﻿32 BORAGiNE^ (Wriglit). [Lohostemon. 



vfiih white inconspicuously bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces; 

 spike terminal, bipartite, short ; flowers secund ; corolla large, sub- 

 regular ; stamens longer than the corolla, fixed to the middle of the 

 corolla-tube, slightly exserted. DC. Prod. x. 9. Echium strigomm, 

 Sw. ex Lehm. PL Asper. 432, and Ic. t. U s TJiunh. Fl. Cap. ed. 

 SchulL 164. 



Coast Region : Swellendam Div, ; amongst shrabs in stony places on the 

 mountains near Hessaqnas Kloof and Pnspas Valley, Ecklon 8f Zeyher ! 



15. I. obovatus {DC. Prod. x. 10); stem shrubby; branches 

 with white adpressed hairs ; leaves oblong-obovate, the lower almost 

 spathulate, 12-14 lin. long, 4-5 lin. broad, with white adpressed 

 hairs, many (especially on the under surface) bulbous-based ; spikes 

 short, in a terminal panicle; calyx divided to the base; segments 

 linear, acute, 5 lin. long, f lin. broad, with long silky subadpressed 

 hairs on both surfaces ; corolla 9 lin. long, subregular, pubescent 

 outside; tube cylindrical in the lower 3 lin.; lobes 1^} lin. long, 

 rounded ; stamens inserted 1|- lin. above the corolla-base ; style 

 hairy. Echium spathulatum, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pjlanz&n' 

 geogr. Documented 68, not of Viv. 



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

 Drdge, 3089 ! and without precise locality, Morris in Kerb. Bolus, 5717 1 



16. L. trigonus (Buek in Linnrea, xi. 135); upper part of stem 

 and branches villous-hispid ; leaves sessile, subimbricate, channelled, 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, strigose-pilose on both surfaces with 

 raised dots; spikes terminal, usually congested and few-flowered, 

 sometimes panicled and many-flowered ; flowers secund ; bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate ; calyx hispid ; lobes lanceolate, obtuse ; corolla 

 irregular, pilose outside ; lobes rotundate ; stamens inserted at the 

 middle of the corolla-tube, included. DC. Prod. x. 9. Echium 

 trigonum, Thunb. Prodr. 33 ; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 166 ; Lehm. Pi- 

 Asper. 428; Ic. t. 36. 



Coast Region : Alexandria Div. ; Zuurberg Range, Echhn ^ Zeyher, and 

 Uitenhage Div.; Karroo, between Coega and Sunday Rivers, Ecklon Sf 

 Zeyher (ex Buek). 



17. L. obtusifolius (DC. Prod. x. 7) ; stem shrubby ; branches 

 velvety pubescent ; leaves sessile, elliptic, obtuse, 6 lin. long, 3 lin. 

 broad, sparsely pilose and at length white-punctate, ciliate when 

 young; cymes spicate, panicled; bracts ovate, shorter than the 

 corolla ; calyx 5 lin. long, divided nearly to the base ; lobes 1 lin. 

 broad, 3-nerved, with simple white adpressed hairs on both surfaces ; 

 corolla 9 lin, long, purple, pubescent outside in the upper half ; 

 lobes rotundate, undulate, unequal ; stamens included, one much 

 shorter than the rest; anthers i lin. long; style subulate, about as 

 long as the corolla, with simple subadpressed hairs. Echium sp., 

 Drege, Zwei PJlarizengeogr. Documenfe, 1 30. 



