﻿Lohostemon.] BOEAGiNEiE (Wright). 31 



linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 1\ lin. wide, margins scabrid ; 

 corolla 9 lin. long, widely canipanulate, pubescent on both surfaces ; 

 lobes elliptic-oblong, 3-4 lin. long, undulate ; stamens about as long 

 as the corolla ; filaments with a tuft of hairs at their base, glabrous 

 elsewhere ; style filiform, as long as the corolla, pilose. Ecliium 

 montanum, DC. Prod. x. 15. 



Vae. ;3, minor (C. H. Wiight) : calyx-lobes very unequal ; corolla 7 lin. long; 

 filaments inserted slightly above the base of the corolla-tube. 



South Africa : without locality, Sieher / 



Coast Eegion : Cape Div. ; Table Mountain and Lion Mountain, Echhn Sc 

 Zeyher, Devils Mountain, BurcJiell, 8474 ! Drege! Bolus, 3947! above Tokay 

 plantation, Wolley Bod, 1274: ! wooded slopes above Groot Schunr, Wolley Dod, 

 3360 ! top of Muizen Berg, 1000 ft., near False Bay, Zeyher, 3450 ! MacOwan 

 and Bohis, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 922 ! Stellenbosch Div. ; near Lowry's Pass, 

 Burchell, 8294 ! Caledon Div. ; rocky places near the mouth of Onrust River, 

 Zeyher, 34t8 ! Var, /3, Humansdorp Div. ; hill side, Humansdorp, about 300 ft., 

 Gdlpin, 4345 ! 



13. L. fruticosus (Buek in Linnsea, xi. 134); a shrub; branches 

 terete, pubescent ; leaves oblanceolate, obtuse (more rarely acute), up 

 to If in. long and 6 lin. wide, with inconspicuous bulbous-based 

 hairs on both surfaces ; cymes in the axils of the upper leaves ; calyx 

 4 lin. long, densely silky on both surfaces, especially near the base 

 outside ; lobes f lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate ; corolla 7 lin. long, 

 pale pink (Galpin) ; stamens all included, inserted near the base of 

 the corolla-tube ; style about as long as the corolla. DO. Prod. x. 

 6. Ecliium fruticomm, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 199 ; Bat. Reg. t. 36 ; 

 JBot. Mag. t. 1772 ; Thunh. FL Cap. ed. Schult. 165 ; SurchcU, 

 Trav. S. Afr. i. 15; Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documented 89. 

 Ecliium fruticosum, var. /3, Lehm. PI. Asper. 421. E. africanum, 

 Pers. Syn. i, 163. 



Vab. )3, bergianus (DC. Prod. x. 6) ; hairs on the leaves with more con- 

 spicuous bulbous-bases. JEchium hergianum,!!. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzen- 

 geogr. Documente, 86, 99, 105. E. sp., Drege, I.e. 121. £. fruticosum, 

 Berg. PI. Cap. 39; var. a, Lehm. PI. Asper. 420, and Ic. t. 38. E. scabrv.m, 

 Lehm. Ic. t. 35. 



South AfkicA: without locality, Villette! Forheii ! Harvey, 221! Miller f 

 Var. 0, Sieber, 92 ! 



Coast Region : Malmesbnry Div. ; Hopefield, Schlechter, 5189 ! Paarl Div. ; 

 Great Britain Eock, near Paarl, Wilms, F462 ! Cape Div. ; Devils Mountain, 

 600 ft.. Bolus, 3723 ! at the foot of Table Mountain, 1000 ft., MacOwan, 2749 ! 

 and in Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1636 l ^cklon^ 255 ! nearCape Town, Z^i/feer, 4781 ! Bolus, 

 2899 ! Pappe ! above Groot Schuur, Wolley Dod, 629 ! Camps Bay, Zeyher, 81 ! 

 Simons Bay, MacOilUvray, 571 ! Stellenbosch Div. ; Stellenbosch, Sanderson, 978! 

 Worcester'Div. ; near Bains Kloof, 800 ft.. Bolus, 2900 ! near Brand Vlei,900ft., 

 Bolus, 5207 I Caledon Div.; Hermannspetrusroutein, 300ft.,GaZj>tn,4348 I Oudts- 

 hoorn Div. ; near the Oliphants River, Gill! Uniondale Div. ; near Avontnnr, 

 Bolus, 2430 ! Var. )3, Paarl Div. ; by the Berg River, near Paarl, Drege, 

 7847b! Paarl Mountain, Drege, 7847c! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 650 ft., 

 MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 816! Drege, 78i7fi I 



Wbstesn Regioit : Little Namaqualand ; Ezels Fontein, Whitehead! 



14. L. strigosus (Buek in Linnsea, xi. 136) ; stem erect, branched, 

 leafy, villous ; leaves sessile, subimbricate, keeled, lanceolate, obtuse, 



