Cynoglossuin.\ 
LXXXIV. BORAGINEiE. 
1049 
2. C. suaveolens (sweet-scented), li. Br. Prod. 495 ; Benth. PI. Austr. 
iv. 409. An erect stout coarsely-hirsute plant with a perennial stock, the steins 
slightly branched, 1 to 2ft. high. Radicle and lower leaves on long petioles, 
lanceolate or oblong, sometimes several inches long; stem-leaves few, on shorter 
petioles, the upper ones small, sessile, lanceolate. Racemes loose, more or less 
forked, with small leafy bracts below most of the pedicels. Pedicels longer than 
the calyx and sometimes lin. long, recurved after flowering. Flowers white, the 
throat-scales yellow, very fragrant. Calyx-segments very open, narrow, line 
long. Nuts ovoid, spreading, flat or slightly convex, densely glochidiate outside, 
obliquely attached by their inner smooth face to the broad very prominent almost 
hemispherical receptacle. Seed flat or slightly concave. Embryo concave. — 
DC. Prod. x. 156; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. ii. 368. 
Hab.: Mostly in southern localities. 
3. C. australe (Australian), B. Br. Prod. 495 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 409. 
An erect stout hispid perennial, usually taller than C. suaveolens, and the hairs 
of the lower part of the stem long and reflexed. Radical and lower leaves on 
long petioles, the upper ones nearly sessile, all lanceolate or the lower ones 
oblong, often several inches long. Flowers sweet-scented, light-blue or white, 
in long slender more or less forked racemes, without bracts, the pedicels rarely 
exceeding the calyx and mostly shorter. Calyx-segments shortly hispid, obtuse, 
about 1 line long. Nuts very spreading, depressed, obovate, either nearly flat or 
with a more or less raised and glochidiate margin, the whole surface also more or 
less glochidiate, attached to the convex or almost hemispherical receptacle by a 
small smooth portion at the inner end of their under surface. Seeds flat. — 
DC. Prod. x. 151 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. ii. 368. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy ; Herberton, J. F. Bailey ; mostly in southern localities 
The fruit of this species sometimes almost passes into that of the genus or section Omphalodes, 
although always glochidiate. — Benth. 
4. C. Srummondii (after James Drummond), Benth. FI. Auxtr. iv. 409. 
A tall erect hispid perennial like C. australe, and perhaps a variety. Hairs of 
the plant usifafiy longer and looser than in C. australe, the pedicels often 
rather longer and occasionally a few bracts developed at the base of the raceme, 
the foliage, inflorescence, and flowers otherwise the same. Leaves here and there 
with large teeth. Nuts depressed, spreading, almost orbicular, with a much- 
raised membranous shortly fringed border, the enclosed upper concave surface 
quite smooth, or rarely with a slightly raised midrib bearing a few hooked 
prickles, the under surface convex and quite smooth, the attachment as in C. 
australe. 
Hab.: Near the border of N.S.W. 
9. ECHINOSPERMUM, Swartz. 
(Seeds prickly, like a hedgehog.) 
Oalyx deeply divided into 5 segments. Corolla with a cylindrical tube, the 
throat with 5 small scales inside ; lobes 5, spreading. Stamens inserted in the 
tube ; anthers included. Ovary 4-lobed ; style inserted between the lobes, with 
a small usually capitate stigma. Nuts 4, usually more or less muricate with 
hooked prickles, erect, laterally attached to a narrow-conical receptacle. Seeds 
without albumen, radicle short. — Herbs with the habit foliage and flowers of 
Myosotis, but the flowers usually interspersed with bracts. 
A considerable genus dispersed over the temperate and mountainous regions ol Europe and 
Asia, but scarcely tropical. The only Australian species appears to be endemic. 
