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50 BEAUTIFUL FLOWEBS OF KASHMIR [Plate
BORAGINACEAE,
The Borage Family,
Plate 44
(Named from Borago, a genus which is not represented in India.
The derivation of B orago is very uncertain.)
CYNOGLOSSUM, Linn.
The Hound's Tongue.
(From Tcyon, a dog, and glossa, a tongue, in allusion to the rough
leaves of some species.)
A. Nutlets attached by their tips to the style
and separating from it when ripe.
I. Scales at the throat almost square
or trapeziform.
1 . Nutlets with a distinct margin.
a. Corolla scarcely ^ in. long...
b. Corolla 5- in. long ... ...
2. Nutlets without a distinct margin
II. Scales transversely linear, much
broader than long
... ...
B. Nutlets free from the style even before
they are ripe.
1. Corolla about J in. diameter ...
2. Corolla about f in. diameter ...
C. glochidiatum.
C. microglochtn-
C. zeylamcum.
C. lanceolatum.
C. petiolatum.
C. nervosum.
Fig. 1. Cynoglossum glochidiatum, Wall. (Including
C. Wallichii, G- Don. and C. denticulatum, A. DC. of
Hooker's "Flora of British India.")
(Glochidiatum means having hooked bristles, alluding to the nutlets
of this species.)
Stem erect, 1-2 ft. high, simple or branched, hairy. Basal
leaves long-stalked, lance-shaped or oblong, 2-4i in. long,
1-2 in. broad, ciliate or finely toothed on the margin ,narrowed
into a stalk 2J-3J in. long, hairy on both surfaces with hairs
arising from calcareous tubercles, often very hairy on the
main-nerve below ;
stem-leaves short-stalked or stalkless,
gradually getting smaller upwards, sharp-pointed. Flowers in
many, dense-flowered, one-sided racemes arising from* the axils
or the end of the branches flower-stalks shorter than the
;
calyx in fruit. Sepals oblong or oblong-elliptic, J -nerved,
more or less densely ciliate, up to T\ in. long. Corolla blue,
bell-shaped, yV& in. long, limb cleft almost to the base, almost