Asperugo.] c. BORAGmEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 167 



solitary or paired. Calyx campanulate, 6-fid half-way down ; in fruit mucli 

 enlarged, rigid, compressed, lobes toothed nervose. Corolla-tube short, mouth 

 dosed with 5 scales ; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, 

 included; anthers ovate-oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style short, 

 .stigma small capitate. Nutlets 4, erect, ellipsoid-oblong, laterally compressed, 

 smooth, stony, attached at a small subpunctiform scar above their middle ; car- 

 pophore conoid. 



A. procumbens, Linn.; DC. Prodr. x. 146; Lamk. HI. t. 94; Engl. 

 Bot. t. 661 ; Sibth. Fl. Gr.\ 177 ; Seiehb. Fl. Germ. 1. 1827 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 275. 



Punjab and Kashmir, alt. 1-7000 ft. ; extending to 13,000 ft. in We.stbrn Tibet 

 .and the Kabakokum; a weed especially near cultivation, Thomson, &c. — Disteib. 

 Europe, N. Africa, W. Central and N. Asia. 



Spreading, 1-2 ft., branched. Leaves 1-2J in. Flowers i in. diam., purplish-blue 

 or white ; calyx-lobes in flower, ^ in., oblong. Nutlets ^-^ in. ; calyx in fruit J- in. 

 diam., reticulately-nerved ; lobes large, triangular. 



18. DXICROTTXiiV, Benth. 



An almost stemless, soabrous-pubeacent herb. Sadical leaves eUiptic-spathu- 

 late, rosulate. Cymes dense, many-fld., subsessile among the leaves, bracteate. 

 J'lowers small, sessile. Calyx campanulate ; lobes 5, ciliate. Corolla-tube short, 

 throat with 5 scales ; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, 

 included ; anthers ovate-oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style short, 

 stigma small capitate. Nutlets 4, or fewer, ovoid-oblong, dorsally compressed, 

 attached by a small scar above their middle. 



nx. Benthami, Clarke. 



"Western Tibet, alt. 15-17,000 ft.; Parang Pass, Thomson; Kyoongar Pass, 

 :Stra6hey S[ IVinterbottom. 



Boot long, vertical, crowned by a tuft of leaves longer than the inflorescence ; but 

 one example has a stem of 3 in., with inflorescence as in Eritrichmm. Leaoes 3 in. 

 Flowers i-^ in. diam. Nutlets ^ in., backs diamond-shaped, scabrous with subsessile 

 .glochidia. 



19. BOTKRXOSPEBDXVni, Bunye. 



"Weak herbs, annual or biennial, strigose or hirsute. Xeawes alternate, ovate 

 or lanceolate. Flowers small, blue or white, axillary, pedicelled, the upper 

 going oflF into a bracteate raceme. Calyx 5-paitite ; lobes narrow, not (or 

 scarcely) enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube short, throat with 5 scales ; lobes 5, 

 imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included ; anthers ovate, 

 obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style short, stigma capitate. Nutlets 4, 

 ellipsoid, without angles, granular-scabrid ; scar near the middle of the inner 

 face, large, hollow, smooth, with an inflexed margin ; carpophore oblong. — 

 .Species 2 or 3; from N. India to Amurland. 



B. tenellum, Fisch. ^ Mey. Ind. Sem. 1835, 24; adpressedly hispid, 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate lower petioled, pedicels axillary as long as the calyx, 

 scar of the nutlets elliptic longitudinal. JDC. Prod?: x. 116. B. asperugoides, 

 Sieb. ^ Zucc. Fam. Nat. Jap. ii. 26. Anchusa tenella, Soi-nem. ; Roem. ^ Sch. 

 Syst. iv. 100. A. zeylanica, Jacg. f. Fol. i. 47, t. 29. Cynoglossum diiFusiun, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 8f Wall. ii. 7 ; Wall. Cat. 925. 0. prostratum, Bon 

 JProdr. 100. 



