Trichodesma.] BORAGINES. 719 
1313. BotHriospERMUM TENELLUM — & a suc laBeks 
iv. 167. Cynoglossum diffus Pioliei; 45% 
Behar; Tirhut; N. Bengal ; “ Bengal. 
A prostrate or diffuse weak herb. 
611. Cynoglossum Linn. 
Biennial or perennial, erect, hairy herbs; leaves alternat e, 
radical petioled, cauline sessile. Flowers in elongated racemes, 
ultimately distant, sessile or the lower pedicelled, purple or 
bluish; bracts 0. Sepals connate in a eeply 5-lobed calyx; 
lobes in fruit spreading, hardly accrescent. Petals 5, connate in a 
short-tubed corolla; throat with 5 obtuse or emarginate scales ; 
lobes obtuse, imbricate in bud. Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube, 
included under the scales ; filaments short; anthers small, ovate, 
their tips hardly above the corolla-throat. Carpels connate in a 
4-lobed ovary; style short or long, from between the bases of the 
lobes; stigma small. Fruit of 4 nutlets, forming together a 
depressed mpiieia their tips hardly eae! lene the hilum, 
their bases rounded and produced down Peon outer faces 
convex or hating’ glochidiate, penne or not; carpophore 
linear, with a shortly conic base. Seeds taht or slightly 
curved ; cotyledons large, flat. 
Hispidly hairy; flowers of lower and middle thirds of inflorescence 
distinctly aw vir at Bersicy very obscurely or not at = margined, 
glochidiate on alls neeolatum 
Softly hirsute or cua: flowers of only the lower fourth of inflorescence 
os ee nutléts very prominently margined, ee 
Pei 
1314, — LANCEOLATUM FPorsk:: F B. I. iv. 156; 
C. racemosum F., . 456. 
Behar Tirhut ; N. Beng C. Bengal; E. Bengal. 
rect, annual her 
1315. tvuiaedik ve pENTIcuLATUM A, DC.; F. B. I. iv. 157. 
ota Nagpur. 
An erect, annual herb. 
612. Trichod R. Br. 
Coarse, hispid herbs; leaves opposite, or the upper alternate, 
entire. Flowers solitary, on axillary pedicels, but passing into 
