34 LXXXIX. BORAGINEX (BAKER AND WRIGHT). — [LHeliotropiwm. 
thin, not crisped, very obtuse, narrowed gradually from the middle: to 
the base, the largest 14-2 in. long; petiole very hairy; spikes 
moderately dense, ebracteate, finally 2 in. long. Calyx very hairy ; tube 
very short; segments unequal, two 1} lin. long, ovate, the rest much 
shorter, linear. Corolla-tube not longer than the calyx ; lobes small, 
orbicular. Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla-tube. Style 
very short: stigma with a produced conical crest. Nuts 4; shorter 
than the calyx. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: banks of the River Shire at Mosam- 
bala, Scoét ! 
Habit of H, europeum and its allies. 
6. H. ovalifolium, Yorsk. Fl. Zgypt.-Arab. 38. Herbaceous 
from a woody base. Stem much-branched, diffuse, densely clothed with 
soft whitish spreading hairs. Leaves obovate or elliptic, obtuse, 
densely hairy on both surfaces, }—1} in. long, 3-8 lin. broad ; petiole 2- 
9 lin. long. Cymes spicate, numerous, rather. dense, ebracteate, finally 
2-3 in. long. Calyx # lin. long, white hairy outside; one lobe lanceo- 
late, much broader than the linear others. Corolla 1 lin. long; lobes 4 
as long as the tube, orbicular. Stamens inserted just above the corolla- 
base; anthers small, lanceolate. Ovary globose; stigma subsessile, 
conical. Fruit depressed globose, scarcely 1 lin. in diam, ; nutlets 4, 
hispid.—C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 150; Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 718; Giirke in Warb. Kunene-Samb. Exped. 348; 
C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 8. H. coromandelianum, Retz. 
Obs. ii. 9; Wight, Ic. t. 1388; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 
Bot. 253; Lehm. Pl. Asper. 46; var. obovatewm, DC. Prodr. ix. 541. 
H. brocchianum, Vis. Pl. Agypt. & Nub. 8, t. 2, fig. 1. H. apiculatum, 
E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 93. H. Kunzti, 
Lehm. Ic. & Deser. Stirp. 19, t. 29: H. cinerewm, R. Br. in Salt, 
Abyss. Append. 63. H. niloticwm, ADC. in DC. Prodr. ix. 541. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: Sieber, 12! Dollinger, 56! Northern Nigeria: 
Nupe, Barter ! 
Mile Land. By the River Nile, Bromfield! Schweinfurth, 913! Sennar, 
Kotschy, 146! 281! 333! 334! 335! between Berber and Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 
477! 507! ser. iii. 57! near Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 892! Broun! Kordofan, 
Kotschy, 7*! Pfund, 497! Darfur, Purdy, 65! Galabat, Schweinfurth, 2098! 
Abyssinia: Tacazze Valley, Schimper, 1580! Uganda: Fort Johnstone, Scoft- 
Elliot, 8423! British East Africa: Athi Plains, Scott-Elliot, 6557! Witu, 
Thomas, 76 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Icolo e Bengo, Welwitsch, 5435 ! Loanda, Wel- 
witsch, 5439! 5440! 5441! 5442! Cazengo, Welwitsch, 5447! Mossamedes, 
Welwitsch, 5288 ! 5289! 5290! Barra do Bengo; near Santo Antonio, Welwitsch, 
5443! by the River Kubango, Baum, 486! German South-west Africa: Ambo- 
land; Olukonda, Schinz, 827! 829! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa, Busse, 885! Portuguese East Africa: 
Lower Zambesi, Peters. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Kondowe to Karonga, 
Whyte! Tropical Transvaal ; Shilouvane (Sebolane ?) Junod, 757 ! 
7. H. Baclei, DC. Prodr. ix. 546. Annual. Stems much-branched, 
diffuse, clothed with adpressed bristly hairs. Leaves elliptic, narrowed 
