Onosma. kntandria monooynia. IS 



ported from Gosain-Than, probably also from Thibet, as a drug, 

 under the native name, mentioned above. — N. W. 



2. O. bracteititm, Wall. 



Erect; densely hispid and scabrous ; leaves lanceolate, acute, three- 

 nerved, cinereous and villous beneath, the uppermost ovate, stem- 

 clasping, as well as the long bractes ending in a most slender fili- 

 form acumen ; calyx longer than the tubular corolla, divided into 

 live unequal, linear leaves, about as long as the bractes. 



Specimens of this elegant plant were gathered at Shree-nwgwr by 

 Kamroop, a brahmun whom I have stationed as a collector of plants, 

 with my learned and esteemed friend Capt. W. S. Webb. — Native 

 name Lalgiri. 



The whole plant is beset with small vesicular dots, terminating in 

 long, hollow, rigid, shining bristles, becoming yellowish when the 

 plant is dried.' — Stem several feet high, round, divided into several hol- 

 low branches. — Leaves scattered, copious, approximate, sessile, at- 

 tenuated into a sharp point, four or five inches long, entire, dotted 

 and very hispid above ; covered below with grayish-white or silvery, 

 short, soft down, with hispid nerves. The uppermost become gra- 

 dually smaller and more ovate, ending in a very long, slender acumen. 

 — Racemes terminal, numerous, corymbose, sub-sessile, recurved, 

 from three to five inches long, covered with long, soft, white hairs. 

 — Bractes imbricated on one side of the raceme, and nearly cover- 

 ing the flowers, one under each calyx, lanceolate, their acumen very 

 long, and almost filiform. — Flowers large, crowded, purplish, sessile. 

 — Calt/x divided to the base into five unequal, linear, erect, woolly 

 leaflets. — Corolla shorter than the calyx, villous on the ouiside, tu- 

 bular, slightly five-cornered, widening toward its mouth ; lacinia 

 small, ovate, equal, obtuse, ciliated. — Filaments inserted a little be- 

 low the middle of the corolla on five elevated angles, equalling the 

 linear anthers which scarcely reach the mouth of the coiolla; with 

 the bases of the. latter bifid, slightly twisted, and cohering. — Stifle fi- 



