160 c. BOEAGiNBJ). (0. B. Clarke.) \_8olen(mt}ms. 



tuTjular, throat with 5 scales ; lohes 5, small, obtuse, erect or scarcely spreading. 

 Filaments long ; anthers small, shortly oblong, far eiserted. Ooary 4-lobed ; 

 style from the base of the lobes, filiform, stigma small. Nutlets 4, attached 

 somewhat obliquely to the conical carpophore, scarcely produced at the apex, 

 rounded at the base, muricate or shortly glochidiate, usually margined. — Species 

 10, in S. Europe, Central and W. Asia. 



1. S. circinnatus, Iiedeb. Fl. Alt. i. 194, and Ic. Fl. Ross. t. 26; radical 

 leaves long-petioled cordate submembranous cauline subamplexicaul oblong- 

 lanceolate, racemes forming a terminal panicle DC. Prodr. x. 164 ; Bmss. Fl. 

 Orient. iY. 270. 



AxpiNE Westebn Himalaya ; Zanskar, Thomson ; Pangee, Sr: Watt. — Disteib. 

 .Affghanistan, Astrabad, Soongaria, Altai. 



Stems 3 ft., erect, laxly hairy. Radical leaves 6 by 2f in. ; petiole 8 in. ; cauline 

 3 by IJ in. Panicle in fruit 10 by 8 in., branches elongate ; flowers approximate ; 

 ■pedicels 0-} in. Calyx-lohes | by ^ in., oblong. Corolla-tube \ in,, lobes ^ in. 

 Filaments y in. Stt/te J-i in. Nutlets forming a pyramid J-|- in. diam., densely 

 ^shortly glochidiate, especially round the margins ; carpophore elongate-eonie. 



13. FAXlA,CAaVTrnX, £oiss. 



Perennial or biennial, hairy herbs. Leaves alternate. Racemes elongate, 



' bracts few or 0. Flowers small, blue. Calyx deeply 5-fid, in fruit not much 



. enlarged. Corolla funnel-'shaped, or cylindric in P. hdiocarpum, tube closed by 



. 6 scales ; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, beneath the 



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



small. Nutlets 4, depressed, often broadly adnate to the carpophore with rigid 



persistent style, forming a pyramid, their apices hardly produced, their bases 



rounded, attached obliquely to the elongate conical carpophore, glochidiate 



(except in P. ? Lamhertianum), strongly margined ; margin sometimes much 



reflexed as in Omphalodes. — Species 20, in S. Europe, W. and Central Asia. 



Sect. I. Stem solitary, tall, corymbose upwards. Leaves large. — (This sec- 

 tion differs from Cynoglosmm microgloehin, petiolatum, &e., only in the more 

 elongate conic carpophore, the nutlets being obliquely suberect, rather than much 

 depressed and subdivaricate as in Cynoglosswm.) 



1. P. cselestinum, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 850 ; radical leaves ovate- 

 . cordate submembranous cauline ovate base cuueate strigose on the nerves 



beneath, racemes divaricate furcate, pedicels very short. Cynoglossum cseles- 

 tinum, Idndl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 36 ; BC. Prodr. z. 151 ; JDah. <§• Qibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 173. Echinospermum cselestinum, Wight Ic. t. 1394. 



Western Deccan Peninsula ; from Mahableshwur to Mysore, common, Wight, 

 Daleell, &c. 



Erect, 3-4 ft., sparsely hairy. Radical leaves long-petioled, 7 by 5 in. ; cauline 31 



'by 2 in., acute, subentire, tubercular-scabrous above, nearly glabrous beneath except 



■ on the nerves. Racemes strigose ; branches 2-4 in. ; pedicels \ in., approximate. 



Calyx-lobes ^ in., elliptic ; in fruit | in., ovate. Flowers l in. diam., nearly as of 



Cynoglossum. Style scarcely ^ in. Outer faces of the nutlets | in., ovate, margin 



-prominent reflexed strongly glochidiate, disc nearly smooth shining. 



2. P. malabaricum, Clarke ; radical leaves, ovate-cordate tuberculate- 

 lispid, cauline ovate cuneate at the base hirsute, racemes numerous erect 



