Lithospervium.] lxxxix. boragineje (baker and wright). 5i> 



Steni-leaves alternate. Flowers white, yellow or blue, arranged in 

 bracteate scorpioid cymes. 



Species 40, widely dispersed, mainly in the temperate regions of both hemi- 

 spheres. 



Annual; branches with adpressed hairs . . . \. L. arvense. 



Perennial ; branches with patent hairs . . . 2. L. officinale. 



1. L. arvense, Linn. Sp. PL eel. i. 132. Annual. Stems 1-2 ft. 

 long, clothed with short adpressed hairs. Stem-leaves ascending, the 

 upper sessile, linear, acute, the lower lanceolate, obtuse, subpetiolate. 

 Cymes long, bracteate. Calyx in flower 3 lin., in fruit 4-6 lin. long ; 

 tube very short ; lobes lanceolate. Corolla white ; tube as long as the 

 calyx ; limb ^ lin. in diam. Nutlets ovoid, drab, stony, rugose, 

 glabrous.— Fl." Dan. t. 456; DC. Prodr. x. 74; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. 116 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 174; C. H. Wright in Dyer, 

 Fl. Cap. iv. II. 24. 



Wile Land. Abyssinia : near Merosovva, 4000 ft., Schlmper. 

 Also in Europe, Asia, and South Africa. 



2. L. officinale, Linn. Sp. PL eel. i. 132. Perennial. Stems 2-3 

 ft. long, erect, densely hairy, simple or branched. Leaves many, 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subsessile, covered above with short 

 bristly bulbous-based hairs, slightly pubescent beneath. Cymes long, 

 copiously bracteate. Calyx in flower 1^ lin. long, finally 3-4 lin. ; tube 

 very short ; lobes linear, acute. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx ; 

 hairy outside, yellowish-white ; lobes rounded. Nutlets ovoid, pearly 

 white, bony, 1J lin. long. — DC. Prodr. x. 76 ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, 

 Fl. Cap. ivl ii. 23 ; var. abyssinicum, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 355. 



Wile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Mount Guna, 10,800 ft., Schiwper, 

 1420 ! Somak Efat, Roth, 132 (434) ! Ankober, Both, 156 (433) ! British East 

 Africa : 2 days' march from Eldama Ravine, Whyte ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : at Abori on Lake Victoria, Fischer, 

 435; Kinga Mountains, 8000 ft., Goetze, 944; Kilimanjaro, 8800 it., Volkens, 

 947! 



Widely spread all round the North temperate zone, and extending to South 

 Africa. 



15. LOBOSTEMON, Lehm. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 863. 



Calyx 5-partite, not accrescent ; segments linear or lanceolate. 

 Corolla-tube funnel-shaped or subcylindrical, not scaled at the throat ; 

 limb slightly irregular ; lobes suborbicular. Stamens inserted in the 

 corolla-tube, unequal ; filaments filiform ; anthers small, suborbicular, 

 or oblong. Ovary with 4 distinct lobes inserted on the narrow gyno- 

 base ; style filiform ; stigma small, subcapitate or emarginate ; ovules 

 erect. Nuts 4, erect, ovoid, rugose. Seed straight. — Perennial herbs 

 or shrubs. Stem-leaves alternate, usually hispid. Flowers blue or 



