﻿Myosotis.] BORAGiNE^ (Wright). 19 



long; calyx S-lobed to below the middle, hirsute outside, 1 lin.long ; 

 lobes obtuse, 1-nerved ; corolla blue ; tube slightly longer than the 

 calyx; lobes suborbicular; anthers oblong; style slightly shorter 

 than the corolla-tube ; nutlets white. M. sp., Dnge, Ztoei Pjlanzen- 

 geogr. Documente, 52, 53. 



Central Region : Aliwal North Div. j Witte Bergen, 6000-7000 ft., Drgge, 



7842 I 



2. M. Galpinii (C. H. Wright) ; stem glabrous, purplish-black 

 when dry ; leaves elliptic, attenuate below into a pseudo-petiole 3 iu. 

 long, sheathing at the base and ciliate along the margin ; blade 

 scab rid with bulbous-based hairs above and near the apex beneath, 

 elsewhere glabrous ; cymes pseudo-terminal ; peduncle, rhachis and 

 outside of calyx hirsute ; calyx-lobes f lin. long, linear, 3-nerved ; 

 corolla blue ; tube I lin. long, scaly in the throat ; lobes elliptic- 

 oblong; anthers oblong, inserted near the mouth of the corolla- 

 tube ; style about as long as the corolla-tube ; nutlets lenticular, 

 smooth. 



Central Region : Barkly East Div. ; mountain kloof at Rhodes, 6200 ft., 

 Gal2)in, 2329 ! 



/ 3. M. sylvatica (Hoffm. Deutschl. Fl. ed. i. 85) ; stem hirsute, 

 hairs adpressed when young, spreading and bulbous-based when 

 old; leaves with bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces, the lower 

 elliptic, 2 in. by 9 lin., attenuate into a petiole 2 in. long, obtuse, the 

 upper narrowly lanceolate, sessile, more or less acute ; cymes scorpioid, 

 at length racemose, usually forked ; calyx up to 2 lin. long in fruit, 

 haifs hooked;' teeth lanceolate, rather unequal, 3 -nerved ; corolla 

 3 Im. diam., bright blue, yellow in the throat ; tube slightly longer 

 than the calyx ; lobes suborbicular ; anthers oblong ; style filiform, 

 included. Reiclih. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1322 ; Stwm, Deutsch. Fl. ii. 

 42; Engl. Bot. ed. i. t. 2630, ed. iii. t. 1107; DC Prod. x. 107. 

 M. arvensis, var. sylvatica, Pers. Syn. i, 156. M. graminifolia, var. 

 trinervia, A.DC. in DC. Prod. x. 110. 



Coast Region : Knysna Div. ; Ruigte Vallei, under 100 ft., lyrege, 7841a I 

 near Melville, Burchdl, 5388! Queenstown Div,; mountains near Queenstown, 

 5800-6500 ft., Galpin, 1617 ! 



Centbal Region: GraafE Eeinet Div. j nt Wagenpads Berg, Burchell, 

 2824 ! Oude Berg, near Graaff Reinet, 4500 ft., Bolus, 157 ! 



Kalahari Region .- Orange River Colony ; Beaters Vlei, near Witzies Hoek, 

 5400 ft., Bolvs, 8214 ! Transvaal ?, Wilms! 



Eastern Region: Natal; by streams on the Drakensberg, 6000-7000 ft., 

 Evans, 396a ! 



Also in Europe, North and West Asia and the Canary Islands, 



f/ 4. M. intermedia (Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 164) ; stem 

 branched, hirsute, about 1 ft. high ; leaves oblong-lanceolate or 

 oblanceolate, the lower much tapering downwards, the upper sessile, 

 up to 2 in. long and 5 lin. broad, pilose on both surfaces ; cymes 

 racemose ; pedicels 3 lin. long in fruit ; calyx 1 lin. long in flower. 



