﻿Tysonia.'l BORAGiNEiE (Wright). 13 



wide; bracts few, linear; bracteoles ; calyx 2 lin. lonir, 3 lin. in 

 diam. ; corolla yellowish {Tyson) 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 Re&ion : Griqualand East; by rivulets near Clv'les'lale, 30OO ft., 

 Tyson, 2117 ! Natal ; at the foot of the Drakeusburg, Wood, 3557 ! 



VII. CYN03L0SSTJM, 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 saccate 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. 



Pereunial or biennial herbs, often tall, slightly branched, canescent, villous or 

 almost woolly ; leaves alternate, the radicle often longr 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 lacinise deciduous with the nutlets. 



DisTEiB, 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 ... ... (1) enerve. 



Pedicels short in fruit ; leaves both radical and cauline ... (2) micranthum. 



1. C. enerve (Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 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, lar ; pedicels elongating 

 to 1 in. and recurving in fruit ; calyx 1 lin. long, hairy outside ; 

 lobes ovate ; corolla blue or red ; tube 1 lin. long ; lobes i lin. long, 

 obtuse, with a very prominent thick scale at their base ; nutlets 

 entirely covered with glochidiate spines. Echinospermicm enerve, 

 E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Bocumente, 47, 131, 137, 

 151. 



Coast Region: Cape Div. ; between Wynberg Butts and Klassenbosch, 

 Wolley Bod, 2459 1 Riversdale Div. ; Great Vale River, Burchell, 6343 ! by the 

 Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6810! Uitenhage Div.; near JJitenhitge, Hurchell, 

 42 'i2! Albany Div. ; between Assegai Bosch and Rauteubachs Dv'iit, Burchell, 

 4187! Bathurst Div.; Kaffir Drift Military Post, Burchell, 3768! Cathcart 

 Div. ; Blesbok Flats, 3000-4000 ft , Drege ! 



Central Region: t?omerset Div.; near Somerset East, BovA-er .' Bosch 

 Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1211 ! 



