﻿Lohostemon.} boeaginb^ (Wright). 37 



oblong, rounded, 1| lin. long ; stamens inserted just below the 

 corolla- throat, long exserted; style glabrous. DC. Prod, x, 12. 

 EcMum sph(erocephalum,Va1il, Syvih. iii. 22 ; Lehm. PL Asper. 431; 

 Ic, t. 28 ; Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 1 1 8. ErMum 

 capitatum, /3, Lam. III. i. 41 4 ; Encycl. viii. QQQ ; Roem. ^ Schultes, 

 Syst. Veg. iv. 715. 



Vab. 6, herbacea (Buekin Linntea, xi. 144) ; stems many, unbranohed, spring- 

 ing from one root ; cymes terminal, compound, cylindrical ; hairs at the base of 

 the stamens less conspicuous than in the type. T>G. Prod, x 12. 



Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div. ; Clanwilliam, near Twenty-four Rivers, 

 Eclclon ^ Zeyher. Swellendam Div. ; between Swellendam and Breede 

 River, Burchell, 7453! Uiteuhage Div.; Van Stadeas Berg, 1000-2003 ft., 

 Drege ! 



Neither locality nor collector's name is given for tlie variety, which I have not 

 seen. 



31. L. capitatus (Buek in Linncea, xi. 143) ; stem shrubby ; 

 branches ascending, pilose ; leaves lanceolate, hispid on both sides 

 with bulbous-based hairs, 1 in, by 2-^- lin. ; cymes on short branches 

 corymbosely arranged near the apex of the stem, sometimes con- 

 tracted into an apparent head ; bracts linear ; calyx 1|- lin. long, 

 very hairy outside; lobes linear, obtuse; corolla regular, red (Buek); 

 tube 1 lin. long, almost cylindrical ; lobes 1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse ; 

 stamens inserted at the base of and twice to thrice as long as the 

 corolla-lobes; style glabrous. DC. Prod. x. 12. Echium capUatum, 

 Linn. Hard. 42; Thunb. Prodr. 33, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 166; 

 Lehm. PL Asper. 430, and Ic. t. 27 ; Drege, Zwei Pjianzengeogr. 

 Documente, 102. Echium capUatum, var. a, Lam. III. i. 414, and 

 Encycl. viii. 666; Boem. ^ Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 13. Echium 

 Jiispidum, Biirm, f. Prod. Cap. 5. 



Coast Region : Malmesbury Div. ; Laauwskloof, near Groene Kloof, under 

 ICOO ft., Vriije ! Groene Kloof, Tkunlerg, Pappe ! Bolus, 4320 ! Zwartland, 

 Thunherff. Cape Div. ; Kasteel Berg, Pap^e .' 



Burchell's 6848, collected in Riversdale Div. between Zoetemelks River and 

 Little Vet River, may be a broad-leaved form of this species, 



32. L. ecMoides (Lehm. in Linnasa, v. 378, t. 5, fig. 1) ; stem 

 glabrous ; branches divaricate, hirsute ; leaves sessile, elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, obtuse, firm, glabrous above, substrigose with white points 

 beneath especially towards the apex and margins ; spike terminal, 

 congested ; bracts ciliate, pilose beneath ; calyx hirsute ; lobes 

 elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse ; corolla small, violet, scarcely twice as 

 long as the calyx; stamens inserted in the corolla-throat, long 

 exserted. L. lehmannianus, Buek in Li/maa, xi. 141. 



Coast Region: Swellendam Div.; near the Breede River, Ecklon ^ 

 Zeyher, 



33. L. fastigiatus (Buek in Linnsea, xi. 141); stem woody, 

 branched, densely and adpressedly hairy when young ; leaves sessile, 

 oblong, acute, 9 lin. long, 3 lin. wide, densely covered with adpressed 



