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BOEAGINEJE (Wright). 



[Eehvam. 



inserted below the middle of the corolla-tube, usually unequal and 

 exserted ; filameuts often dilated at the base, glabrous, decurrent in 

 the upper part; anthers ovate or oblong, obtuse. Ovary i-loh^d ; 

 lobes free, on a fiat disk; -style filiform, usually exserted, shortly 

 bifid at the apex ; stigmas small. Nutlets 4, distinct, erect, ovoid or 

 acuminate, rugose, fixed by a basal areole to the flat or very slightly 

 convex disk. Embryo straight j cotyledons ovate, flat. 



Herbs or shrubs, seabrid, hispid or canescent ; leaves alternate : cymes uni- 

 lateral, scorpioid, simple or forked, at first dense, afterwards usually elongated ; 

 bracts small, or large and leafy ; flowers blue, violet or red, rarely white. 



DisTEiB. Species about 40, in Europe, Western Asia, North Africa, the Canary 

 Islands and Azores. 



Corolla tubular, red 



Corolla funnel-shaped, blue- violet 



(1) formosum. 



(2) violaceam. 



1. E. formosum (Pers. Syn. i. 163); a shrub 2-3 ft. high; 

 stem branched above ; branches terete, glabrous, marked in the 

 lower part with the scales of fallen leaves ; leaves lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, entire, sessile, 4 in. long, 8 lin. broad, with short white 

 bulbous-based hairs on the upper surface and margins, almost 

 glabrous on the lower; inflorescence terminal, few to many flowered ; 

 calyx 10 lin. long, hirsute on both surfaces ; lobes 5, unequally 

 united ; corolla tubular, red, If in. long, pubescent outside and 

 inside 2 lin. below the insertion of the stimens ; stamens inserted 

 5 lin. above the corolla-base ; filaments unequal, the longer slightly 

 exserted, glabrous ; style filiform, as long as the stamens, sparsely 

 pilose. Lefim. PI. Asper. 418 ; DC. Prod. x. 15. E. grancUflorum, 

 Andr. Bep. t. 20; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 97 ; Hei-h. Amat. t. 195; 

 Bot. Beg. t. 124 ; Desf. Arb. i. 177, not Fl. Atlant. E. tuhifemm, 

 Pair. Encyd. viii. 663. E. regulariflorum, Ker, Becens. 11, 42. 

 E. longifiorum, Bum.-Cours. Bot. Cult. ed. 2, Sup'pl. vii. 147. 

 Lohostemon formosus, Buek in Linncea, xi. 132. 



South Africa: Without locality, Masson ! Niven, Rogers! 

 Coast Eegion : Stellenbosch Div. ; French Iloek, 2000 ft., SchUchter, 9284! 

 Stellenbosch, ^cfclon ^ Zeyher ; Hottentots Holland, Ecklon. 



2. E. violaceum (Linn. Mant. 42) ; stem herbaceous, erect, 

 hirsute with tuberous-based hairs ; leaves elliptic-oblong, 3 in. long, 

 9 lin. wide, the lower attenuated into petioles 1 in. loug, the upper 

 getting gradually smaller, lanceolate, sessile, amplexicaul ; cymes 

 scorpioid, racemosely arranged along the upper part of the stem ; 

 calyx 4 lin. long, hirsute outside, more sparingly so inside ; lobes 

 lanceolate ; corolla 9 lin. long, oblique, intense blue-violet, pilose 

 outside in the upper part ; tube funnel-shaped ; lobes rounded ; 

 stamens fixed at unequal heights in the corolla-tube, exserted ; 

 filaments curved ; anthers elliptic, f lin. long, dorsifixed ; style 

 pilose in the lower three-quarters, bifid ; nutlets ovoid, acuminate, 

 muricate. DC. Prod. x. 22. E. plant agineum, Linn. Mant. 202; 

 Jacq. Hort. Vind. i. t. 45 ; BC. Prod. x. 22. 



