24 LXXXIX. BORAGINEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [ Zhretia. 
sparingly setose, beneath and on margin more so; petiole 2 lin. long. 
Panicle terminal ; branches minutely reddish tomentose ; pedicels short. 
Calyx ? lin. long, puberulous outside; lobes oblong, obtuse, ciliate. 
Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, 2 lin. long; lobes reflexed, oblong, 14 lin. 
long. Stamens shorter than the corolla; filaments glabrous. Ovary 
conical ; style 3 lin. long, including the 1 lin. long arms. 
Nile Land. Somaliland near Meid, in the region of Mount Ahl, about 3600 ft., 
Hildebrandt, 1517! 
12. E. ameena, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 248, t. 41. 
A shrub; branches erect, robust, terete, glabrous, ashy-white. Leaves 
obovate, truncate and coarsely crenate-toothed at the apex, attenuate 
into a short petiole, 2-24 in. long, 10-15 lin. wide, dark green and 
scabrid above, hoary pubescent beneath. Panicles terminal on short 
branches, pubescent; ultimate branches racemose. Calyx 5-partite, 
pubescent, 1 lin. long; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla rotate, 3 lin. long; 
lobes 5, oblong, acute. Stamens 5, inserted in the corolla-throat and as 
long as the lobes ; filaments compressed subulate, glabrous ; anthers ob- 
long, at the apex shortly, at the base deeply 2-lobed. Ovary oblong-globose, 
glabrous ; style straight, cylindrical, 2-fid about a }-way down ; stigmas 
incrassate, truncate, umbilicate. Fruit globose, glabrous, foveolate, 
enclosing two 2-celled, 2-seeded pyrenes.—Giirke in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. 
C. 385; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 5. #. mossambicensis, 
Klotzsch, }.c. 249, t. 42 ; Giirke, 1. c. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi: Tete, Peters, 
Kirk ! Sena, Peters. British Central Africa : Matabeleland; near Enkeldorn, Hon. 
Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 89! Ngamiland ; Kwebe, Lugard, 36 ! 37! Kwebe Hills, 3400 ft., 
Mrs. Lugard, 48! 
Also in South Africa. 
13. E. rosea, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 461. An erect shrub, 
3-7 ft. high; bark grey; branches slender, terete, yellowish-grey 
tomentose. Leaves oblong or almost rhomboid, 14-2} in. long, obtusely 
or shortly cuspidate, narrowed to the base, coriaceous, quite entire, pube- 
scent on both surfaces. Cymes lax, many-flowered. Calyx finely hairy, 
14 in. long; teeth 5, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the tube. 
Corolla rose-red ; tube 2 lin. long ; lobes 5, lanceolate, about half as long 
as the tube, 3 lin. wide, obtuse. Stamens 5, rather far exserted. 
Pistil 3 lin. long. Fruit globose, 4 “cm.” (mm.?) in diam. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: East Uluguru, Tununguo, 500- 
600 ft., Stuklmann, 8713, and without precise locality, Stuhlmann, 8961. 
14. E. coerulea, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 312,461. A shrub 
about 13 ft. high; bark pale grey. Leaves very irregular in outline but 
more or less broadly obovate, about 2 in. long, 14 in. wide, rounded toa 
small cusp at the apex or emarginate, narrowed to the base, entire, 
pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole 3-6 lin. long, downy. Cymes many- 
flowered ; branches densely pubescent; pedicels about 2 lin. long. 
Calyx 1} lin, long, pubescent, cut down nearly to the base; lobes 5, 
