Lithospermum.| UXXXIX, BORAGINES (BAKER AND WRIGHT), 59 
Stem-leaves alternate. Flowers white, yellow or blue, arranged in 
bracteate scorpioid cymes. 
Species 40, widely dispersed, mainly in the temperate regions of both hemi- 
spheres. 
Annual; branches with adpressed hairs ‘ A Sls als: arvense. 
Perennial; branches with patent hairs 4 é . 2. L. officinale. 
1, L. arvense, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 132. Annual. Stems 1-2 ft. 
long, clothed with short adpressed hairs. Stem-leaves ascending, the 
upper sessile, linear, acute, the lower lanceolate, obtuse, subpetiolate. 
Cymes long, bracteate. Calyx in flower 3 lin., in fruit 4—6 lin. long; 
tube very short; lobes lanceolate. Corolla white; tube as long as the 
calyx; limb } lin. in diam. Nutlets ovoid, drab, stony, rugose, 
glabrous.—Fl. Dan. t. 456; DC. Prodr. x. 74; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. 
Aethiop. 116; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 174; C. H. Wright in Dyer, 
Fl. Cap. iv. II. 24. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: near Merosowa, 4000 ft., Schimper. 
Also in Europe, Asia, and South Africa, 
2. L. officinale, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 132. Perennial. Stems 2—5 
ft. long, erect, densely hairy, simple or branched. Leaves many, 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subsessile, covered above with short 
bristly bulbous-based hairs, slightly pubescent beneath. Cymes long, 
copiously bracteate. Calyx in flower 14 lin. long, finally 3-4 lin. ; tube 
very short ; lobes linear, acute. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx ; 
hairy outside, yellowish-white; lobes rounded. Nutlets ovoid, pearly 
white, bony, 14 lin. long.—DC. Prodr. x. 76; C. H. Wright in Dyer, 
Fl. Cap. iv: ii. 23; var. abyssinicum, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
355. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Mount Guna, 10,800 ft., Schimper, 
1420! Somak Efat, Roth, 132 (434)! Ankober, Roth, 156 (433)! British East 
Africa: 2 days’ march from Eldama Ravine, Whyte ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: at Abori on Lake Victoria, Fischer, 
435 ; Kinga Mountains, 8000 ft., Goetze, 944; Kilimanjaro, 8800 it., Volkens, 
947 ! 
Widely spread all round the North temperate zone, and extending to South 
Africa, 
15. LOBOSTEMON, Lehm.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 863. 
Calyx 5-partite, not accrescent; segments linear or lanceolate. 
Corolla-tube funnel-shaped or subcylindrical, not scaled at the throat ; 
limb slightly irregular ; lobes suborbicular. Stamens inserted in the 
corolla-tube, unequal; filaments filiform; anthers small, suborbicular, 
or oblong. Ovary with 4 distinct lobes inserted on the narrow gyno- 
base; style filiform; stigma small, subcapitate or emarginate ; ovules 
erect. Nuts 4, erect, ovoid, rugose. Seed straight.—Perennial herbs 
or shrubs. Stem-leaves alternate, usually hispid. Flowers blue or 
