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pilose on botli sides ; racemes axillary, very long and slender ; 

 flowers secund ; corolla tubular, segments spreading, acuminated ; 

 anthers 3-toothed at the apex ; flowers yellowish. Near Gogo ; 

 flowers in November. 



6. TIARIDIUM, Lehm. 



1. Indicum, Lehm. Asp. 14. — Stem erect, herbaceous, branch- 

 ed, hairy ; leaves opposite and alternate-petioled, cordate-ovate, or 

 oval, rugose ; spikes terminal, solitary, simple ; fruit bifid, glabrous, 

 mitre-shaped, segments devaricate. A common weed, generally 

 found on rubbish ; flowers lilac. Syn. Heliotropium indicum, 

 Linn. ; H anisophyllum, Beauv. ; T anisophyllum, Don. Gen. 

 syst. iv, \) 364. 



XCIX. BORAGINACE^. 

 1. SERIC0ST01V1A, Stocks. 



I . Pauoiflorum, Stock's Mss. — Shrubby, very much branclii^d, 

 suberect ; leaves hnear-lanceolate, 1 inch long, 2 lines broad ; /lowers 

 spiked, terminal, or on short branches opposite the leaves; flowers 

 fasciculate; calyx segments ovate-acute, strigose; corol white, small, 

 the throat thickly clothed with white hairs; seeds hard, tubercled, 

 shining. One of the commnnest jilants on the Coast of Kattywar. 

 Wight Tc. t. 1377. This does not seem to differ from Lithos- 

 perffum. 



2. CYNOGLOSSUM, Linn. 



1. MicuANTnuM, Desf. Cat. H. Par. 1804, p 220.— Stem 

 branched, hispid, with spreading hairs; younger branches and racemes 

 wi^h hoary adpressed pubescence; leaves lanceolate-acute, denti- 

 culate, rough, with hairs above, softly hairy beneath ; racemes 

 without bracts ; calyx lobes ovate-obtuse, nearly as long as the 

 corolla; flowers blue, with a white eye, appear towards the end of 

 the rains. Concan, Khandalla, &c. Syn. C canescens, Willi I. 

 linum i, p 180; C racemosum, lioxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 6. Nuts 

 scarcely one line in length, ovate-Aunded, sub-compressed, bristly 

 all over. 



-2. Glochidiatum, Wall List. 922. — Stem erect-branched, 

 hispid ; hairs of the stem anrl leaves spreading, tuberculate at 

 their base, branches rather angular ; leaves lanceolate-acuminate, 

 attenuated at the base ; racemes terminal, solitary or twin, without 

 bracts ; calyx lobes ovate oblong-obtuse, silky and strigose ; fruit 

 with a hairy ring surmounted by long teeth, which hiive 5 to 6 

 recurved hooks at their apex. Parr Ghaut; flowers in November. 



