Boravo. rrXTANDitiA monooinia. 9 



Stamens enclosed, anthers peltate. Stigma capitate. Nuts four, 

 umbilicate and perforated at the base. — R. Brown. 



] . M, ovalifolia, Wall. 



Stem slender, procumbent, with short ad pressed hairs. Leaves 

 ovate, sub-cordate, petioled, acute ; racemes long, filiform ; seeds 

 very smooth, sharply triangular. 



Grows wild in Nepala; time of flowering the rainy season. 



Root fibrous- — Stem very thin, slightly angular, simple, or sub-di- 

 chotomous, as well as the leaves and racemes beset with numerous 

 rough, short, white, erect, adpressed, subulate hairs. — Leaves remote, 

 measuring from an inch to an inch and a half, with a subulate point, 

 ciliate, nerves sub-opposite, elevated beneath ; radical sub-cordate. — ■ 

 Petioles slender, channelled; the lowermost long, and equalling the 

 leaves, the uppermost scarcely one-fourth of their size. — Raceme ter- 

 minal, naked, most slender, from six to eight inches long, while young 

 revolute, afterwards quite straight, with minute, remote, nodding, 

 pedicelled flowers. — Calyx turbinate, five-cornered, hairy, with lan- 

 ceolate, acute lacinia. — Corolla blue, twice as long as the calyx, 

 with a ventricose tube, and ovate, obtuse lacinia ; valves, broad- 

 ish. — Anthers ovate, peltate, enclosed. — Seeds brown, shining, '-per- 

 fectly smooth and naked, with very short prominent angles. 



Obs. This species comes near to M. latifolia of Poirer, and 

 macrophylla, Marsch. a Bieberst. From the former it differs in its 

 simple racemes and sharply three-cornered seeds ; from the latter in 

 having scarcely cordate leaves, and perfectly smooth seeds, all of 

 which generally come to maturity. — N. W. 



BORAGO. Schreb, Gen. N. 248. 

 Corol rotate. Throat closed with rays. 



1. B. indica, Willd. Sp. i. 776.* 



Annual, diffuse. Leaves sub-sagittate, stem-clasping, the lower 



* Trichodesma, Brown, prodr. Nov. Holl. U9G.-N. W. 



