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TRIBE IV. BOEEAGE^. 



Ovary consisting of two carpels, sometimes undivided and 2- 

 celled, more frequently parted into two 1-celled nuts : style 

 rising between the segments of the ovary, simple or 2-cleft at 

 the apex : fruit dry, or very rarely somewhat fleshy, 2 or often 

 4-parting, segments in the former case 2, in the latter 1 -seeded : 

 seeds exalbuminous. — Shrubs or often herbs : root often red 

 externally : leaves often bristly and afterwards scaly : racemes 

 or spikes usually secund, and the younger ones cireinate. 



GENUS vni. BOTHRIOSPERMUM. 



Peiitandria lUoiiogyiiia. Sex .■ Syst .■ 



Deriv. From Bothrion, an ulcer, and Sperma, seed ; alluding 

 %o the appearance of that part of the plant. 



Gen. Ghab. Calyx somewhat 5-parted, lobes ovate-lanceolate, 

 acate : corolla cnp-shaped, tube not exceeding the calyx, throat 

 very olftusely emarginate with five scales, lobes of the limb some- 

 what rounded : anthecs included under the middle of the tube : 

 nectary small, annular, or a disk prominent around the ovary : 

 ovary 4-partite : style very short : stigma capitellate : nuts four, 

 or by abortion two, distinct, longer than the persistent style, 

 kidney-shaped : seed obovoid : radicle superior. — ^Annual or bi- 

 ennial herbs, strigose or hispid : flowers short pedicelled, arrang- 

 ed in a leafy raceme, extra-axillary, white or blue. 



(1) B. TENELtUM. (Fisch.) 



Idenf. Dec. prod. X. p. 116. 



Syn. Anchusa tenella, Roem. ^ Sehult. — Cynoglossnm diffu- 

 sum, Roxh. fl. Ind. Ed. Car. II. p. 7. — D. prostratum, Don. fi, 

 Nep. prod. p. 100. 



Spec Char. Stems much branched with adpressed strigae : 

 leaves oval-oblong, covered with adpressed hairs, lower ones petiol- 

 ed : fructiferous calyces longer than the pedicel, nodding : flowers 

 small, white, often slightly reddish at the throat. 



Bengal. Hindostan. 



(2) B. ? MARiFOLiuM. (Dec) 



Ident. Dec. prod. X. p. 116. 



Syn, Cynoglossum marifolium, Roxb, flor. Ind. Ed. Car. H] 

 y. 8. 



