140 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXII. 



Herbs, erect, with Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 



Echinospermum barba- 

 tum, 



BORAGINACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 163. 

 Himalaya, 7-12,000 ft. 



Eritrichium strictum, 



BORAGINACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 164. 

 Himalaya, West of 

 Sutlej, 7-13,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Eritrichium basifixum, 



Boraginace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 165. 

 Himalaya, 18-15,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Rochelia stylaris, 



BORAGINACB^. 



F. B. I. iv. 166. 

 The Plains above 1,000 

 ft. 



Kashmir Valley. 



Bothriospermum tenel- 

 lum, 



Gastrocotyie hispida, 



BORAGINACEiE. 



F. B. L iv. 168. 



The Plains at 1,000 ft. 



Baluchistan. 



(C. B. Clarke ). 



Lycopsis arvensis, 



BORAGINACEiE. 



F. B. I. iv. 168. 

 Himalaya, 3-8,000 ft. 

 Near Peshawar, 

 Kashmir. 



Petals United. 



like the last species, but leaves oblong |-2 in., 

 racemes longer, bracts smaller, usually none at the 

 top of the raceme, calyx lobes ^^ in., oblong, nut- 

 lets j-jj-^ in., forming a pyramid of which the nut- 

 lets can be separated, two rows of hooked bristles 

 on the margins. 



small, perennial, rootstock woody, stems many, 

 white silky, stiff ; leaves 1^ by | in., linear, lower 

 stem leaves larger, hardly stalked, radical leaves 

 stalked, whithered when flowering, flowers \ in. 

 diam., blue on stalks ^-^ in. in branched race- 

 mes, 1-3 in., bracts minute in the upper part 

 of the racemes, calyx lobes 5, oblong, corolla- 

 tube short throat with 5 scales, lobes 5, blunt, 

 spreading, stamens 5 in corolla-tube, nutlets 



4, erect, j^-^t in. pyramidal, margins thin with 

 the minute hooked bristles which are united 

 at their bases, apices of most nutlets divided, 

 hooked. 



annual, stems one or two, leaves § by J in., 

 broadly lanceolate with long weak hairs, sessile 

 lower tufted, upper apart, flowers purplish blue, 

 racemes 1^ in., with many bracts, ^ in. long, nut- 

 lets ^^ in., thin smooth. 



small, annual, with long weak hairs pressed to 

 the plant surface ; leaves 1 by | in,, narrowly 

 oblong prolonged into the very short stalk ; flowers 

 ^ by Jjj in., blue or white on stalks bent down 

 in fruit in racemes 2 or 12 in. in fruit, bracts 

 leaflike ; smaller upwards, calyx lobes 5, linear, 

 j^ in-; ii^ fruit \ in., corolla -tube with or with- 

 out scales, lobes 5 small, spreading, stamens 5 

 within the corolla tube, style much longer than 

 nutlets, nutlets 2, white, rough with minute 

 processes. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



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

 oblong, lowest prolonged into the stalk ; flowers 

 small, solitary and shortly stalked or in small 

 axillary racemes, calyx lobes 5, |-g^ in., coarsely 

 bristly, corolla 1-5 in. diam., tube short closed with 

 scales, lobes 5, blunt, spreading, stamens 5 within 

 the corolla tube, nutlets 4, |-^ in., ovoid, in- 

 curved, rough, apex with 4 ridges. 



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

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

 stalked ; flowers I in. white, less commonly blue, 

 on stalks 1-5 in. in terminal racemes, bracts 

 i in., lanceolate or lower leaf-like, calyx lobes 



5, linear, bristly, i in., in fruit, \ in., corolla- 



