^ritrichmm.] c. boeaqine^. (0. B. Clarke.) 165 



4. E. py^maeum, Clarke ; nearly stemless leaves elliptic, pedicels i in, 

 appearing umbelled, nutlets ovoid nearly smooth. — Eritrichium sp. n. 16, Herb, 

 Ind. Or. JET./. ^ T. 



Alpine Sikkim; Momay, alt. 16,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stems 0—1 in., annual, erect, densely clothed with spreading leaves, terminated by 

 numerous subfascided spreading pedicels. Leaves \ in,, sessile, subobtuse, patently 

 villous. Calyx-lobes -jj in., narrowly oblong. Corolla not seen. Nutlets Jg in., with 

 free apices, testa minutely reticulate and wrinkled ; carpophore very short. 



5. E. munroi, Clarke ; small, suhereet, branched, leaves oblong lower 

 spathulate, racemes numerous many-flowered, nutlets ovoid-oblong nearly 

 smooth. — Eritrichium sp. u. 13, Serb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sr T. 



Alpine Himalaya, alt. 11-13,000 ft.; Kunawur, Muti/to, Kumaon, Straoh. ^ 

 Wititerb. ; Sikkim, Lachen, J. D. H. 



Stems 1-4 in. Leaves y-^ in., patently villous. Racemes villous, dense in flower; 

 in fruit pedicels sometimes J in., upper ebracteate. Calyx-hbes in flower minute, in 

 fruit ^ in. or upwards, oblong-linear. Flowers hardly ^ in. diam. Nutlets ^ in., 

 minutely reticulate and wrinkled ; carpophore very short. — The fruit is imperfect, 

 and there may be more than one species mixed here. 



6. E. tibeticum, Clarke ; lax, weak, difliise, leaves elliptic mostly 

 petioled, racemes elongate ebracteate, nutlets ovoid shining glabrous margins 

 entire. — Eritrichium sp. n. 17, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sr T. 



Westeen Tibet ; Ladakh, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Thomson. 



Eootstock slender, annual ? Stems 6-10 in., numerous, slender. Leaves f by ^ 

 in., obtuse, spathulate, strigose. Bacemes in fruit 6 in. ; pedicels -^ in., a few lower 

 from leaflike bracts. Calyx-lobes jL in., ovate-oblong. Flowers | m. diam. Nutlets 

 ■^ in. ; margin somewhat prominent. 



Vae. minor ; less strigose, stems 2-3 in., leaves ^-J in. Eritrichium sp. n. 15, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. B.f. # T.— Sikkim ; PhuUoong, alt. 15,000 ft., J. D. H. 



*** Nutlets conie-obovoid, ntargin strong fringed with divided hairs. 



7. E. basifixum, Clarke ; erect, leaves sessUe broadly lanceolate softly 

 villous, racemes dense bracteate, nutlets apparently basally attached, carpophore 

 depressed hardly convex. Echinospermum sericeum, Benth. in Soyle III. 306 ; 

 DC. Prodr. x. 142. 



Alpine Western Himalaya ; from Kashmirto Gurwhal, alt. 13-15,000 ft. ; Soyle, 

 Lance, Jaesohke, &c. 



Stems 3-7 in., solitary or few, erect, divided at the apex. Leaves | by i in., acute, 

 lower densely tufted, upper distant. Bacemes in fruit l|in. ; pedicels 0-^ in. ; bracts 

 ^ in. Calyx-lobes in fruit -j in., narrowly oblong. Flowers j in. diam. and upwards, 

 blue, purpureseent. Nutlets ^ in., membranous, glabrous ; circular back wifiin the 

 margin minutely hairy. — Closely alUed to E. villosum, in which the margins of the 

 nutlets carry broad-based flattened lanceolate ciliate-serrate teeth. In the typical 

 Eritrichiimis the scar of the nutlets is sub-pimetiform at the apex of a depressed cone 

 on the inner lower face ; in E. villosum, DC. Prodr. x. 126 (Myosotis villosa, Ledeb. 

 le. Fl. Boss. t. 216), this cone is less depressed ; in E. basifixum it is elongate still 

 more, so that the nutlets are attached apparently basally, nearly as in Lithospermea, 



16. ROCBEX.IA, Reichh. 



Annual or perennial, yiUous or hispid herbs. Leaves alternate. Racemes 

 simple or branched, bracteate. Flowers small, blue or white. Sepals 5 (in non- 

 Indian species 6-7), enlarged in fruit, linear or base auricled and sagittate. 

 Cm-oUa-tube cylindric, throat with or without scales ; lobes small, spreading. 



