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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entihe. 



Cynoglossum 

 nervosum, 



BoRAGINACE-a2. 



F. B. L iv. 158. 

 Himalaya, 

 10-12,000 ft. 

 Jalouri Pass, Kulu. 

 The Chor. 

 Pangi. 



Petals united. 



very like the last species, but leaves more narrowly 

 lanceolate, racemes looser, flowers larger, nutlets more 

 densely bristly on the margins. 



Lindelofla spectabilis, 



Boraginace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 159. 

 Himalaya, 

 10-12,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, Pir 

 Panjal. 



medium size, perennial, hairy ; leaves radical 2-4 

 in., long-stalked, lanceolate, lower stem leaves stalked, 

 3 in., nearly heart-shaped, upper stem leaves oblong, 

 sessile, stem-clasping, hairy on both surfaces ; flowers 

 I in., deep blue, in dense long bractless racemes, calyx 

 lobes 5, -1- in., blunt or nearly short-pointed, sHghtly hairy 

 or woolly, corolla tube | in., one to three times as long as 

 the calyx, lobes 5, i in., crowned with scales in the mouth, 

 forming a cone, lobes blunt, round, spreading, stamens 

 5, scarcely protruding above the mouth scales, style long, 

 stigma small ; nutlets 4, depressed, rounded at the base, 

 margins bristly. 



Lindelofla Benthami, very like the last species, but the leaves narrower, 



Boraginace^. flowers on branching racemes, corolla lobes nearly erect. 



F. B. I. iv. 159. 

 Kashmir, 

 11-15,000 ft. 



SolenanthiiS 

 circinnatus, 



Lendi, lenwa. 

 Boraginace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 160. 

 Himalaya, 12,000 ft. 

 Pangi (Watt). 



irledium size, perennial, hairy ; leaves radical 6 

 by 2| in., heart-shaped, thin, stalk 8 in., stem-leaves 3 

 by IJ in., oblong-lanceolate, almost stem-clasping ; flowers 

 I in., blue, in brandling terminal racemes, calyx lobes 5, 

 1 by yV i"-' oblong, corolla tube | in., scales in the 

 mouth lobes 5, /^ in., nearly erect, stamens 5 long, pro- 

 trudin ; far, style long, thread-like, stigma small ; nutlets 4, 

 forming a pyramid |-^ in. diam., densely bristly, especi- 

 ahy at the margins. The root, mulin, is exported to the 

 plains. 



