﻿20 BOEAGiNEiE (Wright). [Myosotis. 



almost 2 lin. long in fruit, with spreading uncinate hairs outside ; 

 lobes subulate, 3-nerved ; corolla-tube slightly longer than the calyx, 

 with 5 conspicuous brown bilobed appendages in the throat ; lobes 

 Tounded; stamens inserted halfway up the corolla-tube; anthers 

 ovoid, apiculate ; style i as long as the corolla-tube ; nutlets smooth, 

 convex on the back, keeled on the ventral side. Koch, Syn. 505 ; 

 DC. Prod. X. 108. M. sp., Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Bocumente, 

 87, 117. 



Coast Regtos- : Malmesbnry Div. ; Groenekloof , JEcklon ! Paarl Div. ; Panrl 

 Mountain, 1000-2000 ft., Pregg , 7840a ! Caledon Dir. ; near the Hot-sprin-,', 

 near Caledon, Bolus, 78^0 ! t3eorgel)iv. ; Outeniqua Mountains, 2000-3000 ft., 

 Drege, 7840b! 



TTKNrBAL Region : Somerset Div. ; Somerget East, BowTcer ! 



Also in Europe, the Orient and North Asia. 



5. M. afropalustris (C. H. Wright) ; stem erect, about 2 ft. 

 high, hispid with deflexed hairs ; lower leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 

 much attenuate below, upper ovate, rounded at the base, hispid with 

 usually bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces ; inflorescence much- 

 branched ; calyx \-\^ lin. long, enlarging in fruit, with ad pressed 

 curved (but not hooked) hairs outside ; lobes lanceolate, 3-nerved ; 

 corolla blue, \\ lin. in diam. ; tube about as long as the calyx ; 

 lobes shortly oblong or suborbicular, obtuse ; throat-scales slightly 

 bilobed, yellow, pubescent ; stamens insetted, near the top of the 

 corolla-tube ; anthers oblong ; connective produced above into an 

 obtuse appendage ; style as long as the corolla-tube ; nutlets dorsally 

 compressed, smooth. 



Var. fi, glabra (C. H. Wright) ; leaves glabrous beneath except near the 

 apex. 



CoiST Region : Knysua Div. ; between Goukamma River and the west end 

 of Groene Vallei, Burchell, 5611 ! 



Centeal Regiok : Aliwal North Div. ; on the Witte Bergen, Cooper, 641 ! 



Kalahaki Region : Var. /8, Orange River Colony ; without precise locality. 

 Cooper, 891 ? Basuto Land ; without precise looality , Cooper, 942 ! 



Eastern Region: Natal; Mooi River, in damp ground, 3800 ft., Wood, 

 3184! 3487! Var. ;3, Pondoland ; Paku's Territory, Sutherland! Natal; 

 Greenwich Farm, Riet Vlei, Frt/ in Herb. Galpin, 2732! 



Im.perfectly known species. 



6. M. semiamplexicanlis (DC. Prod. x. 110) ; stem erect, nearly 

 simple, patently, densely and minutely hirsute; leaves oblong, 

 hirsute-pilose on both surfaces, the lower attenuate into a petiole, the 

 upper semi-amplexicaul ; pedicels as long as the calyx ; calyxS-lobed 

 beyond the middle, hirsute-canescent, a few of the hairs almost 

 hooked -, corolla-tube as long as the calyx. 



Coast Region : Queenstown Div. ; Table Mountain, 6000-7000 ft., Drege, 

 7841b ! (ex De Candolle). y ^ ' 



XI. LITHOSPERMTJM, Linn. 



Calyx 5-partite, rarely 5-fid ; lobes linear. Corolla funnel-shaped 

 or salver-shaped; tube cylindrical, straight; throat usually enlarged. 



