172 c. BOEAGiNBai. (C. B. Clarke.) [TrigonoUs, 



not or slightly enlarged. Corolla small, blue or white ; tube shorter than the 

 calyx, throat with 6 small scales ; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. 

 Stamens 5, included; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style 

 filiform, not elongate, stigma capitate. Nutlets 4, tetrahedral with 4 acute or 

 submarginate edges, hardly longer than broad, shining black ; scar small, basal,, 

 snbstipitate. — Species 10 ; Central and E. Asia. 



• Nutlets gldlyrous (three very closely aUied species). 



1. T. microcarpa, Benth. in . Gen. PL ii. 858 ; leaves petioled ovate 

 acute minutely strigose on both surfaces, racemes terminal, solitary axillary 

 pedicels added, fruiting sepals oblong acuminate. Myosotis microcarpa. Wall. 

 Cat. 928. Eritrichium microcarpum, DC. Prodr. x. 123. 



AxpiNE Nepax and SiKXiM, alt. 10,000 ft. ; Wallich, J. D. H. 



Stems 6-20 in., procumbent, divided. CauUne leaves 1 by 4 in., mucronate, obtuse 

 or rounded at the base, petiole j in. ; radical leaves rather larger petioled, IJ in.. 

 Sacemes in fruit 3-6 in,, ebraeteate, i.e. lower scattered pedicels in the axils of fully- 

 developed leaves ; pedicels f in. Calyx-lohes j^ in., in fruit ^^ in. Flowers | in. 

 diam. Nutlets ^ in. diam. 



2. T. rotundifolia, Benth. in Oen. PI. ii. 858 ; cauline leaves sessile or 

 petioled elliptic narrowed at both ends minutely strigose, racemes terminal, 

 calyx-lobes elliptic acute. Myosotis rotundifolia, Wdl. Cat. 930. Eritrichium 

 rotundifolium, I)C. Prodr. x. 128. 



SuBALPiNE Himalaya, alt. 6-10,000 ft.; Royle; Kumaon, Wallich; Sikkim 

 (Lachen), J. D. H. 



Stems weak, 2-4 in. Cauline leaves J-f in. ; radical long-petioled, some orbicu- 

 cular but many spathulate. — Does not differ from T. microcarpa except in being 

 smaller, with subsessile leaves more attenuate at the base. Wallich's example is not 

 in good fruit. 



3. T. multicaulis, Benth. in Gen, PI. ii. 858 ; cauline leaves sessile or 

 petioled elliptic nan-owed at both ends minutely strigose, racemes terminal, 

 calyx-lobes in fruit ovate acute. Myosotis multicaulis. Wall. Cat. 7020. Eri- 

 trichium miilticavile, DC. Prodr. x. 123. 



Central and Easteen Hebalata ; Nepal ; Wallich. Sikkim, alt. 10-12,000 ft. ; 

 Latong, J. D. H. 



Stems 1 in. Leaves J by ^ in., upper sessile. Pedicels A in. — Described from 

 Wallich's examples, which resemble his T. rotundifolia, but are larger. The Sikkim 

 ones are much smaller, with fruiting pedicels hardly exceeding J in. and the nutlets 

 brown yellow. 



** Nutlets minutely patently hairy on aU sides, 



4. T. ovalifolia, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 858; leaves petioled ovate 

 minutely strigose on both surfaces, racemes terminal with solitary axillary pedicels 

 added, fruiting sepals elliptic acuminate. Myosotis ovalifolia, Wall, in Roxh, 

 Fl. Ind. ed, Carey 8^ WaU. ii. 9, and Cat. 927. Eritjjichium ovalifolium, DC. 

 Prodr. X. 123. 



Centeai, and Eastern Himaiaya; Nepal and Sikkim, alt. 8-12,000 ft., frequent; 

 Wallich. J. D. H., &c. 



Stems 8-24 in., mostly prostrate. CauUne leaves J-lj in., from elliptic to orbicu- 

 lar, obtuse, base often cordate, petiole -|-^ in. Pedicels sometimes all axillary j-f 

 in. ; terminal racemes generally added. Gaiyx-lohes in fruit ^-^ in. Flowers \ in. 

 diam. and upwards. Nutlets ^-^ in. diam. — Had there been as few specimens of 

 this as of the three preceding species, the axillary-flowered examples would indubit- 

 ably have been reckoned distinct from Wallich's terminal-racemed ones. 



