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36. L. pubiflorus (C. H. Wright) ; a shrub ; branches virgate, 

 terete, adpressed pilose ; leaves oblanceolate, acute^ up to 15 by 

 3 lin., with white adpressed hairs on both surfaces, a few hairs 

 bulbous-based, pilose on the narrow basal part ; cymes in a terminal 

 congested panicle ; calyx 3|- lin. long, silky outside, 5-partite ; lobes 

 lanceolate, acute, f lin. wide ; corolla funnel-shaped, hairy outside in 

 bud and permanently on the midribs, 6 lin. in diam. ; lobes oblong, 

 obtuse, 3 lin. long, 2 lin, broad ; stamens inserted in the corolla- 

 throat ; filaments densely hairy at the base, 3J- lin, long ; style 

 6 lin, long, glabrous. 



Centeal Region : Graaff Reinet Div. ; eastern side of Care Mountain, near 

 Graafi Reinet, 3900 ft., Bolus, 698 ! 



37. L. curvifolius (Buek in Linnsea, xi. 137) ; sfem woody, 

 much branched ; branches villous ; leaves sessile, lanceolate, rather 

 obtuse, incurved-erect, keeled, recurved at the apex, the younger 

 very acute and silky-canescent, the older hispid with patent hairs on 

 both sides ; cymes congested, terminal, few-flowered ; calyx silky- 

 canescent ; lobes lanceolate ; corolla twice as long as the calyx ; 

 stamens fixed to the middle of the corolla-tube, included. hO. 

 Prod. X. 9. 



Coast Region : Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek Mountains, Echlon ^ Zeyher ! 

 Zwartberg, Echlon 8f Zeyher, 



38. L. alopecuroideus (C. H, Wright) ; stem herbaceous, erect, 

 unbranched, glabrous or rarely with a few adpressed hairs at the 

 apex ; leaves lanceolate, attenuate towards both ends, the radical 

 1 ft. or more long, 12-15 lin. wide, the upper much smaller, with 

 bulbous-based hairs near the apex on both surfaces and on the 

 margins, otherwise glabrous ; spike terminal, dense, 5 in. long, 1 in. 

 in diam.; calyx-lobes ^\ lin. long, |- lin. wide, densely white villous 

 outside, linear, acuminate ; corolla slightly longer than the calyx ; 

 lobes rounded ; stamens inserted above the middle of the corolla- 

 tube, much exserted; filaments with patent hairs scattered along 

 the lower part ; style subulate, longer than the stamens, hairy on 

 the lower two-thirds. Echium alopecuroideum, DC. Prod. x. 15. 

 JE. imniculatum, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfianzengeogr. Documentey 

 113, not ofThunb. 



Coast Region : Malmesbury Div. ; between Groene Kloof (Mamre) and 

 Sdldanha Bay, under 500 ft., Dre^e/7Q54 ! 



39. L. latifolius (Buek in Linnsea, xi. 147) ; stem 1 ft. high, 

 ascending, angular, almost glabrous at the base, villous with very 

 soft white hairs in the upper part ; radical leaves 1-1 f in, wide at 

 the middle, ovate-lanceolate, attenuate towards both ends, petiolate, 

 scabrid with bulbous-based hairs towards the margin on both surfaces, 

 elsewhere glabrous ; cauline leaves sessile, lanceolate, obtuse, with 

 scattered bulbous-based hairs ; inflorescence oblong-ovoid j bracts as 



