¥ ‘ . . iy 9s Na a ale F tf} Be) 5 Vol. IV.—Seet, II. | Price 8s, net. ) R IT} FLORA CAPENSIS: : BEING A SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANTS OF THE Ns COLONY, CAFFRARIA, ‘AN D PORT NATAL (AND NEIGHBOURING TERRITORIES) } By VARIOUS BOTANISTS. EDITED BY one, h Sir WILLIAM T, THISELTON-DYER, ou 0. Mei “= C.LE., LLD., F.R.8. * HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CH.RCI, OXFORD, git = DIRECTOR, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. ao we “ PUBLISHED UNDER THE: AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF TRE iy CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AND’ NATAL. a aes . * t 9 / LONDON: Ke LOVELL, REEVE & 30. Lourep, PUBLISHERS TO THE HOME, COLONIAL, AN D INDIAN GOVERNMENTS, ty 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. OU 1904. ee, DATES OF PUBLICATION OF THE SEVERAL PARTS THIS VOLUME. | 2 aes Part I, pp. 1-192, was published February, 1904, Parr IT., pp. 193-384, was published July, 1904. Parr IIL, pp. 385-479, was published October, 1904. QRIOS \AO4 ve FLORA CAPENSIS: BEING A Systematic Description of the Plants OF THE CAPE COLONY, CAFFRARIA, & PORT NATAL (AND NEIGHBOURING TERRITORIES) BY VARIOUS BOTANISTS. BUSTED BY SIR WILLIAM T. THISELTON-DYER, K.C.M.G., C.LE., LG-D., Se.D., F.R.S. HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD. DIRECTOR, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. Published under the authority of the Governments of the Cape of Good Hope and Natal. VOLUME IV. Skgction 2, — HYDROPHYLLACEM TO PEDALINEA. LONDON . LOVELL REEVE & CO., LTD., 6 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. Publishers to the Home, Colonial, & Envian Goveraments, ; 1904, Mo. Bot. Garden 1905 PREFACE. On the completion of Volume VII., it was intended to take up the work with Volume IV. at the point at which it had been left by Professor Harvey and Dr. Sonpgr. It was found, however, that owing to the large increase of material, it would be necessary to divide the volume into two sections, Unforeseen but unavoidable difficulties arose in dealing with the first section, the preparation of which, however, is now far advanced. In the meantime it seemed unadvisable to delay the publication of the second section, which is now completed. The smaller orders have been worked out by members of the Kew staff past and present. For the Scrophulariacex, so extensively represented in South Africa, I am indebted to W. P. Hiern, Esq., F.R.S. For the limits of the regions under which the localities in which the species have been found to occur are cited, reference may be made to the preface to Volume VI. I have again to acknowledge the assistance I have received from Mr, C. H. Wricat, A.L.S., and Mr. N. E. Brown, A.L.S., Assistants in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic -Gardens—the former in reading the proofs, and the latter in working out the geographical distribution, Besides the maps already cited in the prefaces to Volumes VI. and VII., the following have also been used :— Map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and neigh- bouring territories. Compiled from the best available infor- mation. By Joun Tempter Horvg, Surveyor-General. 1895. Stanford’s new map of the Orange Free State and the southern part of the South African Republic, &e. 1899. Carte du Thédtre de la Guerre Sud-Africaine. Par le & Colonel Camille Favre. 1902. vi PREFACE, To the South African correspondents enumerated in the preface to Volume VI., I have again to tender my acknow- ledgments for the contribution of specimens. I must further record my obligations to others, and especially to those whose aid in various ways has been of the greatest value in the preparation of the volume :— Harry Bou.vs, Esq., D.Sc., F.L.S., besides transmitting to Kew on loan the whole of the South African Scrophulariacex in his herbarium, has contributed a valuable series of speci- mens belonging to the order. Geheimrath Dr. A. Enoarzr, Director of the Botanic Garden and Museum, Berlin, has contributed Pondoland plants collected by Bachman. Davin Exnest Hurcuins, Esq., Conservator of Forests and Consulting Forest Officer, Cape Colony, has sent specimens from the Woodbush Mountains, Transvaal. Lieut. J. W. C. Kirk has sent a small collection from Komati Poort, Transvaal. _ Dr. Hans Scurnz, Director of the Botanic Garden and Museum, Zurich, has contributed numerous specimens collected by Schlechter and others, Dr, Sermar Scwintanp, Curator of the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, has sent a specimen of Rhigozwm obovatum. Dr. ALEXANDER ZAHLBRUCKNER, Keeper of the Botanic Collections of the Naturhistorische Hofmuseum, Vienna, has lent types of Utricularia. It only remains again to add that the expenses of prepara- tion and publication of the present volume have been aided by grants from the-Cape Colony and Natal. Kew. October, 1904, Se NCES ane SEQUENCE OF ORDERS CONTAINED IN VOL. IV. SECT. 2, WITH BRIEF CHARACTERS. Continuation of Series III. Bicarpectata. Ord. XCI.—C. Conort viii. PonemMoniates. Corolla regular. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and alternate with them. eaves usually alternate. XCI. HYDROPHYLLACE (page 1). Corolla-lobes imbricate, rarely contorted. Ovaryspuriously 2-celled (in the South African species); ovules numerous; style deeply bifid. Capsule loculicidal. Rabie small; albumen fleshy. (Annual or perennial erect scabrid or spiny herbs. Leaves rarely opposite. Flowers cymose or solitary.) XCII. BORAGINEZ: (page 2). Corolla-lobes imbricate, rarely con- torted. Ovary 4-celled; ovules usually solitary; style entire or 2-4-fid. Nutlets 2 1-2-seeded or 4 1-seeded. Embryo rather large; radicle superior; albumen scanty or none. (Annual or — perennial herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves usually alternate, exstipulate. Inflorescence a dichotomous cyme with helicoid branches, or a unilateral raceme or spike.) XIII. CONVOLVULACE (page 45). Corolla-limh plicate, rarely | imbricate. Ovary 1—4-celled; cells 2- (rarely 1- or 4-)ovuled. Embryo with broad plicate cotyledons or much curved; radicle inferior; albumen scanty or none. (Herbs or shrubs, idles eld twining, or leafless parasites. Leaves usually exstipulate. wers solitary or cymose.) XCIV. SOLANACEAS (page 87). Corolla-limb plicate, rarely imbricate. Ovary 2-5-celled; ovules numerous. Lmbryo straight or spiral ; albumen fleshy. (Herbs or erect or climbing shrubs, Leaves alternate, geminate or verticillate, sometimes stellately tomentose. Cymes terminal, leaf-opposed or extra-axillary or flowers solitary.) Conort ix. PrrsonaLes. Corolla usually irregular or oblique. Stamens 2 or 4. Ovules numerous or 2 supe XCV. SCROPHULARIACE (page 121). Ovary perfectly 2-celled, Seeds usually albuminous. (Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves opposite, alternate or verticillate. In various.) XOVI. OROBANCHACEA: (page 421). Ovary 1-celled; placentas 4, parietal. (Leafless parasitic herbs. Spikes or racemes terminal, few- s : or many-flowered.) : XCVII. LENTIBULARIE (page 423). Ovary 1-celled; placenta globose or ovoid, basal. (Small aquatic or marsh herbs, furnished with small bladders. Racemes terminal or axillary, simple or branched.) Vill SEQUENCE OF ORDERS. XCVIII. GESNERACEA: (page 437). Ovary 1-celled; placentas 2, parietal, much intruded. (Herbs, nearly or quite stemless in the South African species. Cymes lax, many- (rarely 2-)flowered.) XCIX. BIGNONIACEA! (page 447). Ovary 2- (rarely 1-)celled; ovules numerous, in more or less regular rows. Seeds usually flat — with a broad wing, exalbuminous. (7rees or shrubs, frequently _ twining or climbing, very rarely herbs. Leaves usually opposite and — compound. Flowers paniculate or racemose, often large.) C. PEDALINEZ (page 454). Ovary 2-4- (rarely 1-)celled; cells 1- to many-ovuled. Seeds sometimes winged; albumen very thin. (Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, simple. Flowers usually solitary and axillary.) FLORA CAPENSIS. Orper XCI. HYDROPHYLLACEZ, (By OC. H. Wrieur.) Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx inferior, 5- or 10-12. lobed, sometimes appendiculate in the sinus. Corol/a funnel-shaped, salver-shaped, campanulate or rotate ; lobes 5 or 10-12, imbricate, rarely contorted. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, usually fixed near the base of the corolla-tube, exserted or included ; fila- ments filiform, sometimes dilated or appendiculate at the base ; anthers ovate, oblong or linear, versatile, dehiseing by two longi- tudinal slits. Disk hypogynous, small or 0. Ovury superior, either l-celled -with 2 parietal placentas, or imperfectly or perfectly 2-celled ; style filiform, 2-fid, or styles 2, free; stigmas terminal, small or capitate; ovules 2-2, anatropous or amphitropous. “Capsule loculicidally (rarely septicidally) 2-valved, or dehiscing irregularly. Seeds oblong, globose or angled, 2-c, tubercled, reticulate or rugose, rarely smooth; albumen fleshy; embryo usually less than } the length of the albumen, straight; cotyledons plano-convex or semiterete. Annual or perennial herbs, rarely suffrutescent, usually hirsute or scabrid, sometimes densely bristly or spiny ; leaves radical or alternate, rarely opposite, entire, toothed or pinnately (rarely palmately) lobed; flowers usually subsessile along one side of the branches of a bifid or dichotomous scorpioid cyme, some- times in simple spikes or racemes, or axillary. Disrais. Genera 16 (1 only in South Africa); species about 150, chiefly in Western North America, a few extending along the Andes to Chili; also in the tropics of the Old World, and the Sandwich Islands, 1 in Japan. I. CODON, Linn. Calyx-lobes 10-12, linear, the alternate sometimessmaller. Corolla widely campanulate, very slightly constricted at the middle, without scales inside; lobes 10-12, broad, oblong, imbrieate, the alternate wider at the base. Stamens 10-12, slightly unequal; filaments hirsute below the middle; anthers oblong. Ovary spuriously 2- celled by the intrusion of the placentas ; style filiform, usually short, 2-fid ; stigmas small; ovules numerous. Capsule 2-valved; valves bearing the placentas on their centres. Seeds small, numerous, globose or angular, rugose. Erect herbs, clothed all over with straight white spines; leaves alternate, petioled, undivided; margins entire or sinuate-dentate; flowers cymose at the upex of the branches or solitary. ; YOL, IY.——SECT. II, BD 2 HYDROPHYLLACER (Wright). [ Codon. DistriB, Species 2, one extending into Tropical Africa. Corolla 12 lin. long, white and purple... 0... ees we. (1) Royeni. Corolla 6 lin. long, yellow ies “vs wee ane ... (2) Schenckii. 1. C. Royeni (Linn. Syst. ed. 12, 292); whole plant about 1 ft. high, pubeseent and furnished with straight spines 3 lin. long; stem terete, up to 4 lin. in diam. ; leaves ovate, cordate or rounded at the base, more or less sinuate, fleshy, 2 in. long, 1 in. wide ; petiole 9 lin. long ; calyx-lobes linear, obtuse, 6-10 lin. long, }-1 lin. broad ; corolla white, spotted or striped with purple; tube 6 lin. long; lobes 6 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ovate, rounded at the apex, midribs conspicuous ; filaments subulate, 7 lin. long ; anthers 2 lin. long, versatile ; ovary globose; style filiform. Andr. Rep. t. 325 ; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 389; Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 93; A.DC. in DC. Prod. x. 589 ; Engl. in Engl. Jahr6. x. 247. C. aculeatum, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 88, t. 95, fig. T. SoutH Arrica: without locality, Forster / CenTRAL ReEGIon: Ceres Div.; at Yuk River, near Yuk River Hoogte, Burchell, 1237! WesteRN ReGion: Little Namaqualand; near Spektakel, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Afr. Aust.,305! between Verleptpram and the mouth of the Orange River, under 1000 ft., Drége! Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Bokkeveld Flats, between Oliphants River and Kamos, Zeyher, 1263! Also in Hereroland. 2. C. Schenckii (Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 173); herbaceous or suffruticose, erect, 12-15 in. high, densely covered with glandular hairs, yellowish when young, white when old, spiny ; leaves lanceolate, acute, 14 in. long, 7 lin. broad, margins irregularly undulate; petiole 9 lin. long; flowers solitary, shortly pedicelled or subsessile ; calyx 10-12-partite, hairy ; corolla yellow, campanulate, sparingly hirsute; tube 3 lin. long; lobes 10-12, 3 lin. long ; filaments unequal ; style bifid ; capsule ovoid, shortly rostrate. Engl. in Engl. Jahrb, x. 248. C. Dreget, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 92, 174, name only. CO. luteum, Marloth § Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. ix. Beibl. 20, 3, name only; Engl. Jahrb. x. 248 (/utea). WESTERN REGION: Great Namaqualand; Gubub, Schenck, 17. Little Namaqualand ; between Hollegat River and the Orange River, 1000-1500 ft., Drége ! Extending into Tropical Africa. Orper XCII. BORAGINEZ. (By C. H. Wricut.) Flowers hermaphrodite, very rarely polygamous by abortion, regular, more rarely irregular, Calyx inferior, sometimes persistent ; tube campanulate or cylindrical, sometimes very short; lobes 5, rarely fewer or 6-8, longer or shorter than the tube, slightly imbricate or open, rarely valvate. Corolla funnel-shaped, tubular, salver- shaped, campanulate or rotate, 5- (rarely 4- or 6-00 -) lobed, often ‘BORAGINEE (Wright). 3 3 with scales or folds in the throat; lobes imbricate, rarely plicate or contorted. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, fixed in the throat or tube of the corolla, equal or slightly unequal ; filaments filiform or dilated at the base, sometimes with a scale at the base; anthers ovate, oblong or linear, obtuse or with produced connective, dorsifixed, more or less 2-lobed at the base; cells parallel, longi- tudinally and introrsely or laterally dehiscent, Disk annular, entire or 5-lobed, sometimes inconspicuous or obsolete. Ovary superior, confluent at the base with the disk, bicarpellate, entire or more or less completely 2—4-lobed, 4-celled; style terminal on the entire, gynobasic in the lobed ovary, filiform or columnar, entire or onee or twice divided ; stigma terminal or annular below the apex of the style, entire or 2-lobed; ovule solitary, erect or fixed to the inner angle of the cell. Fruit fleshy and enclosing 4 pyrenes, or dry and divided into 2 2-celled pyrenes or into 4 (or by abortion fewer) l-celled nutlets, flat or concave at the base, usually more or less oblique, spiny, rugose or smooth. Seeds erect, oblique or almost horizontal, straight or curved ; testa membranous; albumen fleshy, eopious, sparing or none; embryo straight or curved; cotyledons flat, plano-convex or thick and fleshy, entire, rarely 2-fid or plicate; radicle usually much shorter than the cotyledons. Annual or perennial herbs, shrubs or trees, very rarely climbing, scabrid- pubescent, hispid, bristly, softly tomentose, woolly or glabrous; stipules none ; leaves alternate, very rarely opposite or whorled, entire, dentate or very rarely lobed ; inflorescence normally a dichotomous cyme with helicoid branches, some- times a simple unilateral raceme or spike or an irregularly trichotomous panicle, more rarely of 1-2 flowers in the axils of the leaves ; bracts leafy, small or none ; flowers blue, violet, white, yellow, very rarely red. 3 Distris. Genera about 70, species about 1200, cosmopolitan. Mertensia siberica, Don, a common North American and Siberian plant, has been collected by Gilfillan (in Herb. Galpin, 6235 partly) near Johannesburg, where it was no doubt an introduction. A second species of Mertensia was collected at the same time and place, but the material is insufficient for specific determination. , * Ovary entire or slightly 4-lobed ; style terminal. { Style once or twice forked. I. Cordia.—Cotyledons plicate ; albumen none. 11. Ehretia.—Cotyledons flat or plano-convex ; albumen scanty. {+} Style entire or very shortly 2-lobed. Ill, Tournefortia.—Fruit fleshy, rarely corky, enclosing two 2-celled or four 1-celled pyrenes. 2. 1V. Heliotropium.— Fruit at length dividing into four separate nutlets, or the nutlets united into 2 pairs. ** Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style gynobasic. + Connective much prodaced at the apex. V. Trichodesma.—Only South African genus. +7 Connective not or very slightly produced at the apex. + Nutlets much laterally compressed, crenate or winged on the margins. VI. Tysonia.—Ouly South African genus. tt Nutlets not laterally compressed, spiny. VIL. Cynoglossum.—Nutlets depressed. 4 B ee ; BORAGINEX (Wright). VIII. Echinospermum.—Nutlets not depressed. ttt Nutlets not laterally compressed, smooth, rugose or granular. IX. Anchusa.—Corolla regular. Bracts present in the South African species. Filaments glabrous. Nutlets rugose, broad at the base. : X. Myosotis.—Corolla regular. Bracts none, or few at the base of the in- florescence. Filaments glabrous. Nutlets smooth, small at the base. XI. Lithospermum.—Corolla regular. Bracts present. Filaments glabrous. Nuilets smooth or rugose, small at the base. XII. Lebostemon.—Corolla irregular. Bracts present. Filaments with a tuft of hairs or ciliate scale at the base. Nutlets rugose or granular, small at the base, XILI. Echium.—Corolla irregular. Bracts present. Filaments glabrous or with longitudinally scattered hairs. Nutlets rugose, small at the base. I. CORDIA, Linn. Calyx tubular or campanulate, ribbed or smooth, 3—5-toothed, often enlarged in fruit. Corolla funnel-shaped, salver-shaped or campanu- late; lobes 5 to many, imbricate or somewhat contorted. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, exserted or included. Ovary 4-celled ; style elongate, 2-fid, its branches more or less deeply 2-fid; stigma capitate or clavate; ovule erect. Fruit drupaceous, of 4 or fewer l-seeded cells; putamen often bony. Seed exalbuminous; cotyle- dons thick or thin, plicate; radicle short. Trees or shrubs: leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, petiolate, entire or toothed ; flowers usually yellow or white, in cymes, spikes or heads. Distris. Species about 250, distributed throughout the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 1, C. caffra (Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 81); a shrub 6 ft. high; branches glabrous, terete; leaves ovate, acuminate, more or less” acute at the base, serrate or dentate, glabrous, 23 in. long, 12 in. broad ; petiole slender, up to 12 in. long; panicles terminal and _ lateral, eorymbose, shortly peduncled, branches glabrous or puberulous ; calyx campanulate, irregularly 3-4-toothed, glabrons, 2} lin, long; corolla 4- (rarely 5-) lobed, 3} lin. long, varying much in depth of lobing ; lobes oblong, sinuate; anthers oblong, rather longer than the filaments; ovary glabrous. CO. caffra, vars. natalensis, Zeyheri and erosa, Sonder, l.c. Cordia natalensis, Sond., C. Zeyheri, Sond., and C. erosa, Sond. in Linnea, l.c. Coast REGion: Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens River, near the Ford Burchell, 4656! Bathurst Div.; at the mouth of the Great Fish River, western side. Burchell, 3734! near Theopolis, between Riet Fontein and the sea shore, Burchell, 4103! Albany Div.; Bowker! Zeyher, 1! Bast London Div.: wooded valley, East London, 50 ft., Galpin, 5759! : Eastern Recon: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 682! near Durban Wilms, 1914! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 263 ! » Gueinzius, 97 P I regard Sonder’s varieties as varying sexual conditions. | II. EHRETIA, Linn. Calyx small, 5-partite. Corolla-tube short; lobes 5, imbricate, obtuse, patent. Stamens 5, affixed to the corolla-tube, usually | Ehretia.| BORAGINEX (Wright). 7% exserted ; filaments filiform; anthers ovate or oblong. Ovary 2-celled, or more or less perfeetly 4-celled ; style terminal, 2-fid ; _stigma capitate or clavate ; ovule inserted at or above the centre of the cell. Drupe small, usually globose ; endocarp hard, divided into 2 2-celled or 4 1-celled pyrenes. Seed straight; albumen scanty ; cotyledons ovate, not plicate. Trees or shrubs, glabrous or pubescent ; leaves alternate, entire or dentate; flowers small, usually white, in corymbose cymes or panicles, terminal and also axillary in the upper part of the stem. Distris. Species about 50 in the hotter parts of both hemispheres, but more numerous in the eastern. Leaves 14-43 in. long, smooth on both surfaces .., «. (1) hottentotica, Leaves not exceeding 1 in. in length, hispid above, tomen- tose below ... ae em iia ik ais .. (2) amena. 1. E. hottentotica (Burch. Trav. ii. 147); a shrub about 5 ft. high; branchlets terete, whitish ; leaves obovate, entire, smooth on both surfaces, scabrid on the margin, 1 in. long, 5 lin. broad ; petiole 1 lin. long; eymes corymbose, rhachis tomentose ; calyx tomentose ; lobes triangular, acute, 1 lin. long, rather longer than the tube, eorolla purple ; tube 2 lin. long; lobes rather shorter than the tube, ovate, obtuse; drupe globose, yellow, enclosing 4 pyrenes. DC. Prod. ix. 508. FE. zeyheriana, Buek ex Drége in Linnea, xx. 196; Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 5, t. 6. Ptttosporum commutatum, Krauss in Flora, 1844, 301, not of Putterl. Grumilia sp., Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 66, 182, 138. Capraria rigida, Thunb. Prodr, 103. Freylinia? rigida, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 617. Coast Rea@ion: Uitenhage Div.; near Uitenhage, Prior! in the forests of Addo and in the fields by the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 161! Witte River Station (Enon), Gill! Sam Tees Flats near Enon, Drége, 2360b! and without precise locality, Zeyher! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 93! Williamson ex Harvey, Blue Krantz, Burchell, 3626! Queenstown Diy. ; near Queenstown, Cooper, 3008! Kat River to Enon, 600-800, ft., Bawr, 1096! British Kaffraria, without precise locality, Cooper, 101! Hustern Districts, Cooper, 333 ! : ; Centra Recon: Willowmore Div. ; Witpoort Berg (Witte Berg ?), 2000- 3000 ft., Drége, 2360d ! Somerset Div. ; Somerset East, Bowker ! near Little Fish River and Great Fish River, 2000-3000 ft., Drége, 2360c! Carnarvon Div. ; at the northern exit of the Karree Bergen Poort, Burchell, 1574! Philipstown Div.; on the Table Mountain near the Horse’s grave (Boschdueven Kop ?), Burchell, 2690! Graaff Reinet Div. ; near Graaff Reinet, Burchell, 2117! Katanari Reeion: Griqualand West, between Griqua ‘own and Spuigslang, Burchell, 1704! Lower Campbell, Burchell, 1798! 1822! along the Vaal River, Burchell, 1763! Bechuanaland ; on Maadji Mountain, Burchell, 2373! Trans- vaal; on hills near Pretoria, MacLea in Herb. Bolus. 5712! De Kaap Valley, near Barberton, Thoracroft, 227 (in Herb. Wood, 4501)! Lydenberg, between Spitzkop and Komati River, Wilms, 598! Waterval River, Wilms, 597! | Eastern REGION: Natal; hillsnear Pietermaritzburg, Krauss, 376! Inanda, Wood, 679! 1074! Mooi River Valley, 2000-3000 ft., Sutherland / and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1470! 1471! 1472! Sanderson, 11! The reduction of Capraria rigida, Thunb., to this species is made from an examination of’Thunberg’s type by Mr. W. P. Hiern. 2. E. amena (Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 248); a 6 BORAGINEX (Wright). : | Ehvetia. branched shrub; branches terete, ashy-grey, sparingly tubercled ; branchlets pubeseent; leaves obovate, up to 4} by 2} in., cuneate at the base, rounded or acute at the apex, hispid above, tomentose beneath; cymes corymbose, pseudo-dichotomous, terminal ; calyx pubescent; lobes oblong, obtuse ; corolla rotate, three times as long as the calyx ; lobes oblong, rather acute, puberulous on the margin ; stamens inserted in the corolla-throat; ovary oblong-ovoid, 4-celled, 4-ovuled ; style straight, cylindrical ; stigma capitate ; berry globose- ovoid, glabrous ; pyrenes 2, bony, 2-celled, 2-seeded. KataHarRi ReGion: Transvaal; Avoca, near Barberton, 1900 ft., Galpin, 1242! Also in Tropical East Africa, northwards to Mt. Kilimanjaro. Ill. TOURNEFORTIA, Linn. Calyx 5-partite; lobes linear, lanceolate or oblong, imbricate or open. Corolla-tube cylindrical with a slight swelling at the insertion of the stamens, naked in the throat; lobes 5, imbricate or indupli- cate, sometimes wide and plicate or undulate, sometimes narrowly acuminate, patent. Stamens 5, included ; filaments short; anthers ovate, oblong or lanceolate, apiculate or blunt. Disk scarcely any or cup-shaped. Ovary entire, 4-celled ; style terminal, simple, with a stigmatic ring beneath the obtusely 2-lobed apex, rarely stigmatic at the very apex. Drupe small; exocarp fleshy orcorky; pyrenes 4, usually distinct, straight or ineurved, rarely connate in pairs or consolidated into a 4-celled putamen. Seeds pendulous or oblique, straight, incurved or almost horse-shoe shaped; albumen fleshy, copious or sparse; embryo straight or curved ; cotyledons ovate or elliptic, flat or plano-convex ; radicle short. ‘Trees or sometimes climbing shrubs, rarely suffruticose ; leaves alternate, quite entire ; flowers rather small; cymes usually dichotomously corymbose, terminal, many-flowered. DIistRiB. Species about 100, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 7 1. T. tuberculosa (Cham. in Linnza, iv. 467); stem suffraticose, / erect, branched (usually from the base), with short adpressed white hairs; leaves shortly petiolate, lanceolate, sinuate-undulate, acute, scabrid on both sides with short bulbous-based hairs, usually 8 by 3 lin.; cymes terminal, usually bifid, up to 5 in. long ; calyx-lobes ovate, acute; corolla white; tube 3 lin. long, constricted in the lower half ; lobes ovate, acuminate ; fruit ellipsoid, glabrous, erested with tubercles when dry. Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, ye é DC. Prod. ix. 528. 7. tubercularis, Drége, t.c., 57, 59, 63, Var 8, macrophylla (C. H. Wright); 1 to 14 by 5 lin.; peti iS egy ( tight); leaves up to y 5 lin.; petioles up CentRAL REGion: Culvinia Div.; between Lospers Plaats and Springbok Kuil River, Zeyher, 1236; Prince Albert Div. ; Ganka River, Mund t Mates (ex Chamisso); near Zwartbulletje, Drége (ex E. Meyer). Colesberg Div. ; Colesberg, Shaw, 32! Drege, 7836a! Victoria West; Nieuwveld, between Brak Tournefortia. | BORAGINEE (Wright). 7 River and Uilvlugt, 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 7836b! Var. 8. Graaff Reinet Div. ; banks of the Broederstroom, near Graaif’ Reinet, 2600 ft., Bolus, 728! Westran Reeion : Great Namaqualand; Aus, Schinz, 828! Katanari Recion: Griqualand West; around Kimberley, 4000 ft., Bolus in Herb. Norm. Austr. Afr., 380! Also in Tropical South-west Africa. IV. HELIOTROPIUM, Linn. Calyx more or less deeply 5-lobed; lobes linear or lanceolate. Corolla: tube cylindrical, naked at the throat ; lobes 5, imbricate or induplicate, sometimes wide and plieate or undulate, sometimes ending in a narrow inflexed point, patent at time of flowering. Stamens 5, fixed in the corolla-tube, included ; filaments very short ; anthers ovate, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, mucronate or shortly appendaged at the apex. Ovary 4-lobed and 4-celled, or 2-celled with each cell again almost divided into 2; style terminal, very short, or moderately long, with a depressed conic or broad stigmatic ring below the apex; ovule pendulous from the inner angle of the cell near its apex. uit somewhat fleshy, 2- or 4-sulcate or -lobed, at length dividing into 4 distinct or geminately cohering nutlets. Seeds straight or curved; albumen usually scanty; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle short. Herbs or undershruhs, rarely shrubs, villous or scabrid, rarely quite glabrous ; leaves alternate, rarely subopposite ; flowers usually small, sometimes along the branches of forked scorpioid cymes, sometimes axillary or in simple leaty racemes, DistR1B. Species about 150, throughout the tropical and temperate regions of the world. Corolla-tube short: Leaves linear, glabrous me wea ee ... (1) currassavicum, Leaves oval, hairy: dihise Lateral nerves not impressed above... ... (2) ovalifolium, Lateral nerves conspicuously impressed above (3) supinum. Corolla-tube long : Calyx as long as the corolla-tube ... eee .. (4) tubulosum, Calyx much shorter than the corolla-tube : Leaves oblong-lanceolate ... is ie (8) Nelsoni. Leaves linear Ses Sig is ... (6) lineare, 1. H. currassavicum (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i.'130) ; rootstock woody ; stem woody ; branched from the base, up to 10 in. high, glabrous ; leaves oblong, obtuse, tapering downwards into a short petiole, up to 1 in. by 3 lin., glabrous, slightly verrucose ; cymes often branched, up to 11 in. long; peduncle up to 9 lin. long; calyx quite glabrous, irregular ; lobes linear or triangular, obtuse ; corolla slightly exserted from the calyx; lobes ovate-triangular, one much larger than the rest ; stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers ovoid, acute ; nutlets with two small flat and one very large convex side, slightly rugose on the back. Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 63, 130; DC. Prod. ix. 538. Var. 8, virens (DC. Prod. ix. 538); more robust than the type; leaves up to 1} in. by 4lin. H. virens, E. Meyer ew DC. Prod, ix. 538. 8 BoRAGINER (Wright). [ Heliotropium. Coast Region: Vanrhynsdorp Diy. ; by the Oliphants River, on the borders of Little Namaqualand ; Atherstone, 8! Uitenhage Div.; on salinous marshy rounds by the Zwartkops River, Zeyher ! : Games REGIon: rime Atvere Div. bulletje, Drége ! : WesTERN Recton: Var. 8, Little Namaqualand; by the Orange River, near Verleptpram, Drége / Katanari Recion: Griqualand West, Hay Div.; between Riet Fontein (Aukaap) and Kloof Village in the Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 2018! 2019! Herbert Div.; between the Orange and Vaal Rivers, Bolus, 1827! ; between Dwyka River and Zwart- 2. H. ovalifolium (Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. 38); stem woody, branched from near the base, densely covered with adpressed hairs, up to 1 ft. high and 3 lin. in diam. ; leaves oval, slightly tapering downwards, apiculate, 1 in. by 5 lin., densely clothed on both surfaces with adpressed hairs; petiole 5 lin. or less long; cymes usually once forked, elongating to 9 in. in fruit; calyx 1 lin. long, adpressedly hairy outside; lobes 5, unequal, reaching nearly to the base of the calyx, lanceolate, acute ; corolla twice as long as the calyx ; lobes 3 by 2 lin., ovate, acute; stamens inserted below the middle of the corolla-tube; filaments short, very slender; anthers oblong ; connective produced into a beak as long as the anther-cell ; ovary glabrous ; style thick, pyramidal, as long as the ovary; nutlets 4, each nestling in a calyx-lobe, flat on the two inner faces, convex on the back. Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv.150. H.coromandelianum, Retz. Obs. ii. 9; Lehm. Pl. Asper. 46; B obovatum, DC. Prod, ix. 541. H. apiculatum, E. Meyer in Drige, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 93. Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div. ; by the river at Enon, Drége! Albany Div. ; by the Fish River, Gill! Western Reaion: Little Namaqualand ; by the Orange River, near Verlept- pram, below 500 ft., Drege ! Katanari Reeion: Griqualand West, Herbert Div.; in fields, St. Clair, near Douglas, Orpen in Herb. MacOwan, 1926! Transvaal; Boshveld, at Klippan, Rehmann, 5295! Also widely spread in Tropical Asia, Tropical Africa, and Madagascar. / %. HL. supinum (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 130); hirsute; stem herba- ceous, decumbent at the base; leaves opposite or alternate, oval, obtuse, more or less crenate, up to 9 by 6 lin., shortly petioled ; cymes simple or once forked, up to 5 in. long; calyx 12 lin. long, hairy outside ; lobes 4 as long as the tube, obtuse; corolla-tube as long as the calyx; lobes exserted, very short, rounded ; stamens inserted just below the middle of the corolla-tube ; ovary glabrous ; style as long as the ovary ; mature nutlets 1-2 to each flower, 2 lin. long, plano-convex, dark brown, with a lighter brown border, | enclosed in the persistent calyx, obscurely tubercled. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 160; Lehm. Pl. Asper. 48, excl. syn. Forsk.; Sibth. Fil. Gree. t. 157; DC. Prod. ix. 533. H. ambiguum, DC. Proid, ix. 533. HH. coromandelianum, Raddi ex DQ. Prod. ix. 533. Litho- spermum heliotropivides, Forsk. Fl. Zgypt.-Arab. 39, Piptoclaina supina, G. Don, Syst. Gen. iv. 364. oe Heliotropium.] BORAGINER® (Wright). 9 Soutn Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1238! Coast Recion: Van Rhyndorps Div.; near Ebenezer, below 100 ft., Drége, 7835! Tulbagh Div.; Piquetberg Road, Schlechter, 7835! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, MacGillivray, 609! Greenpoint, Ecklon! Uitenhage Div.; Valley of the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 20! Div. ? near Pharum, Lcklon, 90! Also in Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Canary Islands. 4, H. tubulosum (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 93) ; whole plant densely hirsute, 5 in. or more high; stem terete, up to 3 lin. diam.; leaves lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, up to 14 in, by 5 lin. ; petiole up to 6 lin. long; inflorescence a terminal cymose panicle; peduncles up to 1 in. long; eymes densely many-flowered, up to 3 in. long; calyx 3 lin. long, divided nearly halfway down into 5 linear obtuse lobes; corolla infundi- buliform ; tube slightly longer than the calyx; lobes broad, undulate ; stamens inserted about halfway up the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong, 1 lin. long, obtuse at both ends; ovary minute; style 14 lin. long, tapering towards both ends from a swollen dise about its middle, with numerous slightly reflexed hairs in its lower half; nutlets plano-convex, pubescent on the back. DC. Prod. ix. 537. Sout AFRICA: without locality, Herb. Forsyth ! WesTERN ReGion: Little Namaqualand; by the Orange River near Verlept- ga under 500 ft., Drége! Little Bushman Land, Kraiwater, Schlechter, ae Re@ion: Calvinia Div. ? Great Bushman Land, Wovtel, Schlechter, 3! Also in Tropical South-west Africa. 5. H. Nelsoni (C. H. Wright); stem much branched, terete, pilose ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, sometimes slightly undulate, hairy on the upper surface, pustulate on the lamina and hairy on the nerves beneath, 1 in. by 4 lin. ; cymes usually in pairs; peduncle up to 2 in. long; flowers secund ; calyx divided almost to the base into 5 linear segments, 13 by 3 lin., hirsute on both sides ; corolla salver- shaped ; tube 2—21 lin. long, adpressedly hairy outside ; limb 2} lin. diam. ; lobes obtuse, slightly undulate ; stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers % lin. long, apiculate, obtuse or slightly cordate at the base ; style 14 lin. long, conical above ; ovary conic. CENTRAL REGION: Colesberg Div.; Colesberg, Shaw ! Katanari Region: Griqualand West, Herbert Div.; between Spuigslang Fontein and the Vaal River, Burchell, 1714! along the Vaal River, Burchell, 1766! Transvaal; Linokana, Holub! bend of the Vaal River, Nelson, 219! 6. H. lineare (C. H. Wright); stem woody, terete, up to 1 ft. righ and 3 lin. in diam., adpressedly short hispid ; leaves linear, usually 8 by 12 lin. (rarely larger), with more or less deciduous adpressed hairs all over the upper surface and on the nerves beneath ; cymes (including the short peduncle) not exceeding 2 in. in length ; calyx 2 lin. long, with short adpressed hairs outside ; lobes oblong- ovate, apiculate ; corolla cream-coloured (Bowker), much longer than 10 BORAGINEX (Wright). [ Heliotropium. the calyx; tube cylindrical, 2 lin. long; lobes triangular, acuminate, 8 lin. long; stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers membranous, lanceolate, apiculate ; style about 1 lin, long, with a central disc, tapering downwards, tapering upwards into the bifid apex; nutlets with two large smooth flat and one small tubercled convex side. Tournefortia linearis, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflan- zengeogr. Documente, 57, 226. Heliophytum lineare, A.DC. in DC. Prod, ix. 555. CENTRAL ReGion: Richmond Div. ; Nieuwveld, between Nieuwjaars Fontein and Ezels Fontein, 3000-4000 ft., Drege ! : Karanari REGION: Hopetown Div.; near the Orange River, Muskett in Herb. Bolus, 1828! Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Asbestos Mountains, at the Kloof Village, Burchell, 1681! Plains between Griqua Town and Witte Water, Rurchell 1496! Herbert Div.; between the Orange and Vaal Rivers, 4500 ft., Bolus, 1828! Vaal River Plains. Bowker, 5! Dutoits Pan, near Kimberley, Tuck! Orange River Colony, Hutton! Bechuanaland; Batlapin Territory, Holub ! : Imperfectly known species. 7. H. Burmanni (Roem. & Schult. Syst. iv. 736) ; stem shrubby ; leaves linear, repand, villous; cymes spicate, lateral, in pairs. DC. Prod, ix. 549. H.tomentosum, Burm. fil. Prod. Fl. Cap. 4, not of Potr. Soutn AFrica: without locality, or name of collector. 8. H. capense (Lehm. in Act. Soc. Nat. Sc. Hal. iii. ii, 13); stem herbaceous, erect, branched; leaves ovate-rotundate, quite entire, plicate, strigose above, subtomentose beneath; cymes spicate, p’dunculate, solitary or in pairs; calyx 5-toothed, deciduous with _ enclosing the 4 nutlets. ZLehm. Pl. Asper. 50; DC. Prod. ix. 534, SoutH Argica: without locality, Thunberg ! H. capense, Thunb. Fl. Cap. 160, is stated by De Candolle to be probably a different plant with shrubby stem and opposite leaves. V. TRICHODESMA, R. Br. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, enlarged in fruit, angled, winged or auricled at the base; lobes imbricate. Corolla-tube widely cylindrical or 5-sided ; throat naked or slightly closed by the intrusion of the sinuses ; lobes 5, shortly ovate or lanceolate, often long acuminate, contorted, overlapping to the left. Stamens 5, exserted; filaments very short, broad, as well as the connective usually hairy on the back; anthers oblong-linear, long acuminate, erect, conniving. Ovary 4-lobed ; lobes distinct, flat or slightly convex at the base; style subterminal, filiform; stigma small ; ovules subhorizontal, fixed to the inner angle of the cell. Nutlets 4, wide, depressed, tuberculate or almost smooth on the back, with or without a raised Trichodesma. | BORAGINER (Wright). 11 entire, pectinate or glochidiate margin, lower face almost entirely adnate to the torus. Seeds suborbicular or obovate ; embryo straight or slightly curved ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle short. Erect herbs, usually hispid; leaves opposite or alternate, quite entire ; cymes racemose, terminal, unilateral, simple or bifid,usually bracteate. Disrais. Species about 10, in the tropics and subtropics of Asia, Africa, and Australia. Calyx-lobes cordate at the base; corolla much exserted : Leaves ovate-lanceolate ris wai ve ... (1) physaloides. Leaves linear-lancevlate sb} ise be. ... (2) angustifolium. Calyx-lobes not cordate at the base; corolla scarcely exserted ... ae Res ve soe ie ... (3) africanum. 1, T. physaloides (A.DC. in DC. Prod. x. 173); stems annual from a perennial fleshy rootstock, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous; leaves usually opposite, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with flat white discs on both surfaces, some of which bear hairs; panicle many- flowered ; pedicels up to 9 lin. long; calyx inflated, 6 lin. long; lobes acuminate, cordate at the base, purple; corolla pure white (McLea), 1 in. diam.; lobes 6 lin. broad, shortly acuminate; anthers villous on the back; terminal awn longer than the anther-cells; nutlets smooth on the ventral side, margins inflexed and papillose-denticu- late. T.sp., Drége in Linnea, xx. 197. Friedrichsthalia physaloides, Fenzl, in Endl. Nov. Stirp. Decad. i. 53. KatAHARI REGION : Transvaal; near Pretoria, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3107! Aapies River, Burke! Northern slopes of Magalies Berg, 6000-7000 ft., Zeyher, 1249! Burke, 98! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock ? Also in tropical Africa. 2. T. angustifolium (Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 26, t. 40); stem erect, 12-18 in. high, branched, terete, scabrid ; leaves 13-3 in. long, 1-3 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, subsessile, acute at both ends, densely seabrid on both sides with white bulbous-based hairs; peduncles extra-axillary, 1-flowered, 1 in. long, slender, with adpressed hairs; calyx 6 lin. long, 12 by 8 lin. in fruit, cordate, acuminate, seabrid outside ; corolla blue (Nelson); tube 4 lin. long; lobes 4 lin. long, 21 lin. broad, cordate, long acuminate, reflexed; anthers sessile, lanceolate, hairy on the back, terminal appendage slender, slightly shorter than the anther-cell ; style 6 lin. long, subulate, glabrons ; nutlets spiny on the dorsal side, granular on the ventral. Tricho- desma sp., Drége in Linnea, xx. 197. WesteRN ReEGIon: Great Namaqualand; Scap River, Schinz, 758! Katanari Reeion: Orange River Colony; Vet River, Burke! Rhenoster River, 7000-8000 ft., Sanderson, 127! near Boshof, Barber ! Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, Barrett-Hamilton ! Transvaal; near Pretoria, Wilms, 943! Tuck in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 813! and in Herb. MacOwan, 2213! near Potches- troom, Roe in Herb. Bolus, 5713! Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1251! Burke, 60! 313! Klip Spruit, beyond the Maquasi Hills, Nelson, 236! 3. T. africanum (R. Br. Prodr. 496); stem erect, branched, 1 ft. or more high, furnished with rigid white hairs springing from a 12 BORAGINEE (Wright). [ Trichodesma. discoid base ; leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, acute, up to 2} by 1 in., bearing hairs like the stem, lower petioled, upper sessile ; panicle many-flowered ; pedicels up to 6 lin. long, slender, covered (like the outside of the calyx) with stiff white hairs 1 lin. long; ealyx-lobes lanceolate, erect, 3-4 lin. long at flowering time; corolla scarcely exserted from the calyx, blue, throat yellow with 5 purple spots ; lobes rounded, produced into an apiculus % lin. long; anthers lanceo- late, awn nearly as long as the eclls; style filiform, glabrous; nutlets 4, ovoid, seabrid, rugulose on the ventral side, margin raised, white and spiny. Lehm. Pl. Asper.195; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 69, 753; Drége, Ziret Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 93; A.DC. in DO. Prod. x. 173; Drége in Linnea, xx.197. Borago africana, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2,197; Burm. Prodr. 4; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 161. B. verrucosa, Forsk. Fl, Aiyypt.-Arab. 41; Sab. Hort. Rom. 2, t. 22. Borraginoides aculeata, Moench, Meth.516. Pollichia africana, Medik. Beobacht. 248. CrntTRAL ReGioN : Calvinia Div. ; by streams in the Karroo below Bockland (Bokkeveld) Thunberg. Ceres Div.; at Yuk River, near Yuk River Hoogte, Burchell, 1264 ! Western Recion: Little Namaqualand ; between Konsies (Buffels) River and Silver Fontein, 2000 ft., Drége! between Verleptpram and the mouth of the Orange River, under 1G00 ft., Drege! near Ookiep, 3200 £t., Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 641 ! Kaxanari REGION: Orange River Colony; neur the Vaal River, 5000 ft., Zeyher, 1239! Also in tropical Africa. VI. TYSONTA, Bolus. _ Calyx 5-partite, persistent but scareely enlarging ; lobes lanceolate. Corolla rotate; tube with 5 erect exserted guadrate-oblong retuse scales at its throat and about 10 small swellings at its very base; lobes 5, subpatent, as long as the tube, Stamens 5, exserted; filaments filiform above, larger and complanate at the base ; anthers oblong, obtuse, versatile. Ovary seated on a thick semiglobose torus indistinctly 4-lobed at the apex, 4-eelled ; style terminal, tindivided: filiform, about as long as the stamens; stigma small, capitate ; ovule fixed to the inner angle of the cell, horizontal. Nutlets 1. much laterally compressed, one often larger and produced at its ‘margin into a wide wavy cartilaginous crenate wing, the others smaller and more narrowly winged. Seed erect, exalbuminous, ovate, compressed ; testa conspicuously veined; cotyledons cuneate-obovate, plano- convex ; radicle very short. DistRiB. Species 1, endemic. 1. T. africana (Bolus in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1942): a] perennial ?, about 3 ft. high; stem erect, ae. Soden wen leaves ovate, acute, 8 by 6 in., with a petiole 6 in. long, upper pM is late, acuminate, 3} by } in., sessile, all narrowed at the base and minutely scabrid on both sides; nerves sunk above prominent beneath ; cymes many in a lax terminal panicle 18 in, long, 5-9 in. Tysonia. | BORAGINER (Wright). 13 wide; bracts few, linear; bracteoles 0; calyx 2 lin. long, 3 lin. in diam. ; corolla yellowish (7Zyson) or white (Wood); tube 2-3 lin. long, with about 20 parallel veins; lobes with reticulate veins; scales in throat pubescent; basal scales with two diverging horns; largest nutlet about 4 lin. in diam. Eastern Reaion: Griqualand East; by rivulets near Clydesitale, 3000 ft., Tyson, 2117! Natal; at the foot of the Drakensburg, Wood, 3557 ! VII. CYNOGLOSSUM, Linn. Calyx 5-partite, scarcely enlarged in fruit, patent or reflexed. Corolla: tube short, throat closed with obtuse or arched scales ; lobes 5, imbricate, obtuse, patent. Stamens 5, fixed in the corolla- tube, included; filaments short; anthers ovoid or shortly oblong, obtuse. Ovary with 4 distinct lobes from an almost flat receptacle ; style short or rather long ; stigma small, flat or subcapitate; ovules horizontal, fixed to the central angle of the cell. Nutlets 4, de- pressed, adnate by the inner half of or the whole lower surface to the convex or shortly conical receptacle, scarcely produced at the apex, rounded or almost saceate below their insertion, rather convex or flat on the dorsal side or surrounded by an elevated margin, glochidiate. Seeds straight or slightly curved; cotyledons wide, flat ; radicle short. Perennial or biennial herbs, often tall, slightly branched, canescent, villous or almost woolly ; leaves alternate, the radicle often long petioled ; racemes usually elongate, rarely bracteate, sparingly branched or loosely paniculate; flowers pedicelled or subsessile, blue or violet with distinct veins, rarely white; pedicels usually recurved in fruit; style usually persistent, rigid and sometimes split to the base into lacinize deciduous with the nutlets. Disrris. Species about 60, in the temperate and subtropical regions of both hemispheres, rare on the mountains in the tropics. Pedicels long in fruit; leaves chiefly radical ies ..» (1) enerve. Pedicels short in fruit; leaves both radical and cauline ... (2) micranthum. 1. C. enerve (Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 1840, 259); stem erect, 1-2 ft. high, simple, pilose; leaves oblanceolate, obtuse or rarely acute, with short hairs, those on the underside with con- spicuous bulbous-bases; panicle terminal, lax; pedicels elongating to 1 in. and recurving in fruit ; calyx 1 lin. long, hairy outside ; lobes ovate ; corolla blue or red; tube 1 lin. Jong; lobes + lin. long, obtuse, with a very prominent thick scale at their base; nutlets entirely covered with glochidiate spines. Hchinospermum enerve, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 47, 131, 137, 151. Coast Recion: Cape Div.; between Wynberg Butts and Klassenbosch, Wolley Dod, 2459! Riversdale Div.; Great Vals River, Burchell, 6543! by the Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6810! Uitenhage Div.; near Uitenhage, Burchell, 4252! Albany Div.; between Assegai Bosch and Rautenbachs Drift, Burchell, 4187! Bathurst Div.; Kaffir Drift Military Post, Burchell, 3768! Cathcart Div. ; Blesbok Flats, 3000-4000 ft , Drége ! CentraL ReEGion: Somerset Div.; near Somerset East, Bowker! Bosch Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1211! 14 BORAGINER (Wright). —§ [Cynoglossum. Katawart Region: Orange River Colony; Cooper, 889! Transvaal; Aapies River, Burke / dry veldt, Johannesburg district, Ommanney ! Eastern Region: Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 257! Pondoland ; between St. John’s River and Umtsikaba River, 1000-2000 ft., Drége! Natal ; Inanda, Wood, 258! Polela, 5000-6000 ft., Wood, 4577! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1473! 2. C. micranthum (Desf. Tab. ed. 1, 1804, 220); stem erect, stout, much branched in the upper part, terete, pilose ; branches adpressed-canescent ; leaves lanceolate, acute, variable in size but usually about 3 in. by 9 lin., attenuate below, obscurely toothed, villous on both surfaces, 3-nerved ; cymes spicate, up to 6 in. long, ebracteate ; calyx-lobes ovate ; corolla scarcely longer than the calyx, white suffused with blue, purplish at the throat; nutlets about 1 lin. long, roundish, ovoid, spiny all over. Poir. Suppl. ii. 481; DC. Prod. x. 149. C. lanceolatum, B? hirsutum, DC. Prod. x. 155. C. hirsutum, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 161, not of Jacq. C. lanceo- latum, Lehm. Pl. Asper. 145. Echinospermum cynoglossoides, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 137, not of Lehm. E. paniculatum, E. Meyer, l.c., 134, 145, 158. Coast ReGion: Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, under 1000 ft., Dréze. Enon, at Olyvonhout Kloof and Olifants Kloof, under 1000 ft., Drege ! CENTRAL REGION: Somerset Div. ; on Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3234! between the Zuurberg Range and Klein Bruintjes Hoogte, 2000-2500 ft., Dréye. Katauarrt ReGion: Orange River Colony, Cooper, 890! Basutoland, Cooper, 749! Transvaal; north of Blauw Bank, Nelson, 266! Pretoria, at Aapies Poort, Rehmann, 4123! Mac Mac, Mudd! Lydenburg, Wilms, 1008! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5943! : KASTERN ReGion: Transkei; near the Gekau (Gcua or Geun) River, under 1000 ft., Drége !? Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 857! Natal; Umlazi River, under 500 ft., Dréye! Inanda, Wood, 370! Mooi River, Wood, 4061! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 531! Imperfectly known species. ial 3. C. leptostachyum (DC, Prod. x. 152); stem erect, paniculately branched, with adpressed villous pubescence ; leaves with adpressed pubescence, the lower oval-lanceolate attenuate into a petiole, the © upper linear-lanceolate, scarcely attenuate at the base ; cymes spicate, geminate at the ends of remote branches, slender, ebracteate ; pedi- cels at length recurved, as long as the calyx ; corolla scarcely longer than the calyx; nutlets somewhat convex, with glochidiate spines on all sides. Sour Arrica: without locality, Drége, 4889 (ex De Candolle). 4. C. hispidum (Thunb, Prodr. 34) ; herbaceous, 1 ft. high, erect, branched above, hispid with reflexed sete; branches alternate, similar to the stem ; subradical leaves sessile, oblong, obtuse, entire, ‘glabrous but hispid on both surfaces with white bristle-bearing papille,” 3 in. long; cauline leaves few, alternate, smaller than the subradical, the uppermost lanceolate, acute; flowers panicled, rufescent, minute; peduncle, pedicels and calyx setose; stamens shorter than the corolla. Schrad. Newes Journ. i. iv. 46; Lehm. Pl. Asper. 143; DC. Prod. x. 155, Cynoglossum. | BORAGINER (Wright). 15 Coast Rreeion : Uniondale Div. ; Langekloof, Thunberg ! De Candolle suggests that this may be the same as C. enerve, Turcz. VIII. ECHINOSPERMUM, Swartz. Calyx 5-partite; lobes ovate or narrow. Corolla: tube short, throat clothed inside with 5 short or arching scales; lobes 5, imbricate, obtuse, patent. Stamens 5, fixed to the corolla-tube, included; filaments very short; anthers ovate-oblong, obtuse. Ovary ovoid, shortly 4-lobed ; style between the lobes, short; stigma subeapitate; ovule laterally fixed. Nuwtlets 4, erect, keeled on the inner face and often bordered by one or more rows of glochidiate prickles, adnate by their inner margins to a central column. Seeds straight ; cotyledons plano-convex, undivided. Annual or perennial herbs, canescent, villous or glabrescent, usually erect, virgate or much branched; leaves alternate, usually narrow; flowers small, sessile or pedicelled along elongated branches; pedicels sometimes thickened in fruit ; racemes bracteate, or naked towards the apex. Distris. Species about 50, chiefly in the temperate regions of Europeand Asia, a few in North America and Australia, Fruit-spines 2-seriate ve ee ite see «. (1) Lappula. Fruit-spines 1-seriate : Flowers sessile Py sis ies soe ... (2) capense. Flowers shortly pedicelled .., és a -« (3) eynoglossoides. 1. E. Lappula (Lehm. Pl. Asper. 121); stem erect, branched above, hirsute with bulbous-based hairs; leaves lanceolate, pilose ; racemes at length elongate, unilateral ; pedicels shorter than the calyx, erect in fruit; lower bracts as long as the calyx; calyx-lobes linear-oblong, spreading in fruit; corolla blue, a little longer than the ealyx; limb short; nutlets with two rows of glochidiate spines on the margins, disk and sides tuberculate. #. Lappula, var. squarrosa, Lehm. Pl. Asper. 122; DC. Prod. x. 136. E. cynoglos- soides, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 49, 137, not of Lehm. E. squarrosa, Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs, 345, Mypsotis Lappula, Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 1,131. M. squarrosa, Retz. Obs. ii. 9. : : SourH AFRIcA: without locality, Boivin ! Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div.; on the hills by Port Elizabeth and by the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 473! Albany Div.; Fish River Heights, Hutton! Queenstown Div.; near Queenstown, Cooper, 231! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 2800 ! Centrat REeGIon: Somerset Div.; western side of the Great Fish River, Burchell, 3252! Bosch Berg, 2800-3000 ft., MacOwan, 1881! between the Zuur- berg Range and Klein Bruintjes Hoogte, 2000-2500 ft., Drége! Graaff Reinet Div.; Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., Bolus, 273 ! 274! Albert Div.; Stormberg Spruit, 5000 fc., Drége ! Katanari Recion: Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Griqua Town, Burchell, 1933 ! 1933/1! Asbestos Mountains, by the Kloof Village, Burchell, 1688! Orange River Colony; Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, Barrett-Hamilton! Transvaal ; Doorn Place, Upper Molappo River, Holub! EastEkNn Region: Natal, Cooper, 2801! 2. E. capense (DC. Prod. x. 138) ; stem erect, branched; leaves 1 BoRAGINER (Wright). [Hchinospermum. linear, long hirsute ; flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate ; calyx- lobes linear, as long as the corolla-tube, at length patent ; nutlets slightly longer than the calyx; spines l-seriate, united at the very base, glochidiate at the apex, crested on the keeled back. Vars. ~ elatius and suffrutescens, DC. Prod. x. 138, LE. sp., Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 54. Sout AFRICA: without locality, Drége, 9356b, 9356e (ex De Candolle). Coast Region: Swellendam Div.; Plains at Storms Vlei, 500 ft., Galpia, 4343 ! CENTRAL ReGion: Carnarvon Div. ; at Buffels Bout, Burchell, 1592! Ceres Div.; at Ongeluks River, Burchell, 1225! Middleburg Div.; Sneeuw Berg Range, between Compass Berg and Rhenoster Berg, Drége, 9356a (ex De Candoile). KaLanaRI Recon : Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Asbestos Mountains, at the Kloof Village, Burchell, 1669! d 3. E. cynoglossoides (Lehm. Pl. Asper. 131, not of E. Meyer) ; stem erect, sufiruticose, 6 in. to 2 ft. high, hirsute ; leaves lanceolate, obtuse, hispid with bulbous-based hairs, the lower 14 in. long, 2: lin. wide, the upper getting gradually smaller; racemes panicled towards the end of the stem; pedicels short; calyx deeply 5-partite, hispid ; lobes lanceolate, acute, spreading in fruit; nutlets 4, ovoid- trigonous, verrucose; spines 1-seriate, radiating, glochidiate, com- pressed and united at the base. DC. Prod. x. 138. Myosotis cynoglossoides, Lam. Ill, i. 396. Cynoglossum echinatum, Thunb. in Schrad. Neues Journ. i. iii. 48, Prodr. 34, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. ae Rochelia cynoglossoides, Roem. § Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 111, CENTRAL Rx@ron: Sutherland Div.; Roggeveld, Thunberg. IX. ANCHUSA, Linn. Calyx more or less deeply 5-lobed; lobes usually narrow, a little enlarged in fruit. Corolla: tube straight, cylindrical, short or of medium length ; throat equal or slightly enlarged, closed with obtuse or arching papillose scales; lobes 5, imbricate, obtuse, patent. Stamens 5, fixed to the middle of the corolla-tube, included ; filaments short; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary of 4 distinct lobes, seated on a small flat disk. Nutlets 4, erect, oblique or incurved, on a flat disk, rugose; areole wide, basal or pseudo-lateral, surrounded by a hardened (often wrinkled) ring, which is uniform or thickened on the inner side. Seeds straight; cotyledons ovate, flat. : Annual or perennial herbs, hispid, vi istly ; : dichotomous © ene siaetaaw dvicwea) : Saruianl cee fae phe paniculate, branches long ; flowers blue, violet or white, rarely yellowish, at first crowded, finally distant, in the axils of bracts o : A ag sometimes absent), ee of the upper leaves (bracts Distris. Species about 30, in Harope, Western Asia, and Nort ica. Stem sparingly setose (or glabroas below) = uate - h ay ae whem conspicuously snd waney Biesate ee ee [apne ee emeereerneriesremsipsaciienemeennies Anchusa. | BORAGINES (Wright). 17 1, A. riparia (DC. Prod. x. 43); herbaceous, 1-2 ft. high; stem erect, simple or sparingly branched, bearing scattered setee; lower leaves up to 6 in. long and 5 lin. wide, oblanceolate, long attenuate downwards, upper linear-lanceolate, up to 3 in. long and 4 lin. wide, sessile, acute or subobtuse, all with white bulbous-based hairs above, villous below ; eymes racemose, usually forked, arranged in a terminal panicle up to 1 ft. long; bracts similar to the upper leaves but smaller ; pedicels 1 lin. long; calyx 2 lin. long, campanulate, hispid ; lobes 5, short, rounded; corolla 3 lin. long ; scales in throat ciliate ; nutlets rugose, granular. A. officinalis, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 162, not of Linn. A. Dregei, A.DC. in DC. Prod. x. 44. Lycopsis longifolia, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, SoutH Arrica: without locality, Pappe ! Coast Region: Albany Div.; near Bothas Berg, 1800-2000 ft., MacOwan, 1198! Assegai Bosch, Burke! and without precise locality, Bowker! Queens- town Diyv.; Shiloh, Baur, 950! CENTRAL ReGion: Graaff Reinet Div. ; near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 126! Compass Berg, Shaw! Cradock Div.; near Cradock, Burke! Ovoper, 549! WestTeERn Reeion: Little Namaqualand; Kamies Bergen, Drége ! Karanart Recion: Griqualand West; at Griqna Town, Burchell, 1849! between Kuruman and the Vaal River, Cruikshank in Herb. Bolus, 2547 ! EastERN Reaion: Tembuland? Engotini, Baur, 23! ‘g 2. A. capensis (Thunb. Prodr. 34); stem herbaceous, suleate, erect, 1-2 ft. high, hirsute, usually unbranched; lower leaves oblanceolate, up to 5 in. long and 4 lin. broad, upper smaller and not narrowed below, hirsute with bulbous-based hairs; panicles terminal, formed of alternate racemose cymes; calyx 1} lin. long, hispid outside ; lobes 5, obtuse; corolla-tube about as long as the calyx; nutlets rugose, rather granular. #7. Cap. ed. Schult. 163; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 336; Drége, Zwet Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 90; Bot. Mag. t. 1822; DO. Prod. x. 45. Anchusa sp., Drege, l.c. 62. Coast Ructon: Malmesbury Div. ; Zwartland and Saldanha Bay, Thunberg. Swellendam Div.; Swellendam, Pappe! Zeyher! on the downs near the strand of Cape Recife, Zeyher, 28! 1246b ! Queenstown Div.; Hangklip Mountain, 6300 ft., Galpin, 1616! Crentrat Recion: Carnarvon Diy.; between Carnarvon and Elands Valley, Burchell, 1579! Beaufort West Div. ; between Beaufort West and Rhenoster Kop, 2500-3000 ft., Drége, 7856b ! a é ; Western Reeion: Little Namaqualand; Silver Fontein, near Ookiep, 2000 ft., Drége! Imperfectly known species. 3. A. africana (Burm. fil. Prod. Cap. 4); stem shrubby, villous ; leaves lanceolate, tomentose beneath. SoutH Argica: without locality or collector’s name. 4. Stomotechium papillosum (Lehm. Pl. Asper. 396); stem shrubby, angular, smooth below, scabrid above ; branches alternate, VOL, IV.—SECT, I. ¢ 18 BORAGINEX (Wright). [ Anchusa. subdistichous, scabrid ; leaves alternate, almost amplexicaul, linear- lanceolate, obtuse, entire, rigid, hispid when young, at length scabrid with white papille especially on the upper surface ; cymes spicate, in racemose panicles terminal on the branches, erect, straight ; bracts ovate, acute; flowers close together, secund, small; ealyx 5-fid, 5-angled, hispid, persistent ; lobes regular, ovate, acute, erect ; corolla regular; tube cylindrical ; lobes 5, obovate, rounded at the apex, erect ; throat closed by five subrotundate fleshy scales, muricate on the back; stamens 5; filaments inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube, very short; anthers included, oblong, acuminate, 2-celled; style filiform nearly as long as the _ corolla-tube ; stigma obtuse, simple; nutlets 4, small, subrotundate, rugose, perforated at the base. Buek in Linnea, xi. 131 ; DC. Prod, x. 41; Harvey, Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 2,299; Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 856, in obs. Stomatotechium, Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. ix. 31. Echium paniculatum, var., Thunb. ee DC. Prod. x. 41. Sour AFRica: without locality, Thunberg. A very doubtful plant, which has been collected only once and not seen by any author since Lehmann, Bentham (l.c.) suggests its affinity to be with Anchusa capensis, Thunb. X. MYOSOTIS, Linn. Calyx shortly or deeply 5-lobed; lobes narrow, slightly enlarged in fruit. Corolla: tube short; throat gibbous or almost closed by — scales or naked; lobes 5, contorted to the right, obtuse, patent. Stamens 5, fixed to the corolla-tube, included or exserted; filaments filiform; anthers ovate or oblong, obtuse; connective apiculate or blunt. Ovary with 4 separate lobes on a flat disk, erect; style filiform; stigma small, entire, or slightly 2-loMéd; ovule erect. Nutlets 4, distinet, ovoid, erect, hard, shining, fixed to a small flat or slightly convex disk; areole small. Seed straight ; cotyledons ovate, flat or plano-convex. Annual or perennial, often weak, herbs, villous or more rarely glabrous ; leaves alternate ; cymes racemose, simple or branched, ebracteate or more rarely witha few leafy bracts at the base ; flowers blue, red or white, ee Species about 40, widely spread in the temperate regions of the Old orld. Leaves broadly linear ; calyx-lobes 1-nerved ... Leaves not linear ; calyx-lobes 3-nerved : Stem glabrous i ia (1) graminifolia. Pec a oad oes ss» (2) Galpinii. Hairs on calyx hooked : Anthers not apiculate (3) sylvatica. _Anthers acutely apiculate |... (4) intermedia. Hairs on calyx not hooked . “ +» (5) afropalustris. 7 1M. graminifolia (DC. Prod. x. 110); stem erect, almost simple, about 1 ft. high, pilose ; leaves broadly linear, obtuse, the lower attenuate below and 2 in. by 3 lin., scabrid with rather long bulbous-based hairs on the upper surface and margins, almost glabrous below; cymes racemose, elongate ; pedicels at length 2 lin. Myposotis.] BORAGINEE (Wright). 19 long ; calyx 5-lobed to below the middle, hirsute outside, 1 lin. long ; lobes obtuse, 1-nerved ; corolla blue; tube slightly longer than the ealyx ; lobes suborbicular; anthers oblong; style slightly shorter than the corolla-tube; nutlets white. M.sp., Drége, Zwei Pflanzen- geogr. Documente, 52, 53. " CentRAL Reaion: Aliwal North Div. ; Witte Bergen, 6000-7000 ft., Drege, 842! [SA 2. M. Galpinii (C. H. Wright); stem glabrous, purplish-black when dry ; leaves elliptic, attenuate below into a pseudo-petiole 3 in, long, sheathing at the base and ciliate along the margin; blade scabrid with bulbous-based hairs above and near the apex beneath, elsewhere glabrous; cymes pseudo-terminal ; peduncle, rhaehis and outside of calyx hirsute; calyx-lobes % lin. long, linear, 3-nerved ; corolla blue; tube 1 lin. long, scaly in the throat; lobes elliptic- oblong; anthers oblong, inserted near the mouth of the corolla- tube; style about as long as the corolla-tube; nutlets lenticular, smooth. Centrat Reaion: Barkly East Div.; mountain kloof at Rhodes, 6200 ft., Galpin, 2329! 3. M. sylvatica (Hoffm. Deutschl. Fl. ed. i. 85) ; stem hirsute, hairs adpressed when young, spreading and bulbous-based when old; leaves with bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces, the lower elliptic, 2 in. by 9 lin., attenuate into a petiole 2 in. long, obtuse, the upper narrowly lanceolate, sessile, more or less acute ; cymes scorpioid, at length racemose, usually forked ; calyx up to 2 lin. long in fruit, hairs hooked ;' teeth lanceolate, rather unequal, 3-nerved; corolla 3 Tin. diam., bright blue, yellow in the throat ; tube slightly longer than the calyx ; lobes suborbicular; anthers oblong; style filiform, included. Reichbd. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 13822; Sturm, Deutsch. FI. ii. 42; Engl. Bot. ed. i, t. 2630, ed. iii. t. 1107; DC. Prod, x. 107. M. arvensis, var. sylvatica, Pers. Syn. i. 156. M. graminifolia, var, trinervia, A.DC. in DC. Prod. x. 110. Coast Reeton: Knysna Div.; Ruigte Vallei, under 100 ft., Drége, 7841a! near Melville, Burchell, 5888! Queenstown Div.; mountains near Queenstown, 5800-6500 ft., Galpin, 1617! CENTRAL Recion: Graaff Reinet Div.; at Wagenpads Berg, Burchell, 2824! Oude Berg, near Graaff Reinet, 4500 ft., Bolus, 157 ! sat Katanari ReGIon: Orange River Colony ; Besters Vlei, near Witzies Hoek, 5400 ft., Bolus, 8214! Transvaal ?, Wilms! Eastern Reqion: Natal; by streams on the Drakensberg, 6000-7000 ft., Evans, 396a ! Also in Europe, North and West Asia and the Canary Islands, Vi 4. M. intermedia (Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 164); stem ‘branched, hirsute, about 1 ft. high; leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, the lower much tapering downwards, the upper sessile, up to 2 in. long and 5 lin, broad, pilose on both surfaces ; cymes racemose ; pedicels 3 lin. long in “ad calyx 1 lin, long in flower, © 20 BORAGINEE (Wright). [Myosotis. almost 2 lin. long in fruit, with spreading uncinate hairs outside ; lobes subulate, 3-nerved ; corolla-tube slightly longer than the calyx, with 5 conspicuous brown bilobed appendages in the throat; lobes rounded; stamens inserted halfway up the corolla-tube; anthers ovoid, apiculate ; style 3 as long as the corolla-tube; nutlets smooth, convex on the back, keeled on the ventral side. Koch, Syn. 505; DC. Prod. x. 108. M. sp., Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 87, 117. Coast Reaton: Malmesbury Div.; Groenekloof, Zcklon ! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 7840a! Caledon Div.; near the Hot-spring, near Caledon, Bolus, 7830! rge Div. ; Outeniqua Mountains, 2000-3000 ft., Drége, 7840b! ENTRAL REGION: Somerset Div. ; Somerset East, Bowker ! Also in Europe, the Orient and North Asia. 5. M. afropalustris (C. H. Wright); stem erect, about 2 ft. high, hispid with deflexed hairs; lower leaves elliptic-lanceolate, much attenuate below, upper ovate, rounded at the base, hispid with usually bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces; inflorescence much- branched ; calyx 1-14 lin. long, enlarging in fruit, with adpressed curved (but not hooked) hairs outside ; lobes lanceolate, 3-nerved ; corolla blue, 12 lin. in diam. ; tube about as long as the calyx; lobes shortly oblong or suborbicular, obtuse; throat-scales slightly bilobed, yellow, pubescent ; stamens inserted near the top of the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong; connective produced above into an obtuse appendage ; style as long as the eorolla-tube ; nutlets dorsally compressed, smooth. Var. 8, glabra (C. H. Wright); leaves glabrous beneath except near the Coast Reciow: Knysna Div. ; between Gouk i d of Groene Vallei, Burchell, 5611! ee ee CenTRaL Recion: Aliwal North Div.; on the Witte Bergen, Cooper, 641! Katanart Reeion: Var. 8, Orange River Colony ; Wittiontfaistins ‘locality, Cooper, 891! Basuto Land ; without precise locality, Cooper, 942! Eastern Reeion: Natal; Mooi River, in damp ground, 3800 ft., Wood, 3184! 3487! Var. 8, Pondoland; Faku’s Territory, Sutherland ? Natal 5 Greenwich Farm, Riet Vlei, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 2732 is : Imperfeetly known species. q ; 6. M. semiamplexicaulis (DC. Prod. x. 110) ; stem ereet, nearly . simple, patently, densely and minutely hirsute; leaves oblong, hirsute-pilose on both surfaces, the lower attenuate into a petiole, the upper semi-amplexicaul ; pedicels as long as the calyx ; calyx 5-lobed . beyond the middle, hirsute-canescent, a few of the hairs almost hooked ; eorolla-tube as long as the calyx. Coast REGION : Queenstown Div. ; . 78tlb! (ex De Candolle, wn Div.; Table Mountain, 6000-7000 ft., Drege, XI. LITHOSPERMUM, Linn. Calyx 5-partite, rarely 5-fid ; lobes linear. Coroll | e ; -fid ; ; a funnel-shaped or salver-shaped ; tube cylindrical, straight; throat usually winiargelig — Lithospermum.] Boracinea (Wright) 21 naked or gibbous within, or with 5 folds intruded from the outside ; lobes '5, imbricate, obtuse, patent. Stamens 5, fixed to the corolla- tube, included ; filaments short ; anthérs oblong, obtuse or with the connective very shortly produced. Ovary with 4 separate lobes on a flat disk’; style filiform or rather thick ; stigmas 2, terminal or over- topped by a short entire or bifid apiculus, very rarely annular beneath the terminal apiculus; ovule erect. Nutlets 4, or by abortion fewer, erect, ovoid or acuminate, usually stony, smooth or rugose, fixed by a flat or very slightly concave base to the disk ; areole flat, basal or slightly oblique. Seed straight ; cotyledons flat. Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs, roughly canescent or hispid; leaves alternate ; flowers white, yellow, blueish or violet, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, or the upper in leafy spikes, racemes or cymes, Distris. Species about 40, chiefly in the extra-tropical regions of the northern hemisphere, a few in western South America. Branches with patent hairs : Upper leaves narrowly lanceolate, under Lin. long... (1) papillosum. Upper leaves broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, over 1 in. long: Veins of leaves not prominent beneath : Leaves obtuse : Hairs on leaves bulbous-based oe .» (2) scabrum. Hairs on leaves not bulbous-based .., be ta affine. Leaves acute... we wii ss ... (4) hirsutum, Veins of leaves prominent beneath i ... (5) officinale. Branches with adpressed hairs : Perennials : Nutlets rugose : Calyx as long as the corolla-tube sti .. (6) cinereum. Calyx half as long as the corolla-tube te inornatum. Nutlets muricate bee cvs obs see .» (8) flexuosum, Nutlets smooth tee ity. tee Ste «» (9) diversifolium. Annuals: Leaves lanceolate; nutlets tuberculate —... bis oe arvense. Leaves obovate; nutlets granular-scabrid ... .». (11) incrassatum. 1 L. papillosum (Thunb. Prod. 34); stem herbaceous, slightly ‘ branched, slender, ascending, 6 in. high, hirsute; leaves sessile, the lower ovate-oblong, the upper lanceolate, 10 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, gradually getting smaller upwards, obtuse, villous, margins revolute ; racemes terminal, congested; calyx 2 lin. long, hispid especially outside ; lobes oblong, 3 lin. broad, subobtuse ; corolla white ; tube as long as the calyx; lobes elliptic, 1} lin. long ; anthers oblong, % lin. long; style cylindrical; nutlets rugose. Thunb. in Schrad, Neues Journ. i. iti. 44; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 161; Lehm. Pl. Asper. 329; Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeoyr. Documente, 47; DC. Prod. x. 74. Var. 8, ambiguum (DC. Prod. x. 74); stem erect, less hispid and racemes more congested than in the type. L. papillosum, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, ite a Kees SourH AFrica: without locality ; var. 8, Krebs. | E Coast Reeion: Alexandria Div. ; Zuurberg Range, 2000-3000 ft., Drége! Queenstown Div. ; mountain sides, Queenstown, 3600-3800 ft., Galpin, 1571! > Cathcart Div.; Goshen, Windvogel Berg, Baur, 948! British Kaffraria ; without. 22 BORAGINEE (Wright). [Lithospermum. precise locality, Cooper, 163 ! 357! 2°05! Var. 8, Catheart Div. ; Blesbok Flats near Windvogel Berg, 3000 ft., Drége ! Katanwari Recton : Orange River Colony ; Caledon River, Burke ! Eastern Reeion: Griqualand East; cultivated ground near Kokstad, 5000 ft., Tyson, 110! and in MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm, Aust.-Afr., 1323! 2. L. scabrum (Thunb, Prod, 34); stem herbaceous or slightly woody below, more or less branched, hirsute, up to 18 in. high ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, the lower attenuate below, hirsute with bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces, variable in size but usually about 18 by 4 lin.; racemes terminal ; bracts leafy ; pedicels 1 lin. long; calyx-lobes lanceolate, obtuse, with bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces; corolla white ; tube scarcely longer than the calyx; lobes obovate-rotundate, undulate ; style exserted ; nutlets 1} lin. long, ovoid, shining white, smooth. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 160; Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 61, 62; Lehm. Pl. Asper. ii. 309 ; DC. Prod. x. 77. Sours Arica: without locality, Mund! Coast Region: Alexandria Div.; Zuur Berg, Cooper, 2796 ! Centra Reeion: Beaufort West Div. ; Nieuwveld Mountains, near Beau- on West, Drége! Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 3000-4000 ft., ege? KataAwARt Ree@ion ; Bechuanaland; near the source of the Kuruman River, Burchell, 2477! 3. L. affine (DC. Prod. x. 78); stem herbaceous, erect, branched, densely clothed with patent hairs; leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, acute at the base, flat, pilose on both surfaces; racemes terminal, few-flowered ; bracts leafy; calyx 2 lin. long; lobes linear, rather obtuse, hirsute; corolla white (Bowker), 5 lin. diam.; tube 31 lin. long; lobes rounded; style included; nutlets ovoid, acumi- nate, smooth, shining. LL. scabrum?, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwet Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 62. CrnTRAL ReEGiIon: Beaufort West Div.; Nieu i West, 4000 ft., Drége. Philipstown Did: alee atemae’ ver wicckak 2703! Graaff Reinet Div.; mountains near Graaff Reinet, 4300 ft,, Bolus, 696! Bowker ! . é / * 1. hirsutum (E, Meyer ex DC, Prod. x. 77); stem herbaceous / or slightly woody, erect, branched and hirsute with patent hairs above, 13 ft. high; leaves lanceolate, hirsute on both sides, the | lower rather obtuse at the apex and long attenuate at the base, the — upper rather acute, 23 in, long, 4:lin. broad; racemes terminal, often geminate, short; bracts leafy; calyx irregular, about 2 lin. long, densely hirsute ; lobes oblong, obtuse; corolla white; tube cylin- drieal, nearly twice as long as the calyx; lobes 12 lin. long, ovate- rotundate ; anthers oblong, 2 lin. long, inserted la- mouth ; style subulate ; nutlets Tek Abi near the corol Dre! Reaion: Little Namaqualand; near Lily Fontein, 4500 ft. n on imperfect specimen collected by Shaw (129) at Coie may belong. Lithospermum.| BORAGINEEX (Wright). 23 5. L. officinale (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 132) ; perennial ; stem herba- ceous, terete, erect, much branched above, scabrid; leaves broadly lanceolate, acute, scabrid on both sides, 21 in. long, 5 lin. broad; veins impressed above, prominent beneath ; racemes terminal on the stem and branches; bracts foliaceous; calyx 1+ lin. long, hirsute ; lobes linear, acute ; corolla searcely longer than the calyx, hairy out- side, white or yellowish; lobes rounded; stamens inserted near the corolla-throat; nutlets smooth, whitish, polished. DC. Prod. x. 76; Engl. Bot. ed. 3, ¢t. 1101. Katanart Reeion: Transvaal, Ivy Range, Moodies, 5000 ft., Thorneroft in Herb. Wood, 4851! HasteRNn Region: Natal ; South Downs, among rocks, Evans, 886! Thorncroft’s specimen is said to have pink flowers, Also in Europe, the Orient and North Asia, yf 6. L. cinereum (DC, Prod. x. 73); much branched from a woody base, 4-18 in. high, covered in all its parts with adpressed ashy- white pubescence ; stem erect, cylindrical; leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, attenuate at the base, upto Lin. by 2 lin. ; racemes terminal ; flowers sessile; bracts usually foliaceous; calyx-lobes linear-oblong, elongating in fruit ; corolla white; nutlets ovoid, shining, white, rugose, slightly keeled on the inner face, 1} lin. long. JZ. sp., Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 48. Souta Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1248 ! Coast Region: Queenstown Diy. ; between Table Mountain and Zwart Kei River, 4000-5000 ft., Drege, 7838! CENTRAL REGION: Somerset Div.; near Somerset East, 2800 ft., MacOwan, 1680! Graaff Reinet Div.; mountains near Graaff Reinet, Bowker, 14! Albert Div., Cooper, 780! Katauart Region: Griqualand West; at Griqua Town, Burchell, 1867! Orpen in Herb, Bolus, 5714! Orange River Colony; Wolve Kop, Burke! and without precise locality, Cooper, 2795! Transvaal; Jeppes Town Ridges, Johannesburg, 6000 ft., Gilfillan in Herb.- Galpin, 6234! Doorn Place Farm, Molappo River, Holub, 1972! : EasteRn RecGion: Natal; Blue Krantze, 3000 ft., Wood, 3579! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 195! 7. L. inornatum (DC. Prod. x. 73); a much branched plant about 8 in. high, woody at the base, covered all over with ashy adpressed pubescence; leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, cuneate at the base, 6 by 12 lin., the lower sometimes up to 2 in. by 5 lin, ; racemes terminal; flowers very shortly pedicelled ; bracts leafy ; calyx-lobes oblong, half as long as the corolla-tube; nutlets ovoid, subacute, slightly rugose, white or rufescent. L. sp., Drége, Zwet Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 57. CENTRAL Region: Richmond Div.; Winterveld, near Limoen Fontein and Great Table Mountain, near Richmond, 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 7837a, and Uit- vlugt, between Richmond and Brak Vallei River, 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 7837b (ex E. Meyer). Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., Bolus, 803! near Wagenpads Berg on the southern side, Burchell, 2836 ! 8. L. flexuosum (Lehm. Pl. Asper. ii. 333); stem decumbent, shrubby at the base, branched; branches suberect, flexuose, very 24 BORAGINEX (Wright). [ Lithospermum. slender, terete, hispidulous ; leaves alternate, sessile, ovate, lait. long, entire, scabrid above, hispid beneath; racemes terminal, branched ; flowers minute, very shortly pedicelled, distant; bracts lanceolate, acute; calyx hispid, 5-partite; corolla blue; tube as long as the calyx, throat naked; lobes ovate, obtuse ; anthers inserted in the middle of the tube ; style included ; nutlets 2, ovoid, triangular, muricate. DOC. Prod. x. 74. Cynoglossum muricatum, Thunb. in Schrad. Neues Journ. i. (1806), iii. 49; Prod. 34; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 162. Crentrat Region: Sutherland Div. ; Roggeveld, Thunberg. 9. L. diversifolium (DC. Prod. x. 77); stem herbaceous, erect, branched, minutely and adpressedly scabrid; lowest leaves patently and minutely hispid, oval-oblong, obtuse, flat and long attenuate into a petiole, middle leaves lanceolate, uppermost linear, sessile, revolute at the margins, adpressedly scabrid; racemes terminal, leafy ; pedicels short; corolla twice as long as the calyx; nutlets ovoid, scareely subacuminate, smooth, shining. LZ. hirsutum? E. Meyer, ex DC. I.c. CenTRAL Recion: Beaufort West Div. ? Nieuwveld, 3500 ft., Drdge. 10. L. arvense (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 182) ; stem erect, herbaceous, branched (especially near the base), seabrid; leaves lanceolate, the lower obtuse, the upper rather acute, adpressed seabrid on both sides ; racemes few-flowered, terminal ; calyx 21 lin. long in flower, up to 6 lin. long in fruit, hirsute; lobes linear-oblong, acute ; corolla slightly longer than the calyx; lobes very short, rounded ; stamens inserted in the lower part of the corolla-tube ; nutlets ovoid, tuberculate, rugose. FI. Dan. t. 456 ; Engl. Bot. ed.i. t.123 ; DC. Prod. x, 74; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 174. Coast ReGion: Ca iv.; Ki i corad kee Waren Pete, beige ga Wolley Dod, 3611! cultivated a Reeion: Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, KabanarI ReGion: Griqualand West; Asbestos Mountains, at the Kloof — Village, Burchell, 1686! Transvaal ; Matebe Valley, Holub! tes Eastern Recion: Natal; Gerrard, 230! Also in Europe, the Orient and North Africa. 11, L, incrassatum (Guss. Ind. Sem. Hort. Boccad. 1826, 6); stem herbaceous, erect, branched ; radical leaves obovate, cauline narrowly linear-spathulate, obtuse, as well as the stem adpressedly pubescent- strigose ; racemes elongate, leafy ; pedicels inerassate and obconical in fruit ; ealyx villous outside, elongated and somewhat spreading © in fruit; nutlets rugose, granular-scabrid. Guss. Prod. Sic. i, 217; Prod. x. 74. L, sp, Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docwmente, Western Recion: Li ; i i Ogle Oalidetps ices ccgeien ; near Lily Fontein, 4000-5000 ft., Also in South Europe, BORAGINER (Wright). 25 XII. LOBOSTEMON, Lehm. Calyx 5-partite ; segments lanceolate or linear. Corolla tubular funnel-shaped, naked inside the throat ; lobes 5, subequal, imbricate, rotundate, subpatent. Stamens 5, fixed in the corolla-tube, exserted or included ; filaments usually unequal, with a scale or transverse tuft of hairs at the base; anthers subglobose, ovate or oblong, obtuse. Ovary: lobes 4, distinct, on a flat or very slightly convex disk ; style filiform, undivided ; stigma small, subeapitate. Nutlets 4, distinet, erect, ovoid-trigonous or acuminate, granular-scabrid or rugose, fixed by flat basal areole. Seeds straight. Perennial herbs, subshrubs or shrubs, scabrid-canescent or hispid; leaves alternate, sessile, with simple or bulbous-based hairs, rarely almost glab- rous; cymes terminal, capitate, spicate or paniculate; flowers white, blue or purple. Distrib. Species about 50, some in tropical Africa. A genus gradually passing into Echiwm, with which it should perhaps be united. Section 1. Cymes not in a dense spicate panicle or head. Branches bristly; leaves bearing scattered bulbous-based bristles only tu in ... (1) sanguinens. Branches glabrous ; leaves bearing white acumi- nate tubercles only : Leaves 3-7 lin. broad : Stamens inserted in the middle of the corolla-tube ... aos ats «.. (2) glaucophyllus. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat... (3) levigatus. Leaves less than 3 lin. broad: Leaves smooth : Bulbous-based hairs on margins and midrib only : Leaves narrowly lanceolate, sub- falcate Por a ... (4) glaber. . Leaves oblong... Ka ... (5) collinus, Bulbous-based hairs on whole under surface ise ive we st Swartzii. Leaves rugose (7) acutissimus. Branches pubescent ; leaves hairy : Leaves at least 1 in. long, densely clothed on both surfaces with silky adpressed hairs (bulbous-bases inconspicuous) : Leaves 2 lin. or less wide : Hairs on back of leaves minutely bulbous-based ... ss ws Hairs on back of leaves not pulbous-based ... .... «... (9) Warmbii. Leaves at least 3 lin. wide: Leaves acute: Leaves oblong or ovate-lan- i ceolate ... oa ... (10) argenteus. Leaves oblanceolate : ; Stems pilose... ... (11) pilicaulis. Stemsstrigose.,. .., (12) montanus. (8) cinereus, 26 BORAGINEE (Wright). [ Lobostemon, Leaves obtuse : Leaves oblanceolate et i fruticosus. Leaves lanceolate ... ... (14) strigosus. Leaves obovate ... _ ... (15) obovatus. Leaves at least 1 in. long, with uniform : bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces... (16) trigonus. Leaves usually less than 1 in. long, marginal hairs conspicuously larger than the rest (sometimes almost spiny) : : Leaves obtuse ies diet ... (17) obtusifolius. Leaves acute: Leaves subspathulate Leaves linear-lanceolate : Corolla white ... av ... (19) paniculatus. Corolla blue... = +. (20) stachydeus. Leaves lanceolate ... se» +s. (21) eederiefolius. Leaves ovate-lanceolate ... w. (22) ferocissimus. Leaves oblong i iv ... (23) scaber, Leaves usually less than 1 in. long, glabrous on the upper surface, with uniform white bulbous-based hairs on the under surface and margins: 2 : Stamens about as long as the corolla... (24) paniculeformis, Stamens longer than the corolla : Leaves lanceolate ... ... os (25) elongatus. Leaves linear-lanceolate _... — 4x. (26) Verrucosus. Leaves at least 1 in. long, with bulbous-based hairs on the upper surface, long canescent on the lower ot noe Ws .«. (27) rosmarinifolius. Section 2. Cymes congested (at least for a time) into heads wider than the leaves. (Plants of twiggy habit). Leaves more or less ovate, not more than 3 times as long as broad : Leaves with numerous long bulbons-based hairs ee er ey eerep hy as. Leaves with scattered short bulbous-based hairs ooo tue aes pee” wee (29) ‘Giversifolius. Leaves with a mixture of simple and bulbous- based hairs ... Sia ... (30) spherocephalus. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, at least 4 times as long as broad : Hairs on leaves all conspicuously white bulbous-based : Calyx shorter than the corolla-tube .., (31) capitatus. Calyx as long as the corolla-tube ... (32) echioides. Hairs on leaves short, some bulbous-based ... 33) fastigiatus. Hairs on leaves not bulbous-based : Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube: Leaves linear-lanceolate .., eee Sie trichotomus. sche seu CAS) Seybaet Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong ... (35) nitidus. Leaves oblanceolate see ... (36) pubiflorus. Stamens inserted in the lower part of the corolla-tube . . : oe ove ... (37) curvifolius. Section 3. Cymes in a dense spicate panicle, Leaves with short white bulbous-based hairs cbiefly on the back and margins: Stem quite glabrous below «++ «ve (38) alopecuroidens. Stem nearly glabrous below ... S35 --» (39) latifolius, Stem hairy below: Radical leaves elliptic or oblong ... (40) caudatus, _— Lobostemon.] BORAGINEE (Wright). 27 Radical leaves ovate-lanceolate .». (41) ecklonianus. Radical leaves lanceolate bee ++ (42) splendens. Leaves with long silky hairs : Calyx with silky hairs nearly as long as the corolla one oy Live lone nik .-. (48) eriostachyus. Calyx with silky hairs distinctly shorter than the corolla : Spike 1 in. long; leaves acute, up to 8 lin. broad... wt vie ..» (44) Galpinii. Spike 14-24 in. long; leaves long acuminate, 5 lin. broad Ses ... (45) spicatus. Leaves with very short adpressed hairs ... (46) viridi-argenteus. 1. L. sanguineus (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 450) ; a robust shrub 4-65 ft. high, sparingly branched; branches densely papillose- scabrid, thick, densely leafy; leaves erecto-patent, ovate, acute, denticulate-scabrid on the margins and under surface of the midrib and also sometimes near the apex on the under surface, elsewhere glabrous, 14-2 in. long, 7-12 lin. wide; cymes racemose; flowers 2-seriate; bracts subimbricate, oblong, acute, denticulate-scabrid on the margins, papillose-scabrid below, glabrous above, as long as the calyx ; calyx-lobes unequal, linear or linear-oblong, acute, the wider very sparingly papillose scabrid outside, denticulate-ciliate on the margin, 9 lin. long; corolla blood-red; tube subcylindrical, very slenderly puberulous outside, scarcely longer than the calyx, with a ring of hairs inside near the base; lobes equal, subquadrate-rotun- date, very obtuse, margins undulate, conspicuously ciliate, 2 lin. in diam. ; stamens about as long as the corolla-tube; filaments adnate to the middle of the corolla-tube, glabrous ; anthers small; nutlets trigonous-ovoid, subaeute, papillose-scabrid, 23 lin. long. Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div. ; amongst rocks on hills near Elim, 650 ft., Schlechter, 7683 ! 2. L. glaucophyllus (Buek in Linnea, xi. 138) ; stem quite glab- rous; branches rather flexuose ; leaves sessile, rather fleshy, glaucous, oblong-lanceolate, acute, scabrid with white callosities on the margins and under side of the midrib ; calyx 33 lin. long ; lobes 3 lin. wide, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, ciliate-serrate, not conspicuously reticu- late; corolla 6 lin. long; lobes orbicular, imbricate at the base ; stamens inserted in the corolla-tube, unequal, the longest 5 lin. long and exserted ; filaments swollen and with a tuft of hairs at the base. DOC. Prod. x. 5. Echium glaucophyllum, Pers. Syn, i. 163; Jacq. Ic. t. 312; Andr. Rep. t. 165; Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 67. E. Swartzii, b, Drége, le. 180. E. glabrum, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 163, not of Vahl. LE. levigatum, Lam. Iil.i. 413, not of Linn. Bie, Arrica: without locality, Forbes! Alexander! Zeyher, 1243 rtly ! Ob Ait Region: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Zcklon, 237! MacGillivray, 572! MacOwan, 2684! Devils Peak, Wilms, 3401! Bolus, 3724! above Tokay Plantation, Wolley Dod, 1278! Wynberg, Burchell, 878! Wolley Dod, 410! Camps Bay, Burchell, 342! top of Elsie Peak, Wolley Dod, 2936! near Cape 28 BORAGINEE (Wright). [Lobostemon. Town, Bolus, 2898! Simons Bay, Wright! Milne, 139! Paarl Div. ; Paarl Mountain, aR Clanwilliam Div.; Blaauw Berg, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 8453! Drege, 7843b ! Modder Fontein, 800 ft., Schlechter, 7972! Koude Berg, 4000 ft., Nehlechter- 8764! Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; between Pedros Kloof and Lily Fontein, 3000-4000 ft., Drége. 3. L. levigatus (Buek in Linnea, xi. 139); stem simple, quite glabrous; leaves sessile, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, margin with distant white bulbous-based hairs; cymes terminal, racemose, com- pound, leafy; flowers pedieelled; bracteoles oblong, acute, 23 lin. long, with distant marginal bristles; calyx 3 lin. long, divided — nearly to the base into 5 oblong acute ciliate-dentate lobes ; corolla 6 lin. long ; tube campanulate ; lobes orbicular, imbricate at the base ; stamens inserted in the corolla-throat, declinate, exserted ; filaments swollen and bearing a tuft of hairs at the base. DC. Prod. x.5. LEchium levigatum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 199; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 163. LEchium Swartzii, Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 106, and in Linnea, xx. 196, not of Lehm. Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 9062! Shaw in Herb. Bolus, 5716! Drége! Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Thunberg ! Elands Fontein, 5300 ft., Schlechter, 10033! Cape Div. ; Ronde- bosch, Drége! CENTRAL Recion: Worcester Div.; Constable, 3000-3500 ft., Drége. 4. L, glaber (Buck in Linnea, xi. 137); shrubby ; branches glabrous, slightly angular when young; leaves narrowly lanceolate, sessile, seabrid on the margins, under side of the midrib and near the apex on the upper surface, glabrous elsewhere ; spikes terminal, few-flowered, leafy; calyx 3 lin. long, lobed nearly to the base ; lobes } lin. wide, oblong-lanceolate, ciliate, veins distinctly retieu- late; corolla 6 lin. long; tube campanulate ; lobes rounded, imbri- cate below ; stamens unequal, the longest exserted. DC. Prod.x. 5. L. Dregei, DC. in DC. Prod. x. 6. Echium faleatum, Lam. Til. i. 413. £. glabrum, Vahl, Symb. iii. 22; Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 70, not of Thunb. EH. Vahlii, Roem. § Schultes, Syst. Veg. iv. 14, 715. Sourn Arrica : without locality, Zeyher, 1243 partly ! Coast Recon: Clanwilliam Div.; Zekoe Vley, 500 ft., Schlechter, 8574! Malmesbury Div. ; Zwartland, fide Buek. Cape Div.; Table Mountain,, Ecklon ; Cape Flats, near Tyger Berg, Bolus, 5205! Wynberg Hill, Woll s bie Div. ; Ae ta Ie tt., Drege, 78430, BP tS HNTRAL Reeion: Clanwilliam Diy.; between Grasbe i - vals River, 2500-3000 ft., Drége ! oop Ms Western ReEcion: Little ; Kloof and Lily Toaeen: 3000-4000 os On, Devet ant ote ee 5. L. collinus (Schlechter MSS.); stem branched, hirsute — when young, glabrous when old; leaves oblong, 9 lin. long, loosely imbricate, obscurely warted on the margins and towards the apex, slightly ciliate when young; calyx 4 lin. long, adpressedly hairy ; lobes lanceolate ; corolla twice as long as the calyx ; longer stamens exserted, Coast Reaion : Bredasdorp Diy. ; Vogel Vley, 150 ft., Schlechter, 10483! Lobostemon.] soracines (Wright). ae 6. L. Swartzii (Buek in Linnea, xi. 137, not of Drége) ; a shrub; branches adpressedly hairy when young, glabrous when old; leaves linear-lanceolate, 1 in. long, 2 lin. broad, acute at both ends, glabrous or with adpressed hairs on the upper surface, and bulbous-based hairs on the margins and lower surface; cymes terminal, branched ; bracts lanceolate, acute, hispid; calyx-lobes linear, 14 lin. long, + lin. broad, adpressedly hairy ; corolla 6 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, 2 lobes much larger than the rest ; stamens inserted 12 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube, exserted; anthers short, oblong. DC. Prod. x. 5. Echium angustifolium, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 1, ii. 248; Schult. 163, not of Lam., nor Mill. nor Drége. EF. Swartzii, Lehm. Pl. Asper. 426, Ic. t. 16; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iv. 714. E. papillosum, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. i. ii. 8, not of Lehm. Soutu Arrica: without locality, Sieber! Thom! Zeyher, 1244! Coast Reeion: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Ecklon, 258! Ladies Mile near Alphen, Wolley Dod, 2018! near Wynberg, 50 ft., Bolus, 2897! Worcester ~ Div. ; Michell’s Pass, 1500 ft., Bolus, 2619! Grey! 7. L. acutissimus (Buek in Linnea, xi. 139); stem branched ; branches elongate, compressed and angular, quite glabrous; leaves sessile, erect, linear-lanceolate, very acute, slightly keeled, rugose on both sides with inconspicuous papillae; cymes few-flowered, in a terminal .panicle; flowers on short thick angular pedicels; calyx 5-partite, 5-angled, grey, subglabrous; lobes papillose, erect, acute ; corolla twice as long as the calyx; stamens exserted, fixed in the upper part of the corolla-tube. DC. in DC. Prod. x. 6. Coast Reecion: Tulbagh Div.; amongst shrubs in stony places on the mountains near Tulbagh (New) Kloof, Ecklon §° Zeyher. 8. L. cinereus (DC. Prod. x. 10); shrubby; branches slender, terete, with minute ashy pubescence; leaves linear-lanceolate, taper- ing towards both ends, 1 in. long, 2 lin. wide, with minute ashy pubeseence on both surfaces and bulbous-based hairs on the under ; cymes several at the apex of the branches, racemose ; calyx 3 lin. long, hairy on both surfaces; lobes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse; corolla 6 lin. long, oblique; tube gradually tapering downwards; lobes unequal, broad, undulate, glabrous; stamens inserted 1 lin. above the corolla-base, included; style glabrous. ehium trichotomum, Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 108, not of Thunb. Coast Rxgion: Clanwilliam Div.; between Heerelogement and Knagas Berg, under 1000 ft., Drege! Zeekoe Vley, 509 ft., Schlechter, 8489 ! 9. L. Wurmbii (DC. in DC. Prod. x. 11); stem shrubby, branched ; branches at first with minute adpressed pubescence, at length glabrous ; leaves sessile, approximate, erect, lanceolate- linear, rather acute, 4 lin. long, with ash-coloured pubescence on both surfaces, nerveless; eymes simple or bipartite, eorymbosely arranged at the apex of the branches; calyx. white, villous; lobes linear, rather obtuse; corolla white when dry, glabrous, at least ws noracinex (Wright). [Lobostemon. twice as long as the calyx, irregular; stamens shortly exserted ; style glabrous. Echium sp., Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 165 Cenrrat Rearon : Clanwilliam Div.; Wupperthal, Wurmb. in Herb. Drége, 7845! Pakhuis Berg, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 3260! and MacOwan Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1927! Koude Berg, near Wupperthal, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 8736 ! 10. L. argenteus (Buck in Linnea, xi. 133, partly); stem shrubby, branched, hoary, especially when young; leaves sessile, lanceolate, oblong-, ovate- (rarely linear-) lanceolate, acute, 1}—2 in. long, densely clothed on both sides with silky adpressed tomentum ; cymes terminal, spieate, unbranched, somewhat leafy; calyx 3 lin. long, divided rather more than half-way down; lobes ovate- lanceolate, hairy outside, glabrous inside; corolla irregular, 7-8 lin. long, blue; lobes short, rounded, slightly hairy outside; stamens inserted near the base of the corolla-tube, included; style hairy. Echium argenteum, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 166, not of Roth; Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 20; Andr. Rep. t.154; DC. Prod, x. 7; var. a, Lehm. Pl. Asper. 421; Drége, Zwet Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 67. HE. fruticosum, Jacq. Hort. Schenbr.i.t. 34. Echium sp., Drége, l.c. 107. Soutn ArFrica: without locality, Boivin! Forster! Thom! Villette? Alewander ! Coast Reeion: Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Thunberg. Cape Div.; Camps Bay, Zeyher, 4842! 4844! Table Mountain, MacOwan, 2683! Lion. Mountain, 300-1000 ft., gr Bolus, 4508! Burchell, 141! MacOwan, Herb Aust.-Afr., 1928! Wolley Dod, 2329 ! Rondebosc ” ! Worcester Div.; between Worcester and Villiersdorp, Bolus, 5206! Uniondale Div. ; hills near Avontuur, Bolus, 2429! WesTERN ReEGion: Little Namaqualand; between Pedros Kloof and Lily Fontein, 3000-4000 ft., Drége. 11, L. pilicaulis (C. H. Wright); a dwarf shrub; branches terete, densely pilose; leaves oblanceolate, 15 lin. long, 4 lin. wide, the upper sometimes ovate, acute, densely pilose on both surfaces, some of the hairs bulbous-based ; calyx silky on both surfaces; lobes unequal, 3-5 lin, long, }~1 lin. wide, lanceolate, acute; corolla 6 lin. in diam., tubular-campanulate, oblique; lobes short, rounded ; stamens inserted near the base of the corolla-tube; filaments shorter than the corolla; style 7 lin. long, glabrous. Coast Region: Albany Div.; Cypher Fontein, and a town, 2000 ft., MacOwam, 4311.) » and Flats near Grabams 12. L. montanus (Buek in Linnaa, xi. 132); a much branched shrub, 2-3 ft. high (Burehell) or a dwarf tree, 5-6 ft. high, with stem up to 3 in. in diam. (MacOwan); younger branches densely covered with long white strigose hairs; leaves oblanceolate, acute, entire, 3 in. long, 9 lin. wide, clothed with long adpressed hairs ; midrib prominent beneath; flowers densely crowded at the ends of the branches ; calyx 6-7 lin. long, hirsute on both surfaces ; lobes _ Lobostemon.] BORAGINEE (Wright). 81 linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 1} lin, wide, margins scabrid; corolla 9 lin. long, widely campanulate, pubescent on both surfaces ; lobes elliptic-oblong, 3-4 lin. long, undulate ; stamens about as long as the corolla; filaments with a tuft of hairs at their base, glabrous elsewhere; style filiform, as long as the corolla, pilose. Echium montanum, DC. Prod. x. 15. Var. 8, minor (C. H. Wright): calyx-lobes very unequal ; corolla 7 lin. long ; filaments inserted slightly above the base of the corolla-tube. Soura AFrricaA: without locality, Sieber / Coast Region: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain and Lion Mountain, Ecklon & Zeyher, Devils Mountain, Burchell, 8474! Drége! Bolus, 39471 above Tokay plantation, Wolley Dod, 1274! wooded slopes above Groot Schuur, Wolley Dod, 3360! top of Muizen Berg, 1000 ft., near False Bay, Zeyher, 3450! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 922! Stellenbosch Div. ; near Lowry’s Pass, Burchell, 8294! Caledon Div.; rocky places near the mouth of Onrust River, Zeyher, 3448! Var. 8, Humansdorp Div. ; hill side, Humansdorp, about 300 ft., Galpin, 4345 ! 13. L. fruticosus (Buek in Linnmwa, xi. 134); a shrub; branches terete, pubescent ; leaves oblanceolate, obtuse (more rarely acute), up to 1% in. long and 5 lin. wide, with inconspicuous bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces; cymes in the axils of the upper leaves; calyx 4 lin. long, densely silky on both surfaces, especially near the base outside; lobes ~ lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate ; corolla 7 lin. long, pale pink (Galpin) ; stamens all included, inserted near the base of the corolla-tube ; style about as long as the corolla. DO. Prod. x. 6. Echium fruticosum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2,199; Bot. Reg. t. 36; Bot. Mag. t. 1772; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 165; Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. 1. 15; Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 89. Echium fruticosum, var. B, Lehm. Pl. Asper. 421. E. africanum, Pers. Syn. i. 163. Var. 8, bergianus (DC. Prod. x. 6); hairs on the leaves with more con- spicuous bulbous-bases. Echiwm bergianum, BE. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfhlanzen- geogr. Docwmente, 86, 99,105. E. sp., Drége, l.c. 121. HH. fruticosum, Berg. Pl. Cap. 39; var. a, Lehm. Pl. Asper. 420, and Ic. t. 38. HE. scabrum, Lehm. Ie. t. 35. < Sovurn AFRicA: without locality, Villette! Forbes! Harvey, 221! Miller! Var. B, Sieber, 92! Coast Region: Malmesbury Div.; Hopefield, Schlechter, 5189! Paarl Div. ; - Great Britain Rock, near Paarl, Wilms, 3462! Cape Div.; Devils Mountain, 600 ft., Bolus, 3723! at the foot of Table Mountain, 1000 ft., MacOwan, 2749! andin Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1636! Ecklon, 253 near Cape Town, Zeyher, 4781! Bolus, - 2899! Pappe ! above Groot Schuur, Wolley Dod, 629! Camps Bay, Zeyher, 81! Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 571! Stellenbosch Div. ; Stellenbosch, Sanderson, 978! Worcester Div. ; near Bains Kloof, 800 ft., Bolus, 2900 ! near Brand Vlei, 900 ft., Bolus, 5207 ! Caledon Div.; Hermannspetrus Fontein, 300 ft., Galpin, 4848 | Oudts- hoorn Div. ; near the Oliphants River, Gill/ Uniondale Diy. ; near Avontuur, Bolus, 2430! Var. 8, Paarl Div.; by the Berg River, near Paarl, Drege, 7847b! Paarl Mountain, Drege, 7847c! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 650 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 816! Drége, ’7847a! Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; Ezels Fontein, Whitehead! 14. L. strigosus (Buek in Linnea, xi. 136) ; stem erect, branched, leafy, villous ; leaves sessile, subimbricate, keeled, lanceolate, obtuse, 32 BORAGINEE (Wright). [ Lobostemon. with white inconspicuously bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces; — spike terminal, bipartite, short ; flowers secund ; corolla large, sub- © regular ; stamens longer than the corolla, fixed to the middle of the — corolla-tube, slightly exserted, DC. Prod. x.9. Echium strigosum, — Sw. ex Lehm. Pl. Asper. 432, and Ic. t. 17; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed Schult, 164. Coast Rzcion : Swellendam Div. ; amongst shrabs in stony places on the mountains near Hessaquas Kloof and Paspas Valley, Ecklon § Zeyher ! 15. L. obovatus (DC. Prod. x. 10); stem shrubby; branches with white adpressed hairs; leaves oblong-obovate, the lower almost spathulate, 12-14 lin. long, 4-5 lin. broad, with white adpressed — hairs, many (especially on the under surface) bulbous-based ; spikes — short, in a terminal panicle; calyx divided to the base; segments ~ linear, acute, 5 lin. long, $ lin. broad, with long silky subadpressed — hairs on both surfaces ; corolla 9 lin. long, subregular, pubescent outside; tube cylindrical in the lower 3 lin.; lobes 14 lin. long, rounded ; stamens inserted 11 lin. above the corolla-base; style hairy. Lchium spathulatum, EB. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pflanzen- geogr. Documente, 68, not of Viv. eae Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; near Lily Fontein, 4000-5000 ft., Drége, 3089! and without precise locality, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 5717! 16. L. trigonus (Buek in Linnea, xi. 135); upper part of stem and branches villous-hispid ; leaves sessile, subimbricate, channelled, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, strigose-pilose on both surfaces with raised dots; spikes terminal, usually congested and few-flowered, sometimes panicled and many-flowered; flowers secund; bracts ovate-lanceolate; calyx hispid; lobes lanceolate, obtuse; corolla irregular, pilose outside ; lobes rotundate; stamens inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube, included. DO. Prod. x. 9. Echium trigonum, Thunb. Prodr. 33; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 166; Lehm. Pl. Asper. 428; Ic. t. 36. Coast Region: Alexandria Div.; Zuurberg Range, Ecklon § Zeyher, and Uitenhage Div.; Karroo, between Coe a : Zeyher (ex Buek). ga and Sunday Rivers, Ecklon ¥ 17. L. obtusifolius (DC. Prod. x. 7); stem shrubby; branches velvety pubescent ; leaves sessile, elliptie, obtuse, 6 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, sparsely pilose and at length white-punctate, ciliate when young; cymes spicate, panicled; bracts ovate, shorter than the corolla; calyx 5 lin, long, divided nearly to the base ; lobes 1 lin. broad, 3-nerved, with simple white adpressed hairs on both surfaces ; corolla 9 lin. long, purple, pubescent outside in the upper half; lobes rotundate, undulate, unequal; stamens included, one much shorter than the rest; anthers 3 lin. long; style subulate, about as long as the corolla, with simple subadpressed hairs. Echium sp. Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 130. : Lobostemon. | BORAGINEZ (Wright). 33 Coast ReGion: Swellendam Div.; Breede River, Gill! Uitenhage Div.; on the Karroo-like hills by the Zwartskops River, Zeyher, 283! Zwartskops River, Drége, 7850, ev DC., between Coega River and Sunday River, Drége, 7851! and without precise locality, Zeyher, 976! Port Hlizabeth Div.; Port Elizabeth, Holub! Algoa Bay, Forbes! Bethelsdorp, Zeyher, 78! 18. L. Zeyheri (Buek in Linnea, xi. 134); stem and branches grey-tomentose ; leaves many, semiamplexicaul, subspathulate, atten- uate towards the base, wider and rather acute towards the recurved apex, silky-villous with silvery hairs, midrib thickened ; flowers alternate, sessile, in a terminal leafy almost simple spicate cyme; bracts similar to the leaves, but more acute and unarmed ; calyx- lobes unequal, silky; corolla large, irregular; stamens included, fixed to the middle of the corolla-tube. DC. Prod. x. 6. Coast Rxcion: Tulbagh Div.; in muddy places on Winterhoek Berg, Zeyher. 19. L. paniculatus (Buek in Linnea, xi. 139); branches elongate, angular and pubescent above, the flower-bearing hispid; leaves sessile, lanceolate, 11 in. long, 4 lin. broad, hispid, with white bulbous-based hairs on the midrib and margins ; flowers subsessile, secund; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, ciliate; corolla 6 lin. long, regular, white ; stamens fixed in the corolla-throat, exserted. DC. Prod. x. 8. Echium paniculatum, Thunb. in Schrad. Neues Journ. i, iii. 41; FI. Cap. ed. Schult. 165 ; Lehm, Pl. Asper. 425; Ic. t, 23, not of Drége. Coast Reeion: Tulbagh Div.; Witsen Berg, Pappe! Caledon Div.; near Bot River, 400 ft., Schlechter, 9487! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Mund, Pappe! Riversdale Div.; near Zoetemelks River, in a walk to the White-clay Pit, Burchell, 6690! : Centra ReGion: Ceres Div.; Verkeerde Vley, Thunberg. Somerset Div. ; Somerset, Miss Bowker ! 20. L. stachydeus (DC. Prod. x. 7); stem shrubby, branched ; branches densely villous-hirsute; leaves linear-sublanceolate, 10-15 lin. long, 2-3 lin. wide, rather acute, seabrid with bulbous- based hairs, the upper adpressed villous, margins revolute ; flowers sessile, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves or few in an interrupted spicate cyme ; bracts longer than the calyx, dilated at the base; calyx deeply 5-lobed, adpressedly and densely villous- silky, thrice shorter than the corolla; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute ; corolla 5-6 lin. long, blue, glabrous; stamens shortly exserted. Echium sp., Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 62. CenTRAL ReGion : Beaufort West Div. ; Nieawveld Mountains near Beaufort West, 3000-5000 ft., Drége, 7849! 21. L. cederiefolius (DC. Prod. x. 7); stem shrubby; branches terete, villous-subhirsute; leaves imbricate, lanceolate, acute, 1 in. long, 2-3 lin. wide, seabrid on both surfaces with bulbous-based hairs ; flowers in short dense racemose cymes; bracts VOL. IV.—SECT, IL. D 34 BORAGINER (Wright). [ Lobostemon. ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, scabrid on the underside of the midrib; — ealyx-lobes linear, ciliate, glabrous outside except on the nerve, : pubescent-scabrid within; corolla tubular, subregular, rather glab- — rous, purple, 7-8 lin. long (also stated by DC. to be 8-9 lin. long q and blue), twice as long as the calyx ; stamens included, Sovurn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 9358, 22. L. ferocissimus (DC. Prod. x. 7); a shrub; branches 4 canescent, purplish and green, silvery when young; leaves sessile, | lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, up to 20 lin. by 5 lin., pilose, with q spinous bristles on the midrib and margins; cymes terminal, spicate, unbranched, leafy ; calyx divided nearly to the base, 4, lin. 7 long, with simple hairs outside and thicker ones at the apex of the q lobes; lobes oblong, 1 lin. broad, acute; corolla 6~7 lin. long; | lobes elliptic, obtuse, ciliate ; stamens inserted near the base of the q corolla, about as long as the corolla or slightly exserted; style pilose. Eehiwm ferocissimum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 39. E. Seron, Pers. Syn. i. 163; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 11. E. argen- teum, Roth, Bot. Ath. 63; var. B, Lehm. Pl, Asper. 422. #. verrucosum, Drege, Zwei Pflanazengeogr. Documente, 101. HE. spy Drége, le, 103, 114. . Van. £, albiealyx (C. H. Wright); leaves oblong or oblanceolate, 14 in. long, 2-3 lin. broad, spinous bristles smaller than in the type; calyx divided rather more than half-way down, with more numerous simple white hairs and fewer thickened ones than in the type. Coast Recton: Malmesbury Div.; Riebeck’s Castle, under 1000 ft., Drége, 1964b! Cape Div.; railway near Maitland Bridge, Wolley Dod, 2164! Paarl Div.; Klein Drakenstein Mountains and Dal Josaphat, under 1000 ft., ~Preve, 19649 ! Great Drakenstein Mountains and at the foot of Paarl Mountain, ow 1000 ft., Drége. Tulbagh Div. ; Steendal near Tulbagh, Pappe/ New Kloof, Schlechter, 7488! Ceres Road, 800 ft., Schlechter, 9069! Worcester Div. ; on mountains near De Liefde, 1000-2004 ft., Drege. 1afiss Caledon Div. ; mountain ridges between Zwart Berg and Zonder Kinde River, Zeyher, 1241! Albany Div.; without collector’s name, 36! Fort Beaufort Div,; without precise locality, Cooper, 5501 CentraL Reeion: Var. 8, Graaff Reinet Div.; on the sides of Oude Berg, near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 155! 23. L. scaber (DC. Prod. x. 6); stem woody, branched, terete, pilose when young; leaves approximate, sessile, oblong, acute, 9 by 3 lin., with short bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces, margins ciliate ; cymes terminal on the branches, spicate, often branched; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller; calyx divided almost to the base, 4 lin. long; lobes linear, $ lin. wide, aeute, hairy outside; — corolla blue, 7-8 lin. long, irregular, hairy outside ; lobes broad, undulate ; stamens slightly exserted ; style longer than the stamens, hairy. Hehium scabrum, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 166, not of | ™m Coast REGION: Swellendam Div. ; without precise locality, Zeyher / Mossel Bay Div. ; near the landing-place at Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6301! Humansdorp Div. ; hill sides, Humansdorp, 300 ft., Galpin, 4344 | Uitenhage Div. ; Grasrug, Lobostemon.] BORAGINEE (Wright). 35 800-400 ft., Bawr, 1022! Algoa Bay, Forbes! Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 1242! Alexandria Div.; between Rautenbachs Drift and Addo Drift, Burchell, 4210! Fort Beaufort Div. ; Koonap River, near Adelaide, Cooper, 545 ! 24. L. paniculeformis (DC. Prod. x. 8); a shrub; branches terete below, somewhat angled above, velvety pubescent, mixed with longer hairs; leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, with a few simple hairs above and large bulbous-based hairs beneath ; cymes panicled ; ealyx-lobes oblong-linear, obtuse; corolla 5 lin. long; stamens slightly exserted. LEchium paniculatum, Drege, Zwet Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 180; not of Thunb. nor Lehm. Coast Recaton: Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Zeyher, 1245! near Groene Kloof, ége! Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh, Thom, 1206! Caledon Div.; between Genadendal and Donker Hoek, Burchell, 7917! 25. L. elongatus (Buek in Linnea, xi. 140); stem branched; branches elongated, angular and pubescent above; flower-bearing branches softly pilose with long patent hairs; leaves sessile, semi- amplexieaul, lanceolate, rather obtuse, with short soft white bulbous- based hairs on both surfaces, subscabrid; flowers sessile, subsecund on the branches of a terminal leafy congested panicle; bracts searcely longer than the calyx, lanceolate, acute, pubescent; calyx 5-partite, hispid; lobes lanceolate, acuminate; stamens exserted, fixed in the corolla-throat. DC. Prod. x. 8. Coast Reeion: Swellendam Div. ; on mountains near Swellendam, Mund. 26. L. verrucosus (Buck in Linnea, xi. 138); branches elongate, angular, canescent; leaves erect, congested, linear-lanceolate, up to 14 in. long and 4 lin. wide, obtuse, slightly keeled, at first almost glabrous above, then subhispid with adpressed hairs, seabrid with bulbous-based hairs beneath ; panicle terminal, at first eongested, then lax ; flowers subsessile, erect, secund ; calyx hirsute, or hispid with patent hairs; lobes oblong, acute; corolla 6 lin. long ; lobes rounded ; stamens inserted in the upper part of the corolla-tube, exserted. DC. Prod. x. 8, inel. vars. Dreget and pauciflorus, Echium verrucosum, Sw. in Lehm. Pl, Asper. 429, and Ie. t. 37; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 164; Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 104 (not 101); Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 59. Coast Reaton: Cape Div.; Lion Mountain, under 1000 ft., Drége! slopes south of Orange Kloof Road, Wolley Dod, 1648! between Rondebosch and Wynberg, Burchell, 773! Paarl Div.; Klein Drakenstein Mountains and Dal Josaphat, under 1000 ft., Drége. Tulbagh Div.; Winterhoek, Pappe/ near Tulbagh, Pappe! Mitchell’s Pass, 1300 ft., Schlechter, 8941! valley above Tulbagh waterfall, Bolus, 5209! Worcester Diy. ; Brand Vlei, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 9941! and without precise locality, Ecklon § Zeyher. Swellendam Div.; Barry- dale, 1200 ft., Galpin, 4347! 27. L. rosmarinifolius (DC. Prod. x. 10); stem shrubby, pilose; branches terete, tomentose-canescent below, white pilose above, swollen at the insertion of the petioles; leaves shortly p2 86 poracinex (Wright). [ Lobostemon. petioled, linear-lanceolate, erect, scattered, 1 in. or rather more long, firm, on the upper side green, with bulbous-based hairs and channelled down the centre, on the under side densely canescent with long hairs, margins reflexed; eymes spicate, terminal, simple, few-flowered ; bracts as long as the calyx ; calyx 5- (rarely 6-) fid; lobes linear, two much longer than and half as wide again as the others; corolla subregular, one-third longer than the calyx; tube pilose from the middle to the limb; stamens fixed at the bottom of | the corolla, very short. Echium rosmarinifolium, Vahl, Symb, iil. 22; Lehm. Pl. Asper. 431. South Arrica: without precise locality, Bulow. 28. L. microphyllus (Buek in Linnea, xi. 142); stem erect, branched; branches straight, densely ineano-pubescent; leaves — sessile, somewhat sheathing, ovate-lanceolate, rather acute, 5 by 2 lin., densely hispid on both surfaces when young, hairs deciduous — and leaving conspicuous bulbous bases especially on the lower — surface ; cymes terminal, much contracted ; calyx 21 lin. long, with long hairs outside and shorter inside ; lobes oblong, obtuse ; corolla 8 lin. long, violet (Bue); lobes rounded, obtuse ; stamens inserted — 1g the corolla-throat, long exserted; style glabrous. DC. Prod. x. Coast REGION : Stellenbosch Div. ; near Gordon’s Bay, 50 ft., Bolus, 8080! Uniondale Div. ; mountains near Langekloof, Ecklon §* Zeyher. _29. L. diversifolius (Buek in Linnea, xi. 140); branches erect, hirsute; leaves sessile, the lower 1 in. by 2 lin., linear-lanceolate, attenuate at both ends, rather obtuse, slightly keeled, papillose-— hispid, those of the flowering branches 3-5 lin. Jong, ovate-lanceolate, reeurved at the apex, imbricate, silky-canescent or white scabrid; spikes terminal, panicled; flowers secund; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate, hispid ; corolla violet, 3 lin. long; tube scarcely 1 lin. . in hepa stamens fixed in the corolla-throat, exserted. DOC. Prod. “29: Coast Reaion;: Caledon Div.; mountain ridges between Zwart Berg and Zonder Kinde River, 1000-2000 ft., Zeyher, 3452! Swellendam Div. ; acon like hills between Hessequas Kloof and Breede River, Ecklon S§ Leyher (ex Buek). Usone Div.; at the foot of Kammannassie Mountains near Uniondale, Bolus, 30. L. spherocephalus (Buck in Linnea, xi. 143); stem slender, shrubby; branches ascending, glabrous or eanescent, when young almost villous ; leaves sessile, somewhat sheathing at the base, approximate, lanceolate, obtuse, 4 by 12 lin., with adpressed hairs on both surfaces and a few bulbous-based ones on the lower; cymes terminal on branches near the apex of the stem, often congested ; bracts oblong; calyx 2 lin. long, divided nearly to the base; lobes oblong-lanceolate, with long hairs outside and shorter inside ; corolla 3 lin. long, broadly campanulate, subregular ; lobes ee eee wee ee 1 Lobostemon. } BORAGINEE (Wright). 37 oblong, rounded, 13 lin. long; stamens inserted just below the corolla-throat, long exserted; style glabrous. DC. Prod. x. 12. Echium spherocephalum, Vahl, Symb. iii. 22 ; Lehm. Pl. Asper. 431; Ic. t. 28; Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 118. Echium capitatum, B, Lam. Lil. i. 414; Eneycl. viii. 666; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iv. 715. Var. B, herbacea (Buek in Linnea, xi. 144); stems many, unbranched, spring- ing from one root ; cymes terminal, compound, cylindrical ; hairs at the base of the stamens less conspicuous than in the type. DC. Prod, x 12. Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div.; Clanwilliam, near Twenty-four Rivers, Ecklon & Zeyher. Swellendam Div.; between Swellendam and Breede River, Burchell, 7453! Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, 1000-2000 ft., Drege! Neither locality nor collector’s name is given for the variety, which I have not seen. 31. L. capitatus (Buek in Linnea, xi. 143); stem shrubby ; branches aseending, pilose ; leaves lanceolate, hispid on both sides with bulbous-based hairs, 1 in. by 22 lin. ; eymes on short branches corymbosely arranged near the apex of the stem, sometimes con- tracted into an apparent head ; bracts linear; calyx 14 lin. long, very hairy outside ; lobes linear, obtuse ; corolla regular, red (Buek); tube 1 lin. long, almost cylindrical; lobes 1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse ; stamens inserted at the base of and twice to thrice as long as the ~ corolla-lobes ; style glabrous, DC. Prod. x. 12. Echium capitatum, Linn. Mant. 42; Thunb. Prodr. 33, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 166; Lehm. Pl. Asper. 430, and Ic. t. 27; Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 102. Echium capitatum, var. a, Lam. Lil. i. 414, and Encycl. viii. 666; Roem. § Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 13. Hchium hispidum, Burm. f. Prod. Cap. 5. . Coast Reeion: Malmesbury Div.; Laauwskloof, near Groene Kloof, under 1C00 ft., Drege! Groene Kloof, Thunberg, Pappe! Bolus, 4320! Zwartland, Thunberg. Cape Div.; Kasteel Berg, Pappe / Burchell’s 6848, collected in Riversdale Div. between Zoetemelks River and Little Vet River, may be a broad-leaved form of this species. 32. L. echioides (Lehm. in Linnea, v. 378, t. 5, fig. 1); stem glabrous ; branches divaricate, hirsute; leaves sessile, elliptic-lanceo- late, obtuse, firm, glabrous above, substrigose with white points beneath especially towards the apex and margins ; spike terminal, congested; bracts ciliate, pilose beneath; calyx hirsute; lobes elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse ; corolla small, violet, scarcely twice as long as the calyx; stamens inserted in the corolla-throat, long exserted. L. lehmannianus, Buek in Linnea, xi. 141. Coast Region: Swellendam Div.; near the Breede River, Ecklon ¥ Zeyher. 33. L. fastigiatus (Buek in Linnea, xi. 141); stem woody, branched, densely and adpressedly hairy when young; leaves sessile, oblong, acute, 9 lin. long, 3 lin, wide, densely covered with adpressed 38 BORAGINER (Wright). [ Lobostemon. hairs (some bulbous-based) ; cymes spicate, near the apex of the plant ; bracts lanceolate ; calyx 2 lin. long, divided nearly to the base ; lobes lanceolate, densely hairy outside and on the margins, — with much shorter hairs inside; corolla 3 lin. long, subregular, — violet (De Candolle); tube narrow; lobes oblong, obtuse ; stamens fixed to the middle of the corolla-tube, 43 lin. long, much exserted ; style glabrous. DC. Prod. x. 9. Coast Reaion: Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Pappe! Karoo-like hills between Kochmans (Cogmans) Kloof and Gauritz River, Ecklon Y Zeyher (ex Buek). Uniondale Div.; Lange Kloof, Ecklon § Zeyher (ex Buek). 34. L. trichotomus (DC. Prod. x. 11); stem shrubby, erect; branches with minute white pubescence; leaves sessile, approximate, linear-lanceolate, more or less acute, with closely adpressed hairs on both surfaces ; cymes spicate, forming a terminal panicle ; calyx 2 lin. long, cut nearly to the base, densely hairy on both surfaces; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute; corolla 6 lin. long, oblique ; tube funnel-shaped, glabrous; lobes unequal, rounded, undulate ; stamens inserted 1 lin. above the corolla-base ; filaments unequal, some exserted ; style glabrous. L. thymel@oides, incl. vars. longifolius and setulosus, DC. Prod. x. 11. LL. breviflorus, DC. Le. 10. Echium trichotomum, Thunb, Prodr. 33, in Schrad. Neues Journ. i. iii. 39, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 164, not of Drege; Lehm. Pl. Asper. 483, and Ic. t. 24. . canaliculatum, BR. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 70. EE. strigosum, Eckl. ex DC. 1.¢. 12, not of Sw. E. sp., Drege, l.c. 69, 71, 78, 119. ; rd Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thom!