's example is- 

 as near English M. arvensis as may be ; there are other Kashmir examples supposed 

 to be M. arvensis or M. intermedia, but they cannot be distinguished in the her- 

 barium from M. sylvatica. 



4. IK. strict a. Link. Enum. i. 164 ; hairs of stem spreading, leaves 

 oblong lower subsessile, lower pedicels in fruit shorter than the calyx, calyx 

 villous some of the hairs spreading at base, teeth lanceolate longer than the 

 tube erect in fruit. DC. Prodr. x. 109; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 239. 



KASHMIR, Falconer ; alt. 5-6000 ft., Thomson ; Pangee, Dr. Watt. DISTRIB. 

 Cabul, W. Asia, N. Africa, Europe. 



Stems 3-8 in. erect. Leaves f by in., narrowed at both ends. Racemes 3-5 in., 

 often reduced nearly to a spike, with closely approximated flowers. 



SECT. 2. Small, densely tufted herbs. Leave's crowded. Flowers solitary, 

 sub-sessile. Nutlets hairy upwards. 



5. M. Kookeri, Clarke ; leaves obovate-spathulate villous. 



ALPINE SIKKIM, alt. 15-17,000 ft.; Kinchinjow, Lama Kangra, and Phulloong, 

 J. D. H. 



Appearing like a small tufted Alpine Cerastium, but with bright blue flowers. 

 Stems 1-3 in., repeatedly dichotomous, most densely clothed with leaves in appear- 

 ance whorled, lower withering or scale-like. Leaves \-^ in., very obtuse, with much 

 soft straight long white hair. Flowers just emergent from the tufts, nearly as of 

 Myosotis arvensis and sylvatica. Nutlets nearly as of M. arvensis, but with some 

 erect hairs in the upper half. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



M. ROBTJSTA, Don Prodr. 101; DO. Prodr. x. 112; roots perennial fusiform; 

 stem 1^ feet, ascending, simple, hairy ; leaves 3 by f in. sessile, elliptic oblong, 

 acute, hairy on both surfaces ; racemes paired, short, ebracteate ; calyx-segments ovate 

 obtuse, larger than the corolla-tube. Nepal, G-ossainthan, Wallich. Known only by 

 Don's description, which does not accord with any of the described species. 



28. LITHOSFERIVIUBX, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs, hispid or rough. Leaves alternate. Floivers white 

 blue or yellow, axillary solitary or in terminal bracteate racemes. Sepals 5, 

 linear. Coi'olla tubular-funnel-shaped, throat naked or with 5 small scales ; 

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

 oblong, obtuse or apiculate. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style filiform or cylindric, 

 stigma usually 2-fid. Nutlets 4, erect, ovoid, stony, smooth or rough ; scar 

 flat, basal ; receptacle nearly flat. Species 40, in the temperate N. hemispheres, 

 Africa, and S. America. 



1. Xi. arvense, Linn.; DC. Prodr. x. 74; strigose, leaves lanceolate 

 lower petioled obovate-oblong, corolla white rarely blue tube not longer than 

 the calyx, nutlets ovoid-oblong tuberculate. Enyl. Bot. t. 123; Boiss. FL 

 Orient, iv. 216. Margarospernium arvense, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 

 122. 



