{)m^halodes.'i c. BOEAGipB^. (0. B. Clarke.) 155 



A. tlbetioa ; Senth. in Gen. PI. ii. 846. 



Western Tibet; Nubra, alt. 13,000 ft. ; near Karsar village, Thomson. 



Stems 4-14 in., prostrate, branched. Leaves I iby J in., subobtuse. Pedicels J- 

 1^ in. Sejpah^ in., narrowly oblong. Corolla-tuhe scarcely longer than the sepals ; 

 lobes ^ in. Nutlets ^ in. 



9. 0»IPHAX.ODES, MoencTi. 



Weak, decumbent herbs, strigose or subglabrous. Radical leaves long- 

 ■petioled, lanceolate or ovate ; catiline few, alternate. Pedicels in lax racemes, 

 .slender, lower sutiaxillary solitary from leaf-like bracts. Flowers white or blue. 

 Sepals 5, spreading, little enlarged in fruit. Corolla rotate, throat almost 

 closed by obtuse scales; lobes 6, round, spreading, imbricate in the bud. 

 Stamens 6, included; anthers small, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style 

 filiform, from the base of the lobes, stigma small or subcapitate. Nutlets 4, 

 •depressed, forming a pyramid, attached to the small carpophore by their inner 

 faces, their margins broad thin, entire or serrate, reflexed over the back of the 

 nuts so as to form on each a smaJl nearly closed cell opening outwards by a 

 small hole; nuts smooth on the back. — Species 10; from the Mediterranean 

 basin to Central Asia and Japan, 



0. Tbomsonl, Clarice; leaves elliptic or oblong subobtuse strigose on 

 iboth sui'faces, racemes lax subterminal, revolute margins of the nutlets nearly 

 ■ entire. Omphalodes, sp. 8, Serh. Ind. Or. H.f. 8f T. 



Western Tibet : Nubra, alt. 13,000 ft., Thomson. 



Eootstock perennial ; annual branches 6-10 in., very numeroue, slender, strigose. 

 Radical leaves 1 by f in., spathulate ; petiole \-l\ in. ; eaiiline f by ^ in., sessile. 

 Pedicels 5-I in., recurved in fruit. Sepals ^ in., oblong, reflexed in fruit. Fruit \ 

 in. long and broad, exactly pyramidal ; nutlets somewhat saccate at base, appearing 

 inflated by the reflexed loose membranous margin. 



10. CYITOCIiOSSUDX, Xmn. 



Biennial or perennial herbs, erect, hairy. Leaves alternate, radical petioled. 

 Jlaeemes elongate, ebracteate ; flowers ultimately distant, sessile or lower 

 shortly pedicelled, blueish or purple. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, in fruit spreading 

 jnot (or slightly) enlarged. Corollor-tube short, with 5 obtuse or emarginate 

 scales in the throat ; lobes 5, obtuse, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 6, included 

 teneath the scales ; anthers small, ovate, their tips hardly above the mouth of 

 the corolla-tube. Ovary-lobes 4 ; style short or longish from the base of the 

 lobes, stigma small. Nutlets 4, forming a much depressed pyramid, apices 

 hardly produced above the hilum, bases rounded pi^oduced downwards, outer 

 faces convex or flattened, with or without a margin, glochidiate ; carpophore 

 (after the nuts have fallen) linear, shortly conic at the base (elongate-conic in 

 C. Ritchiei and sometimes in C. denticulatum, var. zeylanica. — Species 60 ; in 

 subtropical and temperate, especially mountain regions. 



* Flowers very small ; style neither injlower nor in fruit exceeding ^ in. 



1. C. furcatum, WaU. in Poxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 8f Wall. ii. 6, and 

 Cat. 919 ; depressed-strigose, upper cauline leaves oblong sessile entire softly 

 hairy, racemes furcate branches long fulvous towards the tips, lower flowers 

 ■distinctly pedicelled, outer faces of the nutlets ovate distinctly margined by the 

 ■confluence of the bases of the marginal glochidia. Don Prodr. 100 ; DC. 

 Prodr. X. 149 ; Maxi7n. in Bull. Acad. Petersb. xvii. 5.54. 0. ovatum, Moon 

 Cat. 12. 



