Gen. Caan. Calyx somewhat 5-parted, lobes ovate-lanceolate,
acute : corolla cup-shaped, tube not exceeding the calyx, throat
very oWtusely emarginate with five scales, lobes of the limb some-
what rounded : anthers included under the middle of the tube:
nectary small, annular, or a disk prominent around the ovary :
ovary 4-partite : style very short: stigma capitellate : nuts four,
or by abortion two, distinct, longer than the persistent style,
kidney-shaped : seed obovoid : radicle superior.—Annual or bi-
ennial herbs, strigose or hispid : flowers short pedicelled, arrang-
ed in a leafy raceme, extra-axillary, white or blue.
(1) B. renertum. (Fisch. )


Ident. Dee. prod. X. p. 116.
Syn. Anchusa tenella, Roem. §& Schult.—Cynoglossum diffu-
sum, Roxb. fl. Ind. Ed. Car. If. p. 7.—D. prostratum, Don. fl.
Nep. prod. p. 100.
Serc. Cuar. Stems much branched with adpressed strige:
leaves oval-oblong, covered with adpressed hairs, lower ones petiol-
ed: fructiferous calyces longer than the pedicel, nodding: flowers
small, white, often slightly reddish at the throat,


Bengal. Hindostan.
(2) B.? martFotium. (Dec. )


Ident. Dee. prod. X. p. 116.
Syn, Cynoglossum marifolium, Roxb. flor, Ind. Ed, Car. Ti
p. 8.
339


Spec. Cuar. ‘Stems branched, hairy, procumbent : leaves bifa-
rious, subsessile, oblong or elliptic, hairy beneath: flowers pale-
agure, axillary or interfoliaceous : seeds rough, globose.
Eastern Bengal.
GENUS IX. CYNOGLOSSUM.
Pentandria Momogynia. Sex: Syst:


Deriv. From Kuon, a dog, and-Glossa, a tongue; the leaves
resemble a dog’s tongue.
