﻿4 BORAGTNE^ (Wrigllt). 



VIIT. Echinospermum. — Kutlets not depressed. 



XXX Kutlets not laterally compressed, smooth, rugose or granular. 



IX. AnchuBi.— Corolla rpgular. Bracts present in the South African species. 

 Filaments glabrous. Nutlets rugose, broad at the base. 



X. Myosotis. — Corolla regular. Brads none, or few at the base of the in- 

 florescence. Filaments grlabrous. Nutlets smooth, small at the base. 



XI. Litho8T?ermu.m..— Corolla regular. Uracts present. Filaments glabrous. 

 Nudets smooth or rugose, small at the base. 



XII. Lcbostemon. — Corolla irregular. Bracts present. Filaments with a tuft 

 of hairs or ciliate scale at the base. Nutlets rugose or granular, small at the 

 base. 



XIII. Echium.— Corolla irregular. Bracts present. Filaments glabrous or 

 with longitudinally scattered hairs. NvMets rugose, small at the base. 



I. CORDIA, Linn. 



Calyx tuLular or campanulate, ribbed or smooth, 3-5-toothed, often 

 enlarged in fruit. Corolla funnel-shaped, salver-shaped or campanu- 

 late; lolies 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-tid ; stigma 

 capitate or clavate ; ovule erect. Fruit drupaceous, of 4 or fewer 

 1-seeded cells; putamen often bony. Seed exalbuminous ; cotyle- 

 dons thick or thin, plicate ; radicle short. 



Trees or shrubs : leaves alternate, rarely suboppo'^ite, petiolate, entire or 

 toothed ; flowers usually yellow or white, in cymes, spikes or heads. 



DisxaiB. Species about 250, distributed throughout the warmer regions of 

 both hemispheres. 



1. C. caffra (Send, in Linnsea, xxiii. 81); a shrub 6 ft. high; 

 branches glabrous, terete ; leaves ovate, acuminate, more or less 

 acute at the base, serrate or dentate, glabrous, 2| in. long, 1 } in. broad ; 

 petiole slender, up to 1| ia. long ; panicles terminal and lateral, 

 corymbose, shortly peduncled, branches glabrous or puberulous ; calyx 

 campanulate, irregularly 3-4-toothed, glabrous, 2\ lin. long ; corolla 

 4- (rarely 5-) lobecl, 3a lin. long, varying much in depth of lobing ; 

 lobes oblong, sinuate ; anthers oblong, rather longer than the 

 filaments ; ovary glabrous. G. caffra, vars. natalensis, Zeyheri and 

 erosa, Sander, he. Cordia natalensis, Sand., G. Zeyheri, Sond., and 

 C. erosa, Sond. in Limicea, I.e. 



Coast Region : Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens River, near the Ford, Bun-hell, 

 4656 ! Batburst Div. ; at the mouth of the Great Fish River, western side, 

 Burchell, 3734.1 near Theopolis, between Riet Pontein and the sea shore| 

 EiircJiell, 4103! Albany Div.; Bowler! Zeyher, 1! East London Div. j wooded 

 valley, East London, 50 ft., Gal-pin, 5759! 



Eastern Region: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 682! near Durban, Giteinzws, 97 ! 

 Wilma, 1914 ! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 263 ! 



1 regard Bonder's varieties as varying sexual conditions. 



II. EHRETIA, Linn. 



Cahjx small, 5.partite. CoroUa-tnbe short; lobes 5, imbricate, 

 obtuse, patent. Stamens 5, affixed to the corolla-tube, usually 



