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LITHOSPERMUM davuricum.
Daurian Gromwell.
Natural Order. Boragineìe. Rroicn p r o d r .l. p . 492.
Tribus I I . Nuces quatuor, uniloculares.
B. Nuces distinct a, fundo calycis affixm.—a. Faux corolla
pervia.
L IT H O S P E R M U M . CaZyx 5-partitus. CoroZ/a iufundi-
buliformis. An th e ra \nc\xxsie.. Nmcé» basi imperforati*-, ovata.
Spreng, syst. veg. 1. p . 502.
L. davuricum, foliis obsolete nervosis scabriusculis: radicalibus
ovatis obtusis : caulinis lanceolatis acuminatis, racemis laxis
subpaniculatis, calycibus obtusiusculis subvillosis.
Litbospermum davuricum. Lehm, asperif. I I . p . 296. Link,
enum. 1. p. 168. Spreng, syst. veg. 1. p . 546.
Pulmonaria davurica. Bot. mag. t. 1743. Roem. ei Schult. 4.
p. 55. H ort. sub. lond. p . 30.
R o o t perennial, somewhat creeping. Stems erect,
from 6 inches to a foot in height, paniculately branched,
angular and farrowed, rough, and clothed with decumbent
white hairs. Leaves rotighish, slightly glaucous,
also clothed Avith small decumbent hairs: root ones
petiolate, ovate, bluntish, strongly nerved underneath ;
those on the stalk sessile, lanceolate, taper-pointed,
points generally reflexed or revolute, sometimes tAvisted,
and the margins on the upper ones more or less rolled
back. Flowers in panicles, of a bright azure blue
when expanded, before expansion of a flesh colour or
light purple; racemes lengthening out, often forked,
cernuons. Pedicles short, densely clothed with close-
pressed Avhite hairs, as .is the calyx. Calyx deeply
5-cleft: segments short, lanceolate, keeled at the back,
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