36 LXXXIX. BORAGINEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT).  [Heliotropiwm. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; near Aguadas, Welwitsch, 5293 ! 
54358 ; by the River Croque, Johnston ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Chiloane, Scott ! 
An American weed, now established in many places in the Old World. 
11. H. albohispidum, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 220. A 
much-branched perennial herb. Stem woody at the base. Branches 
densely clothed with adpressed strong white hairs. Leaves sessile, 
linear, with revolute edges, the lower 6-9 lin. long, clothed on both 
surfaces with adpressed white hairs. Racemes long; bracts linear- 
subulate, persistent ; pedicels short, erect. Calyx 1} lin. long; segments 
linear, hispid. Corolla 2 lin. long; tube clothed with yellow hairs 
inside in the upper half ; limb 14 lin. in diam. ; lobes orbicular, spreading, 
undulate. Anthers subsessile in the corolla-throat, linear. Ovary 
oblong, 4 lin. long; style subulate, as long as the ovary; stigma 
subeapitate. 
Wile Land. British Somaliland: Hammar, Miss Edith Cole ! 
This species resembles H. rariflorum, Stocks, but has a longer corolla, with 
different shaped lobes. 
12. H. arbainense, Fresen. in Mus. Senckenb. i. (1834) 168. 
Perennial. Stems short, ascending, much-branched, densely clothed 
with short soft whitish hairs, Leaves petioled, ovate or oblong, small, 
densely hairy on both sides, rounded or narrowed to the base. Spikes 
dense, ebracteate, finally 2-3 in. long. Calyx very glandular, hairy, 
2 lin. long; tube short ; lobes ovate. Corolla-tube hairy, twice as long 
as the calyx; lobes small, ovate. Stamens inserted just below the 
middle of the corolla-tube; anthers lanceolate, acute. Stigma musb- 
room-shaped, glabrous, nearly sessile. Nuts 4, shorter than the calyx, 
rugose, glabrous.—DC. Prodr. ix. 537; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 146. 
Wile Land. Coast of Nubia, ex Boissier. 
Also in Egypt, Arabia, and Afghanistan. 
13. H. ophioglossum, Stocks ex <Aitch. Cat. Punj. Pl. 94. 
Suffruticose, pubescent and hispid with patent, sometimes bulbous-based, 
hairs, except on the corolla. Lower leaves elliptic, petioled, upper 
subsessile, lanceolate, sometimes sinuous, Cymes spicate, 2—3 together, 
up to 8 in. long, ebracteate; flowers sometimes distant. Calyx 
5-partite nearly to the base, 2 lin. long; segments linear. Corolla 
white; tube about as long as the calyx, cylindric, slightly pubescent 
outside; lobes 5 with 5 intermediate folds, undulate, about 4} lin. long. 
Anthers inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube, oblong, about 
{ lin. long. Ovary shortly conical; style very short ; stigma discoid, 
terminated by a subulate crest about 2 lin. long, bifid about $-way down. 
—Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 145; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fi. Brit. Ind. iv. 
149. H. ditrichum, Stocks ex Aitch. lic. H. stylosum, Franch. Sert. 
Somal. 45, t. 4, not of Philippi. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Meraya, Révoil ex Franchet. 
Also in Scinde, Beloochistan, and Southern Arabia, 
