﻿Lolostemon.] boeagine^ (Wriglit). 41 



narrowly funnel-shaped or almost tubular, 5^ lin. long, pubescent 

 inside ; lobes very short, rounded ; stamens inserted in the upper 

 part of the corolla-tube and reaching to about its mouth ; filaments 

 without a tuft of hair or scales at the base ; anthers oval ; style 

 filiform, as long as the corolla, with patent hairs in the lower part ; 

 nutlets compressed. Ecliium eriostachyum, DC- Frod. x. 14. 



Coast Region: Malmesbury Div. ; Groene Kloof, EcfeZon §• Zeyher, 1240! 

 Cape Div. ; Cape Flats at Dnora Hooyjfe, Zeyher, 19 ! Stellenbosch Dir. ; 

 mountains near Lowry's Pass, 500 ft., Bolus, 5208 ! ^ 



Although this species is destitute of hairs or scales at the base of the 

 filaments, it aj^rees so closely in other characters with the remaining species of this 

 Section, that I concur with Buck in placing it in Lohostemon. 



44. L. Galpinii (C. H. Wright) ; stem unbranched, very short, 

 4 lin. in diam. ; leaves densely crowded near the base of the stem, 

 oblanceolate, acute, 3^ in. long, 6 lin. broad, surface uneven, 

 covered (especially on the upper surface) with soft somewhat 

 adpressed hairs 1-2 lin. long ; scape 4 in. long, hairy like the 

 leaves ; bracts like the leaves, but not exceeding 1 in. by 2 lin ; 

 panicle spicate, dense-flowered, 1 in. long; calyx-segments subequal, 

 2 lin. long, a lin. wide, densely clothed with straight white hairs; 

 corolla 3 lin. long, purple ; lobes short, rounded ; stamens exserted ; 

 tilaments hairy on their free part ; anthers oval, i lin. long ; style 

 filiform, entire, 5 lin. long, hairy in the lower half. 



Coast Region : Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek Mountains, about 1200 ft., Gal-pin, 

 4349 ! 



45. L. spicatus (Buek in Linnsea, xi. 145) ; stem simple, ascend- 

 ing, pilose; leaves linear, attenuate at both ends, the radical up to 

 6 in. by 3 lin., acute, pdose on both surfaces; panicle spicate, 4 in. 

 long, 1 in. in diam., dense-flowered; bracts subulate, scarcely as 

 long as the calyx ; calyx 1^ lin. long, white villous outside ; 

 segments linear-lanceolate, acute ; corolla 3 lin. long, campanulate ; 

 lobes suborbicular, 1 lin. in diam. ; stamens inserted near the base 

 of the coiolla-tube, 3 lin. long, exserted, with a tuft of hairs at the 

 base; style about as long as the corolla, witlr spreading hairs in the 

 lower two-thirds. Echium spicatum, Linn. f. Suppl. 132 ; Lehm. 

 PI. Asper. 435, and Ic. t. 1 ; Brege in Linncca, xx. 197; DC. Prod. 

 X. 14. E. ineanim, Thunb. in Schrad. JSeucs Jouryi. i. iii. 39, and 

 Fl. Gap. ed. tichtdt. 164 ; Lehm. PI Asper. 436, and Ic. t. 33. E. 

 sp., Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Dommente, 98. 



SociH Apeica : without locality, Forbes ! 



Coast Region : Malmesbury Div. ; Zwartland, Thunherg, Paarl Div. ; 

 between Paarl and Lady Grey Railway Bridge, Drege, 'JTSoo ! Cape Div. ; Koo 

 Berg-, ZeyJier, 2484! Stellenbosch Div.; Stellen boscB , ^^cklon ^ Zeyher, 

 Sanderson .' Zand Vliet ne^r Somerset West, Grey ! 



Westeen Region: Great Namaqualand; Hottentots Holland, Zei/?ier. 



46. L. viridi-argenteus (Buek in Linnaea, xi. 144) ; stem 

 ascending, purplish- torn entose at the base, incano-tomentose above, 



