Plants of the Punjab. 



803 



Herbs, Ebect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Gastrocotyle 

 hispida, 



BoiiAGINACE^. 



F. B. Liv.lGS. 



The Plains at 

 1,000 ft. 

 Baluchistan. 



(C. B. Clarke). 



Petals united. 



small, spreading with bristly hairs ; leaves 1-2 in. 

 oblong, lowest prolonged into the stalk ; flowers small, 

 solitary and shortly stalked or in small axillarj^ racemes, 

 calyx lobes 5, |-| in., coarsely bristly, corolla 1-5 in. 

 diam., tube short, closed with scales, lobes 5, blunt, spread- 

 ing, stamens 5 Vv-ithin the corolla tube ; nutlets 4, |-i 

 in., ovoid, incurved, rough, apex with 4 ridges. 



Lycopsis arvensis, 



BoRAGINACEiE. 



F. B. I.iv. 168. 

 Himalaya. 

 3-8,000 ft. 

 Near Peshawar. 

 Kashmir. 



medium size, annual, bristly ; leaves 2 by i in., 

 oblong, short-pointed, upper stem-clasping, lower stalked ; 

 flow^ers I in., white, less commonly blue, on stalks 1-5 in., 

 in terminal I'acemes. bracts -| in., lanceolate or lower leaf- 

 like, calyx lobes 5, linear, l)ristly, i in., in fruit i in., 

 corolla tube I in., curved, lobes 5, nearly equal, | in., 

 blunt, spreading, stamens 5. nearly at the bottom of the 

 corolla tube : nutlets 4, |-^ in., ovoid, wrinkled. 



Nonnea pulla, 



BORAGINACE^. 



F B. I. iv. 169. 

 The Plains. 



medium size, much branched, hair}' and bristly ; 

 leaves 2 by i in., oblong, short-pointed, upper nearly 

 stem-clasping, lower stalked : flowers I in., blackish-purple, 

 on stalks |-J in., in racemes, dense-flowered, 2-5 in., bracts 

 1 in., leaflike, calyx Jin., in fruit | in., nearly globular, 

 enclosing the nu'tlets, lobes 5, long-pointed, corolla tube 

 I in., straight without scales at the mouth, lobes 5, | in., 

 blunt, half- spreading, stamens 5, enclosed in the corolla 

 tube ; nutlets 4, | in., curved inwards, ovoid, wrinkled in 

 a netv;ork. 



Mertensia elongata, 



Boraginace^. 

 F.B. I.iv. 170. 

 Kashmir, 

 5-8,000 ft. 



small, perennial, rootstock stout, stems annual, 

 hairy with the hairs laid against the stem and with broad 

 bases ; leaves oblong, radical, 2 by | in,, long-stalked with 

 the blade prolonged into the stalk, stem leaves 2 by | 

 in., sessile ; flowers I in., purplish 1)lue on stiff nearly erect 

 stalks -^ in. in racemes, many-flowered, long-stalked, leng- 

 thened in fruit to 3| in., calyx lobes 5, | in., linear, in fruit 

 •i in., corolla ^ in.* diam., tube I in. long, lobes spreading, 

 a little longer than the calyx, scales in the throat very 

 small, stamens 5, included in the corolla tube, style thread- 

 Hke, very long; nutlets 4, J^ in., ovoid, oblong, smooth, 

 slightly angular, white or pale, shining. 



