10 tENTANDRIA MONOCtYNlA.' BoragO, 



ones opposite. Flozvers solitary, drooping. Calyx conical, with 

 five horn'.ets behind. 



Beng. Chhota-kiApa. 



Common oyer most parts of India, producing flowers and ripe 

 seed the greatest part of the year. 



Root fibrous, annual. — Stem scarcely any, but many dichotomous, 

 hairy, spreading branches of about a foot "in length. — The lower 

 leaves opposite; the upper ones alternate; ail sessile, stem-clasp- 

 ing, sub-sagittate, entire, hairy. — Peduncles opposite to, or between 

 the leaves, drooping, hairy, one-flowered.— Flowers pale blue. — Ca- 

 lyx five-parted, with the fissures extended into five recurved hornlets; 

 divisions adhering by their margins, giving to the whole a conical 

 shape. — Corol a little longer than the calyx ; divisions cordate with 

 filiform apices. —Anthers united into a firm, taper cone over the 

 mouth of the tube of the corol. 



2. B. zeylanica, Willd. Sp. i. 777.* 



Annual, erect, ramous, strigose. Cauline leaves opposite, sub- 

 sessile, lanceolate -.floral ones alternate with the solitary, one-flower- 

 ed, drooping peduncles. 



A native of various parts of India. Flowering time the cold season. 



Moot annual. — Stem erect, branches opposite, round, jointed, 

 hispid with numerous sharp, stiff bristles of two sizes ; the larger in- 

 serted on coloured glandular elevations ; the height of the whole plant 

 in a good soil from four to six, or even eight feet Leaves oppo- 

 site, sub-sessile, lanceolate, entire, harsh, with a few stiff, scattered 

 hairs. Floral leaves terminal, alternate, small, sessile, cordate- 

 lanceolate. — Peduncles sub-solitary, one-flowered, drooping, sub-al- 

 ternate, longer than the floral leaves, round, hairy. — Bractes no other 

 than the floral leaves. — Flowers cernuous, pale-blue. — Calyx five- 

 leaved; leaflets adhering slightly near the base, and at their adhesions 

 forming five-sharp ridges, but without the posterior horns of JBorago 



* Trichodesma, R. Brown, 1. cit.— N. W. 



