164 0. BOBAGINEJ). (C. B. Clarke.) [Eriirichmm. 



scales ; lobes 6, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 6, included ; 

 anthers ovate, obtuse. Ovary 4-lobed ; style between the lobes, short, stigma 

 small capitate. Nutlets 4, erect, much longer than the carpophore, sear small 

 below their middle, nearly basal in S. bas^xum, tips free ; margins winged by 

 glochidia confluent at the base or rugose or entire. — Species 70 ; Europe, Temp. 

 Asia, America ; in Australia. 



* Olochidia on the murgin of the nutlets confluent at their bases. 



1. E. strictum, Dene, in Jaequem. Voy. Bat. 126; perennial, silky- 

 white, leaves linear, bracts minute in the upper part of the raceme, sepals in 

 fruit YS-jz ™- oblong. A. DC. Prodr. x. 128. E. Jacquemontii and longi- 

 folium, Dene. I. c. 122, 123, tt. 127, 129 ; DC. I. c. 25. Echinospermum canum, 

 Bemth. in Royle El. 306 ; A. DC. I. c. 14] . ? E. myosotiflorum, A. DC. Prodr. 

 X. 141. 



Throughout the Westeen Himalaya, alt. 7-13,000 ft. ; common, from Kashmir 

 and Baltisthan to the Sutledge. 



Bootstock woody ; stems 8 in., numerous, strict, undivided. Leaves 1^ by ^ in., 

 softly adpressedly silky ; lowest similar but larger, attenuate, hardly petioled ; radical 

 withered. Racemes 1-3 iu., branched; pedicels ^— ^ in., erect in fruit. Flowers \ in. 

 diam., blue. Nutlets forming a pyramid ^^— j„ in. high, produced more than half their 

 length above the punctiform scar; margins subieflexed, thin, the weak glochidia 

 produced shortly above their confluence, scabrous, apices of most divided, uncinate ; 

 backs scabrous, or muricated with minute prickles. — Decaisne's example here described 

 has narrower leaves than the mass of the material which is half-way between this 

 and var. Thomsoni. This is the type of the genus Echinospermum as described in the 

 G-en. PI., and may be E. myosotiflorum, A. DC. Prodr. x. 141. 



Var. Thomsoni; glistening silky, stems 12-18 in., cauline leaves f by J in. 

 oblong radical much larger long-petioled, racemes larger with rather larger calyces 

 and fruits, nutlets often pilose. — N. Kashmir, alt. 8000 ft., Thomson, &c. A most 

 beautiful plant, perhaps specifically distinct. 



Vae. jruticulosum ; weaker, greener, stems diffuse sometimes with divaricate 

 branches. E. fruticulosum", Klotzsch in, Seis. Pr. Wold. Bot. 96, t. 62. E. patens, 

 DcTie. in Jacguem. Voy. Bot. 125; DC. Prodr. x. 128.— W. Himalaya, alt. 8-11,000 

 ft.; Pangee, Lahoulj Changas ; Thomson, &c. 



2. E. spathulatum, Clarke ; perennial, villous, leaves oblong, bracts 

 minute in the upper part of the raceme, calyx-lobes in fruit ^-| in. oblong. 

 Echinospermum spathulatum, Benth. in Royle HI. 306 ; DC. I^odr. x. 142. 



"Western Tibet; Hangarang Pass, Thomson ; Kijungar Pass, alt. 16,000 ft., 

 Strachey and Winterbottom. 



Bootstock woody. SUms 2-6 'in., numerous, decumbent. Cauline leaves | by j in., 

 sessile ; lower numerous, larger, spathulate, petioled. Nutlets not ripe, larger than in 

 E. strictum, var. Thomsoni, hairy on the back. — Perhaps a form of E. strictum, but 

 wants the glistening silky indumentum of that species ; calyx and nutlets larger. 



** Margins of the nutlets entire or crenulate not glochidiate. 



8. E. pustulosum, Clarke; weak, diffuse, strigose, leaves spathulate- 

 oblong, pedicels few subaxillary, nutlets ovoid tubercular and minutely pubes-- 

 cent. — Eritrichium sp. n. 14, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. 8f T. 



Alpine Sikkim; Laehen, alt. 13-15,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Bootstock biennial (at least), weak ; stems 3-7 in. Leaves | by f in., cauline 

 mostly spathulate, petioled, a few uppermost sessile. Pedicels j-J m. in fruit. Calyx- 

 lobes in fruit ^ in., elliptic-oblong. Flowers J in. diam., pale blue. Nutlets jV-is in., 

 not distinctly margined ; tubercles appearing as tufts of minute hairs. 



