Cordia. } LXXXIX. BORAGINEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 17 
pubescent beneath, crenate or entire in the upper half ; lateral nerves 
about 5 on each side; petiole 4—6 lin. long, pubescent. Cymes few- 
flowered. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 4 lin. long, not sulcate, slightly 
pubescent outside, densely silky inside and on the margins; lobes 
broadly ovate, acuminate, scarious. Corolla-tube cylindrical, 34 lin. long ; 
lobes 5, obovate, obtuse, 24 lin, long. Filaments much shorter than the 
corolla-lobes, hairy below. Ovary ovoid, gradually tapering upwards; 
style deeply bipartite ; ultimate branches linear, 2} lin. long. Fruit 
ovoid, 6 lin. long, seated upon the enlarged woody campanulate 
crenately toothed calyx.—D0C. Prodr. ix.479. C. senegalensis, var. Pelida, 
Hochst. in Schimp. Exsice, 2180, not of DC. C. obovata, Baker in Kew 
Bulletin, 1894, 28, not of Balf. f. C. Bakeri, Britten in Journ. Bot. 1895, 
88, 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Samen; near Jaja, Schimper, 2180! and without 
precise locality, Schimper, 192! Blue Nile, near Sheikh Talha Village, Muriel, 
L82! 
Also in Egypt. 
This is very closely allied to that state of C. Rothii, Roem. & Schultes, described 
by Klotzsch as C. quercifolia. 
28. C. guineensis, Zhonn. in Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 
128. A shrub 6 ft. high or rather more, very much branched, erect ; 
branches terete, scabrid-pubescent. Leaves alternate, elliptic, obtuse 
with a reflected mucro, subentire, shortly scabrid, 2~3 in. long, the 
younger remotely denticulate ; veins prominent beneath ; petiole short, 
terete. Panicle axillary, shortly corymbose; peduncle as long as the 
petiole; flowers polygamous. Hermaphrodite flowers: Calyx tubular, 
constricted at the mouth, striate-rugose, slightly pubescent outside, 
densely silky tomentose within; teeth 5, setaceous, marcescent. Corolla 
salver-shaped, pale yellow, opening at night, sweet-smelling ; tube as 
long as the calyx; lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, recurved. Stamens 5; 
filaments adnate tothe middle of the corolla-tube and scarcely longer 
than it in the hermaphrodite flowers, as long as the lobes in the male, 
pubescent. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, tapering into a style as long as the 
corolla, Fruit as large as a gooseberry, ovoid, subacuminate, glabrous, 
y teapastanes nearly to the middle by the calyx, 1-seeded.—DC. Prodr. ix. 
80. 
Lower Guinea. (Guinea: by the sea-shore, Thonning. 
29. C. quarensis, Giirke in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 335. A small 
tree ; branchlets subtomentose or pubescent. Leaves broad ovate, obtuse, 
2-22 in. long, 14-21 in. broad, rounded at the base, obsoletely toothed 
or entire, scabrid above, pubescent beneath; petiole 4—9 lin. long. 
Flowers dioicous, arranged in few-flowered cymes, 3-4 of which form a 
panicle, Calyx of male flowers between campanulate and turbinate, 
about 4 lin. long, tomentose outside; teeth 3-5, unequal, deltoid. 
Corolla pale yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens shorter than 
YOL. IV.—sEC. 2 c 
