.] c. BOEAGiNEa;. (C. B. Clarke.) 149 



Sect. III. Monimantba, Framik. Stigma with 2 linear branches exaert 

 from the corolla. 



3. K. opliiog'lossuiu, Stocks ; Aitchison Cat, Punjab. 94 ; leaves lanceo- 

 late, spikes elongate many-flowered, coroUa-lohes round crenate. BmsB. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 145. H. stylosum, Franch. Sert. Somal. in Mission Bivoil. 45, t. 4, 

 not PhUippi. 



Scinde; Kurrachee, Stocks. — Distbib. Beloochistan, Somali-land. 

 , Woody, 6-15 in., branched from the base, scabroua-hairy. Leaves 1 by J in., tip 

 cuneate, base attenuated or subpetioled, subentire, nerves obscure on the upper 

 sxirfaoe. Spikes 2-6 in. ; flowers sessile, 1-2-ranked. Sepals J in., lanceolate. 

 Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the sepals, cyliudric, minutely scabrous Tnthout. 

 Anthers linear, occupying the upper half of the corolla-tube. Stj/le very short ; 

 stigma cbnico-linear, nearly as long as the corolla-tube. Nutlets i, i in., glabrous. 



Sect. IV. Piptoclaina. Calyx-lobes short, subvalvate. Fruit enclosed 

 by the calyx. 



4. K. supinum, Idnn. ; DC. Prodr. ix. 533 ; leaves petioled elliptic 

 or ovate subobtuse, spikes short woolly, nut solitary (sometimes 2j large rugose 

 margined. Sibtk. Fl. Ch-cec. t. 157 ; Wight le. t. 1387 ; Dalz. (^ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 171 ; Bunge in Bidl. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1869, 289 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 

 127. Piptoclaina supina, (?. Son Gen. Syst. iv. 364. Lithospermum heliotro- 

 poides, Forsh. Fl. Mg. Arab. 39. 



Punjab and Uppbb G-angetic Plain; Eoyle, Edgeworth, &c. — Disteib. W. Asia, 

 8. Europe, N. Central Africa. 



Annual, prostrate, 1 ft. diam., much branched, shortly softly villous. Leaves J-l^ 

 in., subentire ; nerves often impressed on the upper surface. Calyx ^ in., ovate, 

 woolly. CoroUa-tttbe J in., ovate ; lobes very small, round. Anthers ovate-oblong, 

 near the top of the tube. Stigma conical, hairy, nearly as long as the style, included. 

 Nutlets 6 hy ^ in., margins broad, smooth; often 2 in the Indian examples. 



Vak. malabarica ; nuts usually 4 smaller in horizontal section triangular without 

 margins. H. malabarica, Eetz Obs. iv. 24 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 454 ; Wall. Cat. 7014. 

 Piptoclaina malabarica, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 364. — W. Deccan Peninsula, from 

 Central India {Edgeworth) to TinneveUy {Wight), frequent. Cutch & Scinde, 

 Stocks, Stoliczka. — Bunge (1. c. 287) excludes from the section Piptoclaina aU the 

 species with 4 nutlets, and objects to regarding S. malahariewm as a var. of H. 

 svpirmm ; but there is every gradation between the two forms of fruit in the Indian 

 collections ; an example, marked as eoUeeted at Darjeeling in Herb. Griffith, has 2-3 

 or 3-4 nuts. 



Sect. Y. Euhellotroplum. Sepals narrow, not enclosing the fruit. 

 Corolla-lobes plicate or crenulate, neither patent cuspidate nor with closely- 

 incurved mucro. Style short ; stigma conic, entire or minutely 2-fid or (in S. 

 rariflorwm and myosotoides) capitate, included in the coroUa-tube. Nutlets not 

 spreading, forming an ovoid 4-pointed mitre-like fruit, with a small hole at the 

 apex, 



* Leaves obovate or elliptic, silky scarcely scabrous, subentire ; Jlowers sessile. 



6. K. Eicbxraldi, Stead; DC. Prodr. Lx. 586; leaves obovate lower 

 long-petioled softly closely hairy, spikes dense ebracteate, flowers 2-ranked, 

 calyx deciduous with the fruit, nutlets glabrous minutely verrucose. Bunge in 

 Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1869, 292 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 131. H. eUipticum, 

 Ledeb. ; Eichw. Itin. Casp.-Cauoas. 10, t. 4, not of Salt. H. strictum, Ledebi 

 Fl. Boss. iii. 100. H. macrocarpum, Ouss. PI. Inarime, 214, t. 7, fig. 2, and g, 



