* yENTANaniA monagIynia. Lilhospermitm. 



TOURNEFORTIA. 



Calyx five-parted. Corolla hypocrateriform or sub-rotate ; throat 

 naked. Stamina enclosed. Stigma peltate, sub-conic. Berry 

 with two nuts ; each two-seeded, — R. Brown. 



1 . T. argentea. 



Erect, covered with sericeous tomentum ; leaves ovate ; cymes de- 

 compound ; corolla rotate ; stigma sessile, biiid. 



Buglossum lanuginosum, Rumph. amb. iv. 119- t. 55. 



I have specimens of this singularly beautiful plant covered with 

 blossoms and fruit, which were gathered by my esteemed friend Mr. 

 W. Jack on the Island of Carnicobar in October 1819— ,1 have 

 found it in great abundance on different parts of the shores of the 

 Island of Mauritius — N. W. 



2. T. viridijlora, Wall. See Lithospermum viridiflorura, Roxb. 



LITHOSPERMUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 241. 



Corol funnel-shaped, throat perforated, and naked. Calyx five- 

 parted. Germ four-celled, with one pendulous ovulum in each. 



1. L. viridiflorum, R. 



Shrubby, erect, heaves ovate-lanceolate, rugose, entire. Spikes 

 peduncled, twice or thrice dichotomous, recurved. 



A native of Chittagong, where it blossoms during the rains, and 

 cool season. 



Stems erect, ligneous, soon throwing out many, patent alternate, 

 round, hairy branches; whole height from three to five feet — Leaves 

 alternate, petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acute, rugose, entire, a little 

 hairy underneath; length. from four to six inches, and from two to 

 three broad. — Peduncles at first terminal, but becoming lateral; aa 



