Lindelofia.] c. boeagine^. (0. B. Clarke.) 159' 



11. XiXNBEIiOFIA, Lehm. 



An erect, perennial, haiiy herb. Eadical leaves petiolate ; cauline alternate, 

 from ovate to linear-lanceolate. JRacemes dense, elongate, ebracteate. Flowers 

 blue, purple, or nearly black. Sepals in fruit somewhat enlarged, spreading. 

 CoroUa-tube cylindric, longer than the calyx, crowned with scales in the throat 

 forming a cone ; lobes obtuse, round, spreading, horizontally imbricated in bud. 

 Stamens 5 ; anthers large, linear— oblong, exserted, but scarcely overtopping the 

 scales. Ovary 4-lobed ; style from near the base of the lobes, long, stigma 

 small. Nutlets 4, depressed, rounded at the base, apices hardly produced, glo- 

 chidiate ; carpophore short. 



Zi. spectabllls, Lehm. in lAnneea, xxiv. 216 ; hairy, cauline leaves- 

 sessile oblong, coroUaftube 1-3 times as long as the calyx, faces of the nutlets 

 glochidiate on the margin chiefly. Cynoglossum longiflorum, Benth. in Soyle 

 III. 805; Bot. Reg. 26, t. 60. C grandiflorum, Benth. in Boyle III. 305;. 

 DC Prodr.x. 156. Omphalodies longiflora, A. DC. Pfodr. x. 158. Anchusopsis 

 longiflora, Biseh. in lAnneea, xxxvi. 736. 



AiPiNE Wbsteen HiMALiYA ; alt. 10-12,000 ft., from Gurwhal to Kashmir, Boyle,. 

 Madden, Falconer, &c. 



Stein 1-2 ft., patently, sometimes densely hairy. Badical leaves long-petioled, 

 2-4 in., lanceolate; lower cauline petioled, upper subcordate, amplexioaiil, 3 in., 

 hirsute more or less on both surfaces. Bacmies dense, even in fruit, or elongate lax. 

 Calyx-lobes in flower | in., subacute, in the type example, sometimes obtuse, variable 

 in length, sparingly pilose or woolly. Corolla intense blue, tube i in., lobes | in. in 

 the type example, excessively variable in size. Outer faces of the nutlets |— | in.,, 

 ovate, marginal glochidia connate at the base, the obscure medial line sparingly 

 glochidiate, the rest of the surface nearly smooth ; in a word, as of Cynoglossmn ; 

 carpophore sublinear. — Hardly any two examples agree in the size and shape of the 

 coroUa and calyx or in their relative sizes. 



Vak. Falconeri ; stems strict, leaves linear-lanceolate, calyx-lobes l in. narrowly 

 oblong, corolla-tube J-f in.— Kashmir, Falconer. 



Vae. Levingii ; leaves elliptic and ovate acute, calyx-lobes j-|- in. ovate, corolla- 

 tube f by |- in., segments J in. diam. orbicular, style | in. — Kashmir ; Pir Pingul, alt. 

 11,500 ft., Levinge. This has much larger flowers than any other example. 



2. Ii. Bentbami, Hoohf. ; hairy, leaves linear-lanceolate acute, raceme* 

 panicled, coroUa-tube about equalling the calyx narrow, segments elliptic or 

 oblong suberect. Solenanthus sp. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. Sr T. 



Kashmir and "Westebk Tibet; alt, 11-16,000 ft., Thomson, Strachey ^ Winter- 

 hottom, &c. 



SteTns 2-3 ft., erect. Badical leaves long-petioled, narrow-lanceolate, cauline- 

 sessile 4 by \-\ in. Fanioles repeatedly branched, laxly racemose ; pedicels J-J in. 

 and upwards. Calyx-lobes at flower-time nearly § by ^ in., narrowly lanceolate, acute. 

 Corolla-tiibe |-| by ^ in., cylindric ; lobes ^ by ^ in., erect or only half-patent. 

 Filaments as long as the scales; anthers exserted (not from the corolla). Style 

 ^-| in. Nutlets J-| in., forming a pyramid, densely shortly glochidiate, especially 

 roimd the margins; carpophore elongate conic. — This may prove tobeS. angustifolius, 

 Fisch. ^ Mey. ; DC. Frodr. x. 165; it was placed in lAndelofia by Bentham, (to which 

 genus I would refer the Sohnanthi with long anthers, as S. lanatus, A. Dc, 

 8. brachtystemon, F. & M.—J. B. Hooker). 



12. SOX.ENANTKUS, Ledeb. 



Perennial, hairy herbs. Leaves alternate, radical petioled. Bacemes dense 

 or corymbose, ebracteate. Calyx 5-partite, scarcely enlarged in fruit. Corolla 



