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inside ; lobes 5, imbricate, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, much below the 
mouth of the tube in the long-styled, or in the throat and \ exserted in the 
short-styled forms ; anthers small, oblong, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; 
ovules erect, with short funicles ; style filiform, 2-partite ; stigmas capitate. 
Nutlets usually 4 (rarely fewer by abortion), erect, oblong or 
acuminate from a broad base, rugose or more or less tuberculate ; scar 
basal, large, triangular, flat, shortly produced up the inner face. 
Species about 12. 
Distribution : — N. Africa, Western and Central Asia. 
1. Arnebia hispidissima (Spreng.) DC. Prodr. X, 94 ; Boiss. FI. Or. 
IY, 213; Clarke Joum. Linn. Soc. XVIII, 524 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. 
IY, 176. 
Anchusa hispidissima Sieb. H. Aeg. 
Strobila hispidissima G. Don Gen. Syst. IV, 327. 
Anchusa asperrima Del. FI. d’ Eg. p. 7, N. 210. 
Dioclea hispidissima Spreng. Syst. Yeg. I, 556. 
Echiochilon hispidissimum Tausch in Flora (1829) p. 643. 
Lithospermum hispidissimum Lehm.Ic. t. 39. 
Toxostigma luteum A Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. J I, 86. 
Description /--Annual or biennial, 3—15 inches high, diffusely branched 
from a woody base, clothed all over with long white spreading stiff hairs 
often from bulbous bases. Leaves sessile, J — 2 inches by T V“ i inch 
linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, clothed with stiff white hairs from bulbous 
bases. 
Flowers dimorphic, in dense secund racemes or spikes ; pedicels very 
short or 0 ; bracts foliaceous, 4 — J inch long, linear-lanceolate, densely 
hispid. Calyx \ inch long, very hispid, divided to the base or nearly so ; 
segments lanceolate, acute, unequal. Corolla yellow, pubescent outside ; 
tube J inch long, slender, lobes y^ inch long, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 
inserted much below the mouth of the corolla in the long-styled, at or in 
the throat and half-exserted in the short-styled forms ; anthers inch 
long, oblong ; filaments very short. Style slender, 2-partite ; stigmas 
small, flattened on the inside, rounded on the outside. 
Nutlets 4, very small, -^ — y^ inch long, triangular in horizontal cross- 
section, acute, tuberculate on all sides. 
Locality : — On rocks along the path leading to the top of Shum Shum 
Range at a height of about 900 — 1,000 feet (Busse) ; without locality 
(Birdw.). 
Distribution : — Egypt, Nubia,, Kordofan Abyssinia, Eritrea, S. Arabia, 
Sind, Punjab, Upper Gangetic Plain, Rajputana. 
