﻿Lohostemon.'] boraginbj] (Wright). 43 



glabrous, exserted. Echium lasiophyllum, Link, Enum. Sort. 

 Berol. i. 170. E. longifoUum, Hort, ex DC. I.e. not of Belile. 



Country unknown. 



51. L. lucidus (Buek in Linnaea, x[. 136) ; branches simple, 

 erect ; leaves sessile, coriaceous, rather obtuse, quite glabrous, 

 shining, ciliate at the base, 2 in. long, 2-3 lin. wide ; cymes spicate, 

 compound, terminal, very villous ; calyx deeply 5-partite ; lobes 

 linear, very long, densely villous ; corolla small, irregular ; stamens 

 included, fixed to the middle of the corolla-tube ; nutlets papillose. 

 DC Prod. X. 10. EcMum lueidum, Lelim. PI. Nov. Hort. Hanib. 

 1S27, n. 4, and in Linncea, v. 374. 



Coast Eegion : Swellendam Div. ; Grootvaders Bosch Mountain, Beil ^ 

 Mund (ex Buele). 



De CandoUe suggests that this may be the same as L. caudatus, Buek. 



52. L. sprengelianus (Buek in Linnsea, xi. 133) ; stem branched, 

 tomentose ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, silky-tomentose, scabrid with 

 white tubercles on the margins and underside of midrib ; cymes 

 spicate, in a terminal leafy racemose panicle ; calyx hispid with 

 long white hairs ; lobes lanceolate, very long acuminate ; corolla sub- 

 regular ; lobes obtuse ; stamens inserted at the base of the corolla- 

 tube, with a villous scale, included. Echium sprengelianum, DC. 

 Prod. X. 16. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; east side of Table Mountain near Klassenboscb, 



EcMon. 



53. L. virgatus (Buek in Linnsea, xi. 142) ; stem erect, branched, 

 glabrous ; branches virgate, the younger unbranehed, leafy, covered 

 with grey adpressed pubescence, the older almost leafless and glab- 

 rous ; leaves somewhat imbricate, sessile, erect, entire, slightly 

 keeled, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, " with very short adpressed hairs, 

 grey glaucous, subglabrous above, subscabrid with scattered papillae 

 beneath and on the margin " ; cymes spicate, terminal, alternate, 

 condensed, forming an apparent head ; bracts recurved at the apex, 

 hispid ; flowers on very short hispid pedicels, secund ; calyx hispid ; 

 lobes rather obtuse ; corolla small, violet ; tube narrow ; limb 

 expanded ; stamens much exserted, inserted in the corolla-throat. 

 DC. Prod. X. 11. 



Coast Eegion : Swellendam Div. ; Karoo-like hills in Kannaland, between 

 Kochmanskloof and Gauritz Kiver, Ecklon Sf Zeyher. 



Buek's description of the indumentum on the leaves is apparently con- 

 tradictory. 



XIII. ECHIUM, Linn. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments linear, rarely lanceolate. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped; throat enlarged, oblique, naked inside; lobes 5, 

 imbricate, rounded, unequal, erect, or somewhat patent. Stamens 5, 



