BOTHRIOSPBBMUM.] BORAGUNACE^. 97 



in bud. Stamens 5, included. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style short, 

 from the base of the lobes, stigma capitate. Nutlets 4, ellipsoid, 

 rounded and granular-scabrid on their backs ; scar large, near the 

 middle of the inner face, hollow and smooth and with an inflexed 

 margin, carpophore oblong. Species 4, in N. and Trop. Asia 

 and in the Mascarene Islands. 



B. tenellum, Fisch. and Mey. Hort. Petrov i, 24 ; F. B. I. iv> 167. Prain 

 Seng. PL 719. Cynoglossum diffusum, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. t, 457. C. prostratum 

 Don Prod. 100. 



A weak prostrate or diffuse herb. Steins elongate, 6-18 in. long, appressedly 

 hispid. Leaves about 1 in. long, ovate-oblong, subacute, "entire, softly 

 hairy, the lowest petioled. Flowers white, distant, or the upper in close 

 bracteate racemes, pedicels as long as the calyx. Corolla % in. across, 

 tube gibbons. Nutlets with an elliptic longitudinal scar. 



Kheri district of N. Oudh, Gorakhpur, Bundelkhand (Edgeworth). 

 DISTBIB. Himalaya eastwards to Bhutan ascending to 3,500 ft. ; in 

 Bengal it is common as a weed of cultivation ; found also in the Punjab 

 and in the C. Provinces, extending to China, Japan and Polynesia. 



9, ARNEBIA, Forsk. ; FL Brit. Ind. iv, 175. 



Annual or perennial erect or diffuse herbs, root often staining red. 

 Leaves alternate, flowers subsessile, dimorphic, yellow, violet 

 or whitish, in simple spikes or racemes, or in slightly branching 

 cymes, bracts leaf- like. Calyx 6-partite ; lobes lanceolate or linear, 

 not or slightly enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube slender, straight, 

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

 bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, attached low down on the tube 

 in the long-styled flowers,or in the throat and -|-exserted in the short- 

 styled flowers ; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; 

 style shortly bipartite, stigmas capitate. Nutlets 4, ovoid, oblong or 

 acuminate, erect ; scar basal, large, triangular, flat, shortly produced 

 npwards along the inner face. Species 12, in N. Africa and W. 

 and C. Asia. 



A. hispidissima, DC. Prod. , 94; F. B. I. iv, 176; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii. 

 222. Lithospermum hispidissimum, Benth. in Eoyle III. 305. 



A diffuse, very hispid, annual or biennial herb.! Stem* 3-15 in. long, branch- 

 ing from a woody^base, densely clothed with long, white, stiff, spreading 

 bulbous-based hairs. Leaves sessile, f-2 in. long, linear-lanceolate, sub- 

 obtuse, densely hispid on both sides. Flowers in compact secund racemes 



