l56 C. BOEAGiNB^. (C. B. Clarke.) {fiynnglossvm^ 



Throughout India and Cetlon ; in the' mountains, alt. 4^9000 ft., very eommon ; 

 no examples from the Malay PeninsiJa.^DisTEiB. Cabul. 



Erect, 1-3 ft., no patent or lax hairs on the stem. Eadioal leaves larger, long- 

 petioled, persistent at the time of flowering ; cauline 4 by 1 in., acute, frequentfy 

 subdecurrent, glabrous or very minutely but scarcely scabrous on the upper surface, 

 nerves beneath often prominent. Lower pedicels often -fg-^ in. Galyx-hbes ovate, in 

 fruit often ^ in. broadly oblong. Outer face of the nutlets ^ in., with no distinct 

 medial line, with scattered glochidia often not much shorter than the marginal - 

 carpophore linear, hardly conical at the base. — Generally distinguished correctly from 

 the other closely allied species of this subsection by its almost silky indumentum and 

 tawny young racemes. C. ovatum, Moon, is a form common in the Nilgherries with 

 shorter, ovate, thicker, more softly hairy leaves. 



Var. lanceolata ; leaves thinner margin obscurely crenulate upper surface sub- 

 seabrous with longer hairs rising from a more tuberculate base. G. lanceolata,. 

 Heyne; Wall. Cat. 921. C. Heynei, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. S54; DC. Prodr. x. 150. 

 — Nilgherries, Anamallays, and Mts. of Ceylon, frequent. — Stem with subpatent hairs ; 

 cauline leaves narrowed at the base, sometimes obscurely petioled, margin minutely 

 scabrous, in these respects approaching C. miaranthmn, but the fruit is altogether as- 

 of C. Jwrcatum. 



% C. micranthum, Desf. Cat. Hcn-t. Par. 1804, 22Q,Jide A. DC. Prodr. 



X. 149 ; patently hairy, upper cauline leaves lanceolate acute at both ends 

 crenulate, racemes divaricately forked lower flowers subsessile, calyx-lobes- 

 minute ovate obtuse, outer faces of the small nutlets shortly ovate not (or most 

 obscurely) margined gloohidiate on all sides. Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb. 

 xvii. 555. 0. canescens, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 180 ; Benth. in Boyle lU. 

 306 ; Wall. Cat. 918, partly. 0. vesiculosum, WaU. Cat. 920, partly. 



NoETHEEN India and the Himalaya, alt. 1-8000 ft., &om Kashmir to Bhotan and 

 Pegu, common. 



Stem 1-4 feet, erect, hirsute. Badical leaves none at the time of flowering; 

 upper cauline 3 by J in., uppermost often very narrow, margin ciliate sometimes- 

 subdenticulate, upper surface scabrous with hairs from tuberculate bases. Bacemes 

 rigid, often imbricate ; flowers very small, sessile in the typical form (lower pedi- 

 celled in Wallich's examples). Calyx-lobes ^ in. in fruit, obtuse from the first. 

 Corolla very small, white, the scales in the throat blue-black. Nutlets i in., ovoid, 

 in the typical form, sometimes rather larger ; carpophore cylindrie-linear ; style often 

 twice as long as the nutlets. 



3. C. lanceolatum, Forsk. Fl. JEg. 41, not of Heyne ; hispid, leaves- 

 broadly lanceolate strongly nerved beneath, racemes often long with all the 

 flowers pediceUed, nutlets ^ in. diam. shortly ovate not (or most obscui-ely) mar- 

 gined glochidiate on all sides. DC. Prodr. x. 155. 0. racemosum, Boxb. Hort. 

 Bmg. 13, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey Sf Wall. ii. 6. C. hirsutum, Jacq. Hiyrt. Schoenb. 

 iv. t. 489, not of Thunb. 0. micranthum, Dah. ^ Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 172. 



Bengal Plain, to the sea, common ; extending throughout the Gangetic Plain 

 to Lahore. Bombay ; La/ui. — Distkib. Arabia. 



Eaceme-branches in fruit often 6-10 in.; pedicels often | in.; calyx-lobes in 

 fruit J in., obtuse. — Eoxburgh's C. raceimsum has been united by all authorities with 

 C. micrawtlmm, Desf. ; the nutlets are larger, the habit coarser ; whether species or 

 variety, it is identical with C. lanceolatum, Forsk. 



4. C. grloctaidlatuin, Wall. Cat. 922 ; stem hispid with hairs springing- 

 from tubercles, cauline leaves lanceolate base attenuate or petioled ciliate or 

 denticulate, lower flowers of the elongate racemes shortly pedicelled, calyx- 

 lobes ovate obtuse sometimes oblong in fruit, outer faces of the nutlets ovate- 

 margined glochidiate on all sides. DC. Prodr. x. 160, as to description only.. 

 C. stellulatum, Wall. Cat. 921. C. micranthum, Var. H.f. ^ T. in Herb. 



