130. BORRAGINACEAE. 173. 



3. gerrardii Baker. Damp places. Zululand. 



4. natalensii Baker. Coast and Midlands. 



FAMILY 130— BORRAGINACEAE 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves, at least the upper, alternate, 

 exstipulate. Flowers, 4 — 7 merous, usually S merous, hermaphro- 

 dite. Petals united below, often with scales at the throat of the 

 tube. Stamens as many as petals, epipetalous. Ovary superior, 

 sessile, lobed, usually 4 celled. Style terminal or gynobasic, 2 — 4 

 cleft. Ovule 1 in each cell. Fruit a drupe or schizocarp of 2 — 4 

 nutlets. Endosperm scanty or wanting. 7 genera I2 species. 



1. Shrubs or trees. Fruit drupaceous. Style terminal. 2. 

 Stem herbaceous or woody at base. Fruit dry, of 2 — 4 nutlets. 



3. 



2. Style twice cleft. 1 CORDIA. 

 Style 2 lobed, not twice cleft. 2 EHRETIA. 



3. Ovary indistinctly 4 lobed, 4 celled. Nutlets 1 — 3, much later- 



ally compressed, one larger and winged. 7 TYSONIA. 



Ovary deeply 4 lobed. Style gynobasic. Nutlets not laterally 



compressed. Usually 4. 4. 



4. Nutlets spiny, united with style, imperforate at base. S. 

 Nutlets smooth or granular, not united with style or style 



base. 6. 



5. Nutlets depressed, irregularly covered with bristles. 



3 CYNOGLOSSUM. 

 Nutlets not depressed, margined with bristles. 



4 ECHINOSPERMUM. 



6. Corolla open. Bracts present. 6 LITHOSPERMUM. 

 Corolla closed with scales. Bracts or few at the base of 



the inflorescence. 5 MYOSOTIS. 



1. CORDIA L. "Lovulovu." "umNofunofu." 



caffra Sond. Shrub. Coastbelt and Thorn veld. Com- 

 mon. 



2. EHRETIA L. "umHlele." "umCele." "umGxele." 



hottentotica Burch. Shrub or small tree. Common in 

 Thorn veld, coastbelt scrub, and Midlands. 



3. CYNOGLOSSUM L. 



1. enerve Turcz. Grass veld, coast and Midlands. 



2. micranthum Desf. Grassveld, coast to Drakensberg. 



4. ECHINOSPERMUM Swartz. 



1. capense DC. 



2. lappula Lehm. 



5. MYOSOTIS L. 



1. afropalustris C. H. Wright. Vleis and streams. Com- 

 mon. 



