﻿18 BOKAGiNEiE (Wriglit). [Anchusa. 



subdistichous, scabrid ; leaves alternate, almost amplexicaul, linear- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, entire, rigid, hispid when young, at length scabrid 

 with white papillse especially on the upper surface ; cymes spicate, 

 in racemose panicles terminal on the branches, erect, straight ; bracts 

 ovate, acute ; flowers close together, secund, small ; calyx 5-fid, 

 5-angled, hispid, persistent ; lobes regular, ovate, acute, erect ; 

 corolla regular ; tube cylindrical ; lobes 5, obovate, rounded at the 

 apex, erect ; throat closed by five subrotundate fleshy scales, muricate 

 on the back ; stamens 5 ; filaments inserted at the middle of the 

 corolla-tube, very short; anthers included, oblong, acuminate, 

 2-celled ; style filiform nearly as long as the corolla-tube ; 

 stigma obtuse, simple ; nutlets 4, small, subrotundate, rugose, 

 perforated at the base. Buek in Linncea, xi. 131 ; DC- Prod. x. 41 ; 

 Earvey, Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. 2, 299 ; Benth. in Benth. et Hook./. Gen. 

 PL ii. 856, in ohs. Stomafotechium, Spach, Hist. Veg. Plian. ix, 31. 

 Echium paniculatum, var., Thunh. ex DC. Prod, x, 41, 



South Afbica ; without localitj', Thunberff. 



A very doubtful plant, which has been collected only once and not seen by 

 any anthor since Lehmaan. Benthain (I.e.) suggests its affinity to be with 

 Anchusa cajpensis, Thunb. 



X. MYOSOTIS, Linn. 



Calyx shortly or deeply 5-lobed ; lobes narrow, slightly enlarged 

 in fruit. Corolla : tube short ; throat gibbous or almost closed by 

 scales or naked; lobes 5, contorted to the right, obtuse, patent. 

 Stamens 5, fixed to the corolla-tube, included or exscrted ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers ovate or oblong, obtuse ; connective 

 apiculate or blunt. Ovary with 4 separate lobes on a flat disk, 

 erect; style filiform; stigma small, entire, or slightly 2-lol^d; 

 ovule erect. Nutlets 4, distinct, ovoid, erect, hard, shining, fixed' to 

 a small flat or slightly convex disk ; areola small. Seed straight ; 

 cotyledons ovate, flat or plano-convex. 



Annual or perennial, often weak, herbs, villous or more rarely glabrous ; leaves 

 alternate ; cymes racemose, simple or branched, ebracteate or more rarely with a 

 few leafy bracts at the base ; flowers blue, red or white. 



DiSTRiB. Species about 40, widely spread in the temperate regions of the Old 

 World. 



Leaves broadly linear ; calyx-lobes 1-nerved (1) graminifolia. 



Leaves not linear ; calyx-lobes 3-nerved : 



Stem glabrous „ (2) Galpinii. 



Stem hairy 



Hairs on calyx hooked : 



Anthers not apiculate (3) sylvatica. 



Anthers acutely apiculate (4) intermedia. 



Hairs on calyx not hooked (5) afropalustrig. 



y 1. M. graminifoUa (DC. Prod. x. 110); stem erect, almost 

 simple, about 1 ft. high, pilose ; leaves broadly linear, obtuse, the 

 lower attenuate below and 2 in. by 3 lin., scabrid with rather 

 long bulbous-based hairs on the upper surface and margins, almost 

 glabrous below; cymes racemose, elongate ; pedicels at length 2 lin. 



