﻿24 BOEAGiNE^ (Wriglit). [Lithospermum. 



slender, terete, hispidulous ; leaves alternate, sessile, ovate, 1 in. 

 long, entire, scabrid above, hispid beneath; racemes terminal, 

 branched ; flowers minute, very shortly pedicelled, distant ; bracts 

 lanceolate, acute ; calyx hispid, 5-partite ; corolla blue ; tube as 

 long as the calj'x, throat naked; lobes ovate, obtuse; anthers 

 inserted in the middle of the tube ; style included ; nutlets 2, ovoid, 

 triangular, muricate. DC. Prod. x. 74. Cynoglossum muricatum, 

 TJiunb. in Schrad. Neues Journ. i. (1806). iii. 49 ; Vrod. 34 ; Fl. 

 Cap. ed. Schult. 162, 



Central Region : Sutherland Div. ; Boggeveld, Thunherg. 



9. L. diversifolium (DC. Prod. x. 77) ; stem herbaceous, erect, 

 branched, minutely and adpressedly scabrid ; lowest leaves patently 

 and minutely hispid, oval-oblong, obtuse, flat and long attenuate 

 into a petiole, middle leaves lanceolate, uppermost linear, sessile, 

 re volute at the margins, adpressedly scabrid ; racemes terminal, 

 leafy ; pedicels short ; corolla twice as long as the calyx ; nutlets 

 ovoid, scarcely subacuminate, smooth, shining. L. hirsutum ? E. 

 Meyer, ex DC. I.e. 



Central Region : Beaufort West Div. ? Nieuwveld, 3500 ft., Brige, 



10. L. arvense (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 132) ; stem erect, herbaceous, 

 branched (especially near the base), scabrid ; leaves lanceolate, the 

 lower obtuse, the upper rather acute, adpressed scabrid on both 

 sides ; racemes few-flowered, terminal ; calyx 2i lin. long in flower, 

 up to 6 liu. long in fruit, hirsute ; lobes linear-oblong, acute ; 

 corolla slightly longer than the calyx; lobes very short, rounded ; 

 stamens inserted in the lower part of the corolla-tube ; nutlets ovoid, 

 tuberculate, rugose. Fl. Dan. t, 456 ; Ungl. Dot. ed. i. 1. 123 ; DC. 

 Prod. X. 74 ; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 174. 



Coast Region; Cape Div.; Kirstenboscli, Wolley Bod, 3611! cultivated 

 ground beyond Uitvlupjt, Wolley Bod, 1331 ! 



Central Region : Graaff Reinet Dlv. ; near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft.. Bolus, 

 122! 



Kalahari Region: Griqualand West; Asbestos Mountains, at the Kloof 

 Village, Burchell, 1686! Transvaal ; Matebe Valley, Holuh ! 



Eastern Region -. Natal ; Gerrard, 230! 



Also in Europe, the Orient and North Africa. 



11. L. incrassatum (Guss, Ind. Sem. Hort. Boccad. 1826, 6) ; stem 

 herbaceous, erect, branched ; radical leaves obovate, cauline narrowly 

 linear-spathulate, obtuse, as well as the stem adpressedly pubescent- 

 strigose ; racemes elongate, leafy ; pedicels incrassate and obconical 

 in fruit ; calyx villous outside, elongated and somewhat spreading 

 in fruit ; nutlets rugose, granular-scabrid. Guss. Prod. Sic. i. 217 ; 

 DC. Prod. X. 74. L. sp., Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Dommenie, 

 68. 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; near Lily Fontein, 4000-5000 ft., 

 Dre.je, 7839 (ex Be Candolh). 



Also in South Europe. 



