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or lanceolate, nearly so, 3-6 in. long. Flowers in terminal 
corymbs on flexuose densely hairy slender pedicels 1-1J in. long. 
Sepals lanceolate, densely ciliated on the edge and keel, finally 
i-j- in. long, not auricled at the base. Corolla just exserted from 
the calyx, the expanded limb under | in. broad. Anthers straw- 
coloured, twisted, pilose, i in. long. Nucules i in. long, ovoid, rather 
flattened, glossy, brownish on the outside, dull and slightly rugose on 
the inside. Borago zeylanica, Linn . ; Jacq. Ic. t. 314. 
Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Seychelles, frequent everywhere in waste ground. 
Tropical Asia and Africa. Bourrache sauvage. 
2. T. indicum, R. Br. ; DC. Prod. x. 172. More slender in habit 
than T. zeylanicum , with lingulate amplexicaul leaves, smaller sepals 
produced into an auricle on each side at the base^ and a larger corolla, 
anthers, and nucules. Borago indica, Linn. 
Mauritius, frequent in waste ground. Tropical Asia. 
# Bothriospermum tenellum , F. and M. ; DC. Prod. x. 117, (Anchusa 
zeylanica, Jacq.fil. Eel. i. 47 t. 29), common through Tropical Asia, is 
found occasionally in Mauritius in cultivated ground. It is a diffuse 
much-branched annual, half a foot high, with slender bristly stems, 
small petioled oblong rugose acute alternate leaves, flowers in lax 
terminal racemes each on a short pedicel from the axil of a reduced 
leaf, calyx campanulate in. long with lanceolate teeth, corolla minute 
hypocrateriform with the throat of the tube closed with 5 obtuse scales, 
nucules oblong-trigonal minute obtuse papillose with an oblong um- 
bilicus in the middle of the inner face. 
5. CYNOGLOSSUM, Linn. 
Sepals 5, small, distinct. Corolla funnel-shaped, with small round 
spreading lobes, its throat closed by obtuse scales. Ovary 4-lobed ; 
style short, filiform ; stigma capitate. Anthers globose, nearly or quite 
sessile at the throat of the tube. Nucules 4,' spreading, subglobose, 
prickly. — Herbs, with alternate leaves, the flowers in long lax leafless 
secund racemes. Distrib. Cosmopolitan. Species 40. 
Leaves lanceolate; sepals linear 1. C. Rochelia. 
Leaves linear ; sepals lanceolate 2. C. borbonicttm. 
1. C. Rochelia, A. DC. Prod. x. 153. An erect annual, 2-3 feet 
high, more or less branched, with stems thinly clothed with short hairs. 
Leaves membranous, glabrescent above, rather bristly below, oblong, 
acute, narrowed to the base, the largest 4-5 in. long, 1-1| in. broad. 
Bacemes very lax, bractless, simple or forked, 2-4 in. long ; pedicels 
longer than the calyx, cernuous after flowering. Sepals ligulate, in. 
long. Corolla whitish, scarcely longer than the calyx. Nucules ovoid- 
