﻿Gynoglossum.'\ 



BORAGINE^ (Wright). 



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Coast Region : TTuiomlale Div. ; Langekloof, Thunhcrg ! 



De Candolle suggests that this may be the same as G. enerve, Turcz. 



VIII. ECHIirOSPERMUM, Swartz. 



Calyx 5-partite ; lobes ovate or narrow. Corolla : tube short, 

 throat clothed mside with 5 short or arching scales; lobes 5, 

 imbricate, obtuse, patent. Stamens 5, fixed to the corolla-tube, 

 included ; filaments very short ; anthers ovate-obloDg, obtuse. 

 Ovary ovoid, shortly 4-lobed ; style between the lobes, short; stigma 

 subcapitate; ovule laterally fixed. Nutlets 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, canesceut, 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. 



DisTBiB. Species about 50, cliiefly in tlie temperate regions of Europe and Asia, 

 a few in North America and Australia. 



Fruit-spines 2-seriate ... ... ... ... ... (1) Lappula. 



Frait-spines 1 -seriate : 



Flowers sessile ... ... ... (2) capense. 



Flowers shortly pedicelled ... ... (3) cynoglossoides. 



1. E. Lappula (Lehm. PI. 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 calyx ; 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 Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 49, 

 137, not of Lehm, E. squarrosa, Reichh. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 345. 

 Myosotis Lappula, Linn. 6|p. Plant, ed. 1, 131. M. squarrosa^ lletz. 

 Obs. ii. 9. 



South Afeica : without locality, Boivin! 



Coast Reoion : 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 ! 



CENTRATi Region : Somerset Div. ; western side of the Great Fish River, 

 Biirchell, 3252 ! Bosch Berg, 2800-3000 ft., MacOa-an, 1881 ! between the Zunr- 

 berg Range and Klein Bruintjes Hoogte, 2000-2500 fc, Dreje ! Graaff Reinet 

 Div. ; Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., Bolus, 273 ! 274 ! Albert Div. ; Stormberg Spruit, 

 5000fc., Dreje/ 



Kalahari Region : Griqualand West, Hay Div. ; Griqua Town, Burchell, 

 1033 ! J933/1 ! Asbestos Mountains, by the Kloof Village, Burchell, 1688! Orange 

 River Colony; Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, Barrett-Hamilton! Transvaal; 

 Doom Place, Upper Molappo River, Holub ! 



PjASTebn Region: Natal, Cooper, 2801! 



2. E. capense (DC. Prod. x. 138) ; stem erect, branched ; leaves 



