Lithospermum.~\ c. BORAGINE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 175 



KASHMIR ; Peshawur, Vicary. WESTERN TIBET, Thomson. DISTRIB. From Cabul,. 

 Siberia to N. Africa, Europe. 



Annual. Stems 12-24 in., erect. Catiline leaves 1 by J in., strigose, hairs often 

 from tuberculate bases. Racemes in fruit 4-10 in., pedicels ^ in.; bracts leaflike, 

 smaller upwards. Corolla 5- in. long, hairy upwards. Nutlets -g- in., gradually nar- 

 rowed upwards ; sepals in fruit | ^ in., hispid. 



2. If. tenuiflorum, Linn. f. Suppl. 130 ; stiigose, leaves oblong-linear 

 lower spathulate scarcely petioled, corolla blue rarely white tube slightly ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, nutlets ovoid somewhat suddenly acuminate tuberculate. 

 Jacq. Ic. Ear. ii. t. 313; DC. Prodr. x. 75; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 217. Myo- 

 sotis tenuifiora, Viv. Fl. Lib. 9, t. I, Jiff. 2. 



KASHMIR, alt. 5-7000 ft., Thomson. PUNJAB, Rawul Pindee, Aitchison. DISTRIB. 

 Cabul, W. Asia to Egypt and Greece. 



Very near the preceding species. Stems often divided near the base, decumbent,, 

 rarely more than 12 in. 



3. Ii. officinale, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. x. 76; hispidly hairy, leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, corolla white fading yellowish, nutlets ovoid shining white smooth, 

 Enyl. Sot. t. 134 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 218. Margarospermum officinale, 

 Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 122. 



KASHMIR ; alt. 5-8000 ft., frequent ; Falconer, Thomson, &c. 



Perennial. Stems 2-4 feet, erect, corymbose upwards. Leaves 2 by ^ in., rough 

 strigose, nerves subprominent. Hacemes in fruit 14 in. ; pedicels |- in. ; bracts 

 leaflike, smaller upwards. Corolla ^ in., hairy upwards. Nutlets in. ; sepals in 

 fruit j in. 



29. SERICOSTOIVIA, Stocks. 



Small strigose branched shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers small, axillary, 

 sessile, solitary, or the upper in a bracteate raceme. Sepals 5, narrow. Corolla- 

 tube short ; mouth wide, closed with hair ; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, 

 spreading. Stamens 5, subincluded ; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4- 

 lobed; style short, stigma subcapitate. Nutlets 4, ovoid, substipitate ; scar 

 "basal ; receptacle flat. Species 3 in W. Asia, from India to Arabia. 



1. S. pauciflorum, Stocks in Wight Ic. t. 1377 ; roughly strigose, leaves- 

 oblong subsessile, corolla white, nuts ovoid acute stony blotched with very flat 

 white tubercles. Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 172 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 804. 



W. INDIA ; Deesa. KATTYWAR (in the sands near the sea). SCINDE ; Stocks, &c. 



Attaining 12-18 in., oftener small, scrubby. Leaves 1^ by | ^ in., obtuse with a 

 minute mucro, narrowed at the base, hispid with tubercle-based hairs ; in scrubby 

 plants 5-3- in. long. Sepals in., lanceolate, hispid. Corolla \ in. diam., lobes crisp- 

 subserrulate on the margin ; tube within and base of the lobes densely hairy. Nut- 

 lets ~ in., acute. 



30. ARNEBIA JForsk. 



Annual or perennial hispid herbs, diffuse or divided near the base ; root 

 often staining red. Leaves alternate. Racemes terminal, elongate, bracteate ; 

 flowers subsessile, yellow or whiteish (in the Indian species). Sepals linear, 

 not or slightly enlarged in fruit (in the Indian species). Corolla-tube slender, 

 longer than the sepals, throat naked within ; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, 

 spreading. Stamens 5 ; much below the mouth of the tube with long style, or 

 in the threat semi-exsert with short style ; anthers small, oblong obtuse. Ovary 

 deeply 4-lobed ; style shortly bipartite, stigmas small Capitate, nearly the same 

 in the long- and short-styled flowers. Nutlets 4, ovoid-oblong or acute, erect ; 



