Myosotis afropalustris C.H.Wright

Stem erect, about 600 mm [as '2 ft.'] high, hispid with deflexed hairs; lower leaves elliptic-lanceolate, much attenuate below, upper ovate, rounded at the base, hispid with usually bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces; inflorescence much-branched; calyx 2–3 mm [as '1-1 1/2 lin.'] long, enlarging in fruit, with adpressed curved (but not hooked) hairs outside; lobes lanceolate, 3-nerved; corolla blue, 3 mm [as '1 1/2 lin.'] in diam.; tube about as long as the calyx; lobes shortly oblong or suborbicular, obtuse; throat-scales slightly bilobed, yellow, pubescent; stamens inserted near the top of the corolla-tube; anthers oblong; connective produced above into an obtuse appendage; style as long as the corolla-tube; nutlets dorsally compressed, smooth. Var.?, glabra C.H.Wright; leaves glabrous beneath except near the apex.