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LXXXFV. BORAGINEiE. 
[Trichodesma. 
the base, sometimes much enlarged round the fruit. Corolla-lobes broad, 
longer than the calyx, the points narrow, spirally-twisted in the bud as well 
as the long anther-points. Nuts smooth and shining. — A. DC. Prod. x. 172, 
with the synonyms adduced ; Bot. Mag. t. 4820 ; Borat/o zeylanica, Linn. Mant. 
202; Burm. FI. Ind. 41 t. 14, fig. 2; Txiocan/a Kotschyana, Hochst. in FI. 
1844, 30. 
Hab.: I-dauds of the Gulf of Carpentaria, li. Brown and other*; Keppel and Shoalwater Bays, 
B. Brown; common from Cape York to Moreton Bay and in the interior, A. Cunningham, F. v. 
Mueller, and many others. 
Var. latisepalum, F. v. M. Calyx-segments short, and broad, almost cordate but not 
auriculate.— Burdekin River, F. v. Mueller. 
Var. sericeum. Stem and fo iage very hoary with a close soft tomentum. — T. sericeum, Lindl. 
in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 258. — Belyando River, Mitchell. 
The species is common in the E Indian peninsula, in Ceylon, and in tropical Africa. 
Camels are said to be particularly fond of this herb. 
8. CYNOGLOSSUM, Linn. 
(From kyon, a dog, and yhma, a tongue.) 
(Omphalodes. Mimch. i 
Calyx deeply divided into 5 segments. Corolla with a short broad tube, the 
throat closed with scales opposite the lobes, the limb spreading, almost rotate, 
5-lobed. Anthers enclosed in the tube. Ovary 4-lobed ; style shortly filiform, 
inserted between the lobes, with a small usually capitate stigma. Nuts 4, 
depressed, attached by the inner end of the under surface or by the inner edge 
to the convex or hemispherical receptacle, the upper surface usually more or less 
covered w T ith short hooked prickles or bordered by a raised often toothed margin. 
Seeds without albumen ; radicle short. — Herbs clothed with stiff hairs, either 
appressed and hoary or spreading, sometimes reduced to scattered tubercles. 
Leaves most frequently entire. Flowers blue purplish or rarely white, in 
one-sided simple or forked racemes, with or without bracts. 
The genus is widely dispersed over the temperate and warmer regions of the Old World. The 
Australian species appear to be all endemic. 
Diffuse or straggling. Leaves ovate, petiolate. Floral leaves or bracts at 
or near all the pedicels 1C. latifolium. 
Erect. Leaves lanceolate or oblong. 
Nuts glochidiate all over. 
Pedicels longer than the calyx, with bracts at or near them all, or at 
least the lower ones 2. C. suaveolens. 
Pedicels shorter than the calyx. Bracts none 8. C.australe. 
Nuts glochidiate only on the raised margin or rarely along a central 
raised riuge. Bracts none .... 4. C. Drummondii . 
1. C. latifolium (broad-leaved), 11. Br. Prod. 495 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 
408. A perennial, with diffuse or straggling branching stems, extending some- 
times to several feet, scabrous with scattered tubercles, which rarely lengthen 
into short hairs or prickles. Leaves petiolate, ovate, acute, quintuplinerved, 
the lower often at least 2in. long, the upper ones gradually smaller and more 
sessile, ultimately reduced to small bracts. Flowers small, on slender recurved 
pedicels, usually by the side of or rather below the floral leaves or bracts. 
Calyx-segments rather broad, obtuse or shortly acuminate, about 1 line long 
but somewhat enlarged after flowering. Nuts obovate, spreading, convex, 
glochidiate all over, attached by the inner end of the under surface. — DC. Prod, 
x. 15G ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 280. 
Hab.: Not uncommon on damp land in southern localities. 
