3800 XCV. BORAGINES. 
Nuts 4, roundish, rough, hollowed out at base-—DC. Prod. x. 
p. 40. 
8. papillosum, Lehm., is a little-known undershrub, with angular stems, 
smooth below, scabrous above. Leaves sessile, papillose-scabrid above. 
Racemes spicate, secund, in a panicle; corolla blue, small.—Only found by 
Thunberg. 
9. ANCHUSA, Linn. 
Calyx 5-fid or 5-parted. Corolla-tube straight, terete ; 
limb oblique or spreading, 5-parted, the throat closed with 5 
obtuse, papillose or hispid scales, opposite the corolla-lobes. 
Anthers included. Nuts 4, in the bottom of the calyx, hol- 
lowed out at base, the hollow with a puckered margin, ridge- 
warted, rough between the ridges.—D0C. Prod. x. p. 41. 
Annual or perennial herbs, with entire leaves. Spikes mostly bracteate, 
in pairs; corolla purple blue or white, rarely yellowish.—2 or 3 South 
African species. 
10. LITHOSPERMUM, Tourn. 
Calyx 5-parted; lobes equal. Corolla funnel- or rarely 
salver-shaped, pervious, the throat nude or rarely with 5 
swellings alternating with the stamens, hairy or smooth; lobes 
of limb rounded. Anthers oblong, nearly sessile, and mostly 
included. Stigma capitate, sub-2-lobed. Nuts ovate, smooth 
or wrinkled, truncate at base, imperforate—DC. Prod. x. p. 
73. 
Herbs or undershrubs, variable in aspect. Leaves entire, mostly simply 
hairy. Flowers spiked or racemose, bracteate, often small, of several 
colours.—7 or 8 South African species, dispersed. 
11. MYOSOTIS, Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted, 5-fid or 5-toothed. Corolla salver- or 
funnel-shaped, the tube straight, about equalling the calyx, 
the limb 5-fid, obtuse, flat or concave, the throat mostly fur- 
nished with 5 short, obtuse scales ; corolla-lobes twisted to the 
left. Stamens mostly included; anthers oval-oblong, apicu- 
late. Stigma obtuse, sub-2-lobed. Nuts 4, in the bottom of 
the calyx, elliptical, compressed, very smooth, quite glabrous, 
with a minute basal depression, imperforate-——DC. Prod. x. 
p- 104. 
Villous herbs, widely dispersed in the eastern hemisphere, chiefly 
northern. Radical leaves tapering into petioles, cauline sessile. Flowers 
in scorpioid cymes, lengthening out in flowering. Corolla blue red or white, 
very rarely yellow.—A large genus, of which there are 2 Cape species. 
12. ECHINOSPERMUM, Sw. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla salver-shaped, the throat closed 
