﻿Lilhospermum.] boeaginea: (Wright) 21 



naked or gibbous within, or with 5 folds intruded from the outside ; 

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

 tube, included ; filaments short ; anthers oblong, obtuse or with the 

 connective very shortly produced. Ovai-y with 4 separate lobes on a 

 flat disk'; style filiform or rather thick ; stigmas 2, terminal or over- 

 topped by a short entire or bifid apiculus, very rarely annular beneath 

 the terminal apiculus ; ovule erect. Nutlets 4, or by abortion fewer, 

 erect, ovoid or acuminate, usually stony, smooth or rugose, fixed by 

 a flat or very slightly concave base to the disk ; areole flat, basal or 

 slightly oblique. Seed straight ; cotyledons flat. 



Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs, roughly canesccnt or hispid ; leaves altcruate ; 

 flowers white, yellow, blueisb or violet, solitfiry In the axils of the upper leaves, or 

 the upper ia leafy spikes, racemes or cymes. 



DisTRiB. Species about 40, chiefly in the extra-tropical regions of the northern 

 hemisplierc, a few in western South America. 

 Branches with patent hairs : 



Upper leaves narrowly lanceolate, under 1 in. long ... (1) papillosum. 

 Upper leaves broadly lanceolate or oblong-lauccolate, 

 over 1 in. long : 



Veins of leaves not prominent beneath : 

 Leaves obtuse : 



Hairs on leaves bulbous-based (2) scahram. 



Hairs on leaves not bulbous-based ... ... (3) affine. 



Leaves acute ... ... ... ... ... (4) hirsutum. 



Veins of leaves prominent beneath ... ... (5) officinale. 



Branches with adpressed hairs : 

 Perennials : 



Nutlets rugose : 



Calyx as long as the corolla-tube ... ... (6) cinereum. 



Calyx half as long as the corolla-tube (7) ioornatum. 



Nutlets muricate (8) flexuosum. 



Nutlets smooth ... (9) diversifolium. 



Annuals : 



Leaves lanceolate; nutlets tuberculate ... ... (10) arvense. 



Leaves obovate; nutlets granular-scabrid (11) incrassatum. 



7 1. L. papillosum (Thunb. Prod. 34) ; stem herbaceous, slightly 

 branched, slender, ascending, 6 in. high, hirsute ; leaves sessile, the 

 lower ovate-oblong, the upper lanceolate, 10 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, 

 gradually getting smaller upwards, obtuse, villous, margins revolute ; 

 racemes terminal, congested; calyx 2 lin. long, hispid especially 

 outside ; lobes oblong, \ lin. broad, subobtuse ; corolla white ; tube 

 as long as the calyx ; lobes elliptic, 1-^- lin. long ; anthers oblong, 

 f lin. long ; style cylindrical ; nutlets rugose. Thunb. in Schrad. 

 Neues Journ. i. iii. 44 ; Fl. Gap.ed. Schult. 161 ; Lehm. PL Asper. 

 329 ; Drege, Zwei FJlanzengeogr. Documente, 47 ; DC. Prod, x. 

 74. 



Vab. /3, ambigunm (DC. Prod. x. 74) ; stem erect, less hispid and r.iccmes 

 more congested than in the type. L. paipiUosum, E. Meyer in Dreje, Zwei 

 FJlanzengeogr. Documente, 136. 



South Africa : without locality ; var. /3, Krehs. 



Coast Region : Alexandria Div. ; Zuurberg Range, 2000-3000 ft,, Brtje ! 

 Queenstown Div. ; mountain sides, Queenstown, 3600-3800 ft., Qalpin, 1571! 

 Cathcart Div. ; Goshen, Wiiidvogel Berg, Banr, y48 ! British Kaffraria ; without 



