170 c. BORAGiNEiE. (G. B. Clarke.) IMertensia. 



ovoid-oblong, obscurely dorsally compressed, smooth, slightly angular; scar 

 -Small, triangular, at the very base of the inner angle, not strongly margined. — 

 Species 15 ; in E. Europe, extratropical Asia, and N. America. 



Trigonitis differs by its short corolla-tube and shortly trigonous (not oblong) 

 nutlets. .Myosotis differs by its short corolla-tube and twisted corolla-lobes. The 

 length of the corolla is variable in the species of this genus. 



1. BI. elongrata, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 857 ; adpressedly hairy, leaves 

 .oblong lower long-petioled spathulate, raceme many-flowered at length elongate, 

 corolla-tube a little longer than the calyx, scales in the throat very smaU. 

 Lithospermum elongatum, Dene, in Jaequem. Voy. Hot. 121, t. 126. Eritri- 

 chium elongatum, A. DC. Prodr. x. 124. 



Kashmir, alt. 5-8000 ft. ; Jacgueimnt, Falconer. 



Bootstook somewhat stout, annual stems 8 in. Radical leaves 2 by J in. ; petiole 

 IJ in.; cauline 2 by ^ in., sessile, acute, hairs adpressed from tubercular bases. 

 RaceTue in fruit 3J in., long-peduncled ; pedicels J in., rigid, suberect. Calyx-hbes 

 ^ in., linear, sparingly strigose; in fruit i in. Corolla ^ in. diam., tube | in. long; 

 scales in the throat very small ; lobes spreading. Anthers subsessile, above the 

 scales. Style | in. Nutlets i in., -white or pale, shining. — Described from Jacque- 

 mont's specimen. 



2. m. moltkioides, Clai-ke; patently hairy, leaves oblong or elliptic 

 lower long-petioled spathulate, racemes many-flowered, corolla-tube nearly 

 twice as long as the calyx, scales in the throat small. Anchusa moltkioides, 

 Benth. in Boyle III. 305, t. 73, fig. 1; DC. Prodr. x. 51. Lithospermum 

 moltkioides, Dene, in Jaequem. Voy. Bot. 122. 



Kashmir, alt. 8000 ft.. Falconer; near Islamabad, Thomson. Pangeb; Dr. Watt. 



Very near M. elongata ; leaves more softly hairy, hairs on the midrib beneath 

 patent or reflexed. Racemes shorter peduncled. Calyx larger. Corolla-tube ^ by 

 iV in. Nutlets brown-black, not more excavate at the base than are those of M, 

 elongata. 



Vae. T/iomsoni ; radical leaves large elliptic acute, corolla exceeding i in. diam. 

 with tube ^ in. long. Mertensia sp. n. 3, Serb. Ind. Or. H. f. Sf T. — Kashmir, alt. 

 11,000 ft. ; near Islamabad, Thomson. Kadical leaves 3 by IJ in., base subobtuse. 

 Pedicels in fruit j-J in. Sepals in fruit ^ in. and upwards, narrowly oblong, patently 

 hairy. Nutlets exceeding J in. brown-black. 



3. I)K. echioides, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 857 ; softly hairy, leaves oblong 

 lower long-petioled spathulate, raceme dense many-fld., corolla-tube one-third 

 longer than the calyx-lobes erect scales in the throat obsolete, anthers exsert 

 from the tube. Lithospermum echioides, Benth. in Boyle III. 305 ; DC. Prodr. 

 X. 83. L. secundiflorum, Dene, in Jaequem. Voy. Bot. 120, t. 125. Eritrichium 

 secundiflorum, A. DC. Prodr. x. 124. 



Kashmir and "Westeen Tibet, alt. 6-12,000 ft. ; from the Upper Indus to the 

 southern face of the Himalaya, frequent ; Royle, Falconer, &c. 



Stems 6-15 in. Leaves 1 J by J in., subobtuse. Peduncles long ; racemes 1-3 in., 

 dense even in fruit; pedicels ^-J in., linear. Corolla-tube 1-J in., lobes ^ in. 

 Filaments linear, distinct ; anthers completely exsert, but Uot reaching alaove its lobes. 

 Style and nutlets as of M. elongata, — Easily distinguished from all the other species 

 of Mertensia by its erect corolla-lobes. 



4. Itl. prfmuloides, Clarke ; strigose, leaves small elliptic lower very 

 shortly petioled, raceme dense not many-flowered, coroUa-tube ^ in. twice as 

 long as the calyx, scales in the throat distinct. Eritrichium primuloides. Dene, 

 in Jaequem. Voy. Bot. 123, t. 128 ; A. DC. Prodr. x. 125. 



Alpine Western Himalaya, Jacquemont; Sai and Gilgit, alt. 15,000 ft,, Col. 

 Tanner. 



