TBICHODESMA.] BORAQINACEAZ. 95 



cordate; upper surface clothed with stiff hairs seated on flattened 

 circular tubercles ; lower surface less harshly hispid, more or less 

 villous or quite glabrous except on the nerves and veins. Flowers pale 

 blue, changing to pink or white. Calyx about ^ in. long, clothed with 

 long rather stiff hairs ; segments lanceolate, acute, cordatd or hastate 

 at the base. Corolla, -fciii. long ; limb oblique, funnel-shaped ; lobes ovate, 

 abruptly accuminate. Nutlets % in. long, smooth and polished on the 

 back, rugose on inner face, scarcely margined, white or blueish when 

 ripe, 



Plentiful by road-sides and in waste ground throughout the area. Flowers 

 during the cold season. DISTIUB. Throughout India and in Ceylon, 

 ascending to ,000 ft. on the Himalaya ; extending to Afghanistan, 

 Baluchistan, Persia and the Mauritius. A most variable species as 

 regards indumentum. In what may be regarded as typical T. itidicum, 

 the stems aiid leaves are more or less villous, and sometimes much less 

 so than in specimens which have been referred to T. amplexicaule ; 

 and, as there are no other characters by which they can be distinguished 

 it will be more satisfactory to consider the latter merely as a climatal 

 form. 

 2. T, zeylanicum, R. Br. Prod. 496 ; Royle III 304 ; F. B. D. iv, 154 ; 



Watt E. D. ; Prain Beng. PL 720 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 215. Borrago zeyla- 



nica, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i t 458. 



An erect annual, 1-2 ft. high. Stems stout, densely pilose, often tinged with 

 purple. Leaves sessile or shortly petioled, 2-4 in long, lanceolate or 

 oblong, obtuse or acute, upper surface covered with short stiff, bulbous- 

 based hairs, finely pubescent beneath. Flowers pale- blue, usually in 

 terminal bract eate panicles, or with a few solitary ones in the upper 

 axils ; pedicels slender, pubescent, nodding; bracts leaf-like. Calyr 

 softly pubescent, rounded at the base ; lobes i in. long, lanceolate, 

 acute, hairy within, midrib prominent Corolla-tube in. long ; lobes 

 obovate, rounded, plicate, with a spirally twisted accuminate apex. 

 Nwt^ts grey when ripe, otherwise resembling those of T. indicum. 



Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell) Flowers in Jan. DISTRIB. From Chota Nagpur 

 and Bombay to S. India and Ceylcn ; extending to Malaya, Australia 

 and the Mascarene Islands. The leaves are used medicinally. 



7, CYNOGLOSSUM, Linn. Fl. Brit. IndViv, 155. 

 Erect, hairy, biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, radical 

 petioled. Flowers blueish or purple, usually in elongate sparingly 

 branched panicked racemes, ultimately distant, sessile, or the lower 

 shoitly pedicelled, bracts none. Calyx 5 -partite, spreading in fruit, 

 sometimes slightly enlarged. Corolla-tube short, with 5 obtuse or 

 emargin ate scales in the throat ; lobes 5, obtuse spreading, imbricate 

 in bud, Stamens 5, adnate to the corolla-tube ani included beneath 

 the scales. Ovary distinctly 4-lobed, styte short or long, from 

 between the bases of the lobes, stigma small. Nutlets 4-forming a 



