Lithospermvm.] c, BOEAGiNBii. (C. B. Clarke.) 175 



ICashmie ; Peshawur, Vicary. Westebn Tibet, Thomson. — Disteib. IVom Cabul, 

 Siberia to N. Africa, Europe. 



Annual. Stems 12-24 in., erect. Cauline leaves 1 by J in., strigose, hairs often 

 from tuberculate bases. Eaoemes'in fruit 4-10 in., pedicels ^ in. ; bracts leaflike, 

 smaller upwards. Corolla J in. long, hairy upwards. Nutlets ^ in., gradually nar- 

 rowed upwards ; sepals in fruit j— J in., hispid. 



2. Ii, tenuiflorum, lAnn. f. Suppl. 130 ; strigose, leaves oblong-linear 

 lower spathulate scarcely petioled, corolla blue rarely wliite tube slightly ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, nutlets ovoid somewhat suddenly acuminate tuberculate, 

 Jacq. 2c. Ear. ii. t. 313; DC. Prodr. x. 75; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 217. Myo- 

 sotis tenuiflora, Viv. Fl. Lib. 9, t. 1,^^. 2. 



Kashmie, alt. 5-7000 ft., TJwmson. Punjab, Eawul Pindee, AitcMson. — Disteib.- 

 Cabul, W. Asia to Egypt and Greece. 



Very near the preceding species. SteTus often divided near the base, decumbent, 

 rarely more than 12 in. 



3. Xi. officinale, lAnn. ; DC. Prodr. x. 76; hispidly hairy, leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, corolla white fading yellowish, nutlets ovoid shining white smooth. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 134; Bmss. Fl. Orient. W. 218. Margarospermum officinale, 

 Dome, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 122. 



Kashmie ; alt. 5-8000 ft., freq^uent ; Falconer, Thomson, &c. 



Perennial. Stems 2-4 feet, erect, corymbose upwards. Leaves 2 by ^ in., rough 

 strigose, nerves subprominent. Racemes in fruit 1-4 in. ; pedicels \ in. ; bract» 

 leaflike, smaller upwards. Corolla ^ in., hairy upwards. Nutlets \ in. ; sepals in 

 fruit \ in. 



29. SEXlXCOSTOniA, Stocks. 



Small strigose branched shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flmoers small, axillary, 

 sessile, solitary, or the upper in a bracteate raceme. Sepals 5, narrow. CoroUa- 

 tube short ; mouth wide, closed with hair ; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, 

 spreading. Stamens 5, subincluded ; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4r- 

 lobed; style short, stigma subcapitate. Nutlets 4, ovoid, substipitate ; scar 

 basal ; receptacle flat. — Species 3 in W. Asia, from India to Arabia. 



1. S. ■p^vLeiO.orvoBa., Stocks in Wight le. t. 1877; roughly strigose, leaves 

 oblong aubsessUe, corolla white, nuts ovoid acute stony blotched with very flat 

 white tubercles. Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 172 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 804. 



W. India ; Deesa. Kattywae (in the sands near the sea). Scinde ; Stocks, Sac. 



Attaining 12-18 in., oftener small, scrubby. Leaves 1^ by j-^ in., obtuse with a 

 minute mucro, narrowed at the base, hispid with tubercle-based hairs ; in scrubby 

 plants j-^ in. long. Sepals ^ in., lanceolate, hispid. Corolla f in. diam., lobes crisp 

 subserrulate on the margin ; tube within and base of the lobes densely hairy. Nut- 

 lets jg in., acute. 



30. ARNEBXA, Forsh 



Annual or perennial hispid herbs, diffuse or divided near the base ; root 

 often staining red. Leaves alternate. Racemes terminal, elongate, bracteate ; 

 flowers subsessile, yeUow or whiteish (in the Indian species). Sepals linear, 

 not or slightly enlarged in fruit (in the Indian species). Corollortube slender, 

 longer than the sepals, throat naked within ; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, 

 spreading. Stamems 5 ; much below the moutb of the tube with long style, or 

 in the throat semi-exsert with short style ; anthers small, oblong obtuse. Ovary 

 deeply 4-lobed ; style shortly bipartite, stigmas small capitate, nearly the same 

 in the long- and short-styled flowers. Nutlets 4, ovoid-oblong or acute, erect ; 



