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Plate 44] CYNOGLOSSUM 51<br />
as long as the tube, furnished at the mouth with 5 almost<br />
square scales which are larger than the anthers. Stamens<br />
included in the corolla-tube, very short. Ovary flattened,<br />
4-lobed, 4-celled. Style simple, fixed between the lobes of the<br />
ovary. Nutlets 4, round, r in. diameter, densely covered<br />
with hooked bristles on the margin, outer surfaces concave<br />
with few hooked bristles.<br />
Flowers. May to August.<br />
Locality. Gulmarg, open margs, above 8,000 ft., not<br />
abundant<br />
;<br />
Saida Kadal, in wheat-fields.<br />
Distribution. Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Tibet,<br />
Assam, Central and S. India (not in Ceylon).<br />
Cynoglossum microglochin,<br />
Benth.<br />
An erect, hairy plant, 1-3 ft. high. Basal leaves stalked,<br />
oblong-elliptic, about 2 in. long, f in. broad, stem-leaves many,<br />
almost stalkless, egg-shaped or elliptic, sharp-pointed, densely<br />
hairy beneath, 3-4 in. long, lf-2 in. broad. Eacemes denseflowered,<br />
lower fruiting flower-stalks as long as the calyx.<br />
Sepals lance-shaped, sharp-pointed, i in. long, hairy. Corolla<br />
blue, funnel-shaped, | in. long, limb about i in. broad, cleft to<br />
the base, scarcely shorter than the tube, furnished at the<br />
throat with trapeziform scales. Style slightly longer than the<br />
calyx. Nutlets egg-shaped, scarcely ^ in. long, concave on the<br />
outer face, smooth, with hooked bristles on the margin, scar<br />
triangular.<br />
Flowers.<br />
July to September.<br />
Locality. Srinagar.<br />
Distribution. Temperate W. Himalaya, 7,000-11,000 ft.,<br />
from Kashmir to Kumaon.<br />
Pig. 2. Cynoglossum zeylanicum, Thunb. (^ C. furcatum,<br />
Wall.). Ceylon Hound's Tongue. Collett, fig. 104,<br />
Stem erect, stout, 1-3 ft. high, simple or branched, hairy.<br />
Basal leaves long-stalked, oblong or elliptic, 6-8 in. long,<br />
lj-3i in. broad, densely hairy on both sides, wedge-shaped at<br />
the base, secondary nerves very prominent on lower surface,<br />
stalk up to 5 in. long, lower stem-leaves short-stalked, upper<br />
stalkless, gradually getting smaller upwards, oblong or lanceshaped.*<br />
Mowers very many in one-sided racemes which form<br />
a large panicle, flower-stalks shorter than the calyx in fruit.<br />
Calyx cieft for about f its length, lobes egg-shaped, blunt,<br />
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