﻿1$ BORAGiNE.'E (Wriglit). [Echinospfirmum. 



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 1 -seriate, united at the very 

 base, glochidiate at the apex, crested on the keeled back. Vars. 

 eJatius and suffmtescens, DC. Prod. x. 138. E. sp., Drege, Zwei 

 Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 54. 



South Atrica: without locality, Drege, 9356b, 9356c {ex De Candolle). 



Coast Ebgion : Swellendam Div. ; Plains at Storms Vlei, 500 ft., Galpin, 

 4343 ! 



Centbai Region : Caruarvon Div. ; at Buffels Bout, Burchell, 1592 ! Ceres 

 Div.; at Ongeluks River, Burchell, 1225! Micldleburg Div.; vSiieeuw Berg 

 Range, between Compass Berg and Rheuoster Berg, Drege, 9356a (ex De 

 Candolle). 



Kalahari Rkoion : Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Asbestos Mountains, at the 

 Kloof Village, Burchell, 16t>9! 



3. E. cynoglossoides (Lehm. PI. Asper. 131, not of E. Meyer) ; 

 stem erect, snliruticose, 6 in, to 2 ft. high, hirsute ; leaves lanceolate, 

 obtuse, hispid with bulbous-based hairs, the lower 1| in. long, 

 2|- lin. wide, the upper getting gradually smaller ; racemes panicled 

 towards the end of the stem; pedicels short; cal_\x deeply 5-partite, 

 hispid ; lobes lanceolate, acute, spreading in fruit ; nutlets 4, ovoid - 

 trigonous, verrucose ; spines l-seriate, radiating, glochidiate, com- 

 pressed and united at the base. DC. Prod. x. 138. IlijosoHa 

 cynoglossoides. Lam. III. i. 396. Cynoglossum ecMnatum, Thuuh. in 

 Schrad. Neues Journ. i. iii. 48, Prodr. 34, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 

 162. Rochelia cynoglossoides, Roem. ^ Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. Ill, 

 783. 



Ckntrai, Region-: Sutherland Div. ; Roggeveld, T/utaber*/. 



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 equil or slightly enlarged, closed with obtuse 

 or arching papillose scales; lobes 5, imbricate, obtuse, patent. 

 Stamens^, 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 ; areola 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, fiat. 



Annual or perennial herbs, hispid, villous or bristly; leaves alternate ; cymes 

 dichotomous or racemes simple and unilateral, terminal, usually at length' loosely 

 paniculate, branches long ; flowers blue, violet or white, rarely yellowisli at first 

 crowded, finally distant, in the axils of bracts or of the upper leaves '(bracts 

 sometimes absent). 



DisTRlB. Species about 30, in Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa 



Stem sparingly setose (or glabrons below) (1) rip'aria. 



Stem conspicuously and softly hirsute .., (2) capensis. 



