26 LXXXIX. BORAGINEZ (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [ Hhretia. 
Fruit enclosing 4 separable 1-seeded pyrenes.—DC. Prodr. ix. 508; 
A.DC. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 sér. i. 581. 
Upper Guinea: Sierra Leone: Talla hills, Scott-Elliot, 4856! 4920! 
Bafodeya Highlands, Scott-Elliot, 5645! near Bumban, Sectt-Elliot, 5728 ! 
Liberia: Cape Palmas, Vogel, 20! Gold Coast: Accra, Brown, 372! Vogel! 
Aquapim, Fogel! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 82! 370! Lagos: Thaki, Denton, 
24! Abeokuta, Irving, 52! Jasohe (Jaoke), Irving, 139! Phillips, 34! Barter, 
3388! Millen, 98! Punch, 2) Interior, Rowland ! Southern Nigeria : Aboh, Barter, 
287! Cameroons: Rio del Rey, Johnston; Yaunde, Zenker, 1483! Bipinde,. 
Zenker, 2119! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Maan, 1124! 
Also reported from Madagascar. 
18. E. scrobiculata, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 716. A 
small tree; branches virgate, patent or nodding; branchlets subterete, 
inconspicuously striate, glabrescent. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, 
ovate or ovate-oblong, 5-6 in. long, 3-3} in. wide, cuspidate, rounded 
or subcordate at the base, entire, glabrous or nearly so, thinly coriaceous ;. 
lateral nerves 7—8 on each side, with a small pit in each of the axils on 
the lower face; petiole 4—6 lin. long. Cymes 8 in. in diam., terminal ;. 
flowers sessile or shortly stalked, pilose-puberulous. Calyx campanu- 
late, 1 lin. long, puberulous; lobes 5, deltoid. Corolla whitish, broadly 
funnel-shaped ; tube as long as the calyx; lobes ovate, oblong, obtuse, 
1} lin. long, reflexed. Stamens 5; filaments as long as the corolla- 
lobes. Ovary ovoid. 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island: maritime part of the island, in a wooded 
place, only one tree seen, Welwitsch, 5465 ! 
19. E. divaricata, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 28. A small 
tree, with laxly thinly hairy branchlets. Leaves oblong, subobtuse, 
membranous, 3-4 in. long, smooth, glabrous except on the nerves, 
deltoid at the base ; petiole short, slender. Cymes very lax and ample; 
branchlets slender, divaricate, pubescent ; pedicels very short. Calyx 
puberulous ; tube } lin. long; segments narrowly lanceolate, acute. 
Corolla 3 lin. in diam.; tube short; lobes oblong, obtuse, 14 lin. long. 
Stamens as long as the corolla-lobes; anthers oblong. Ovary conic; 
style about 1 lin. long, branches ? lin. long, obtuse. Drupe not seen. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; near Chiradzulu (not 
Ischizadruaro, as originally quoted) Mountain, 3000 ft., Kirk / 
20. E. Goetzei, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 311,461. An erect 
shrub or tree 26-32 ft. high. Leaves shortly petioled, broadly ovate, 
24-3 lin. long, acute, narrowed to the base, entire, coriaceous, scabrid 
above, pubescent beneath. Cymes lax, many-flowered. Calyx 1} lin. 
long; lobes 5, lanceolate, obtuse. Corolla white, 3 lin. long; lobes. 
6-7, lanceolate, obtuse, as long as the tube. Stamens 6-7, short; 
anthers lanceolate. Ovary glabrous; style short, thick. 
Mozamb. Dist. (erman East Africa: Khutu; on thinly wooded steppes by 
the Mgeta River, near Kisaki, 500 ft., Goetze, 128! 
