38 LXXXIX. BORAGINEH (BAKER AND wxicHt).  [ Heliotropium. 
476! Kordofan, Kotschy, 11! 255! Pfund, 68! 105! 448! White Nile, Schwein- 
furth, 907. 
Extends from the Cape Verde Isles through North Africa, Arabia, Socotra and 
Tropical Asia. 
16. H. hirsutissimum, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 167. 
Perennial: Stems much-branched, densely clothed with spreading 
bristly hairs. Leaves petioled, ovate-oblong, 6—18 lin. long, broadly 
rounded at the base, repand at the margin, densely hairy, with white 
tubercles on both sides. Spikes solitary or in pairs. Calyx-lobes linear. 
Corolla-tube hairy, 4 times the length ot the calyx. Stigma short, conic, 
with an entire crest. Nuts unknown.—Linnea, xlili. 320. 
Wile Land. British Somaliland: Ahl Mountains, near Damalle, Hildebrandt, 
846A. 
17. H. erosum, Lehm. in Neue Schr. Naturf. Ges. Halle, iii. ii. 
(1817) 15.—Perennial. Stems slender, ascending, densely clothed 
with short whitish bristly hairs. Leaves oblong, obtuse, densely hairy 
on both sides, narrowed to the base, the upper sessile, the lower petioled. 
Spikes like those of H. undulatum, very dense, short, ebracteate. 
Ualyx densely hairy, 1-1} lin. long; tube short ; lobes linear. Corolla 
white; tube very hairy, longer than the calyx; lobes rounded, with 
intermediate folds. Anthers inserted below the middle of the corolla- 
tube, oblong-lanceolate. Style short, glabrous; stigma conical, $ lin. 
long. Fruit globose, hairy, as long as the calyx; nuts cohering in 
pairs, not winged.—PIl. Asper. i. 54; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 
719. Heliophytum erosum, DC. Prodr. ix. 552. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Sieber, 10, ex DC. 
Also in the Canaries and Cape Verde Islands. 
18. Hi. oliverianum, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 
xxx. 268. <A densely hirsute perennial herb. Leaves sessile or shortly 
petioled, ovate, lanceolate or subelliptic, obtuse, tapering towards the 
base, }—1} in. long, 2-6 lin. wide, densely hairy on both sides, margins 
more or less undulate. Cymes 1-34 in. long, dense-flowered. Calyx 
clothed with patent dull yellowish-green hairs, 5-partite; segments 
linear, 3 lin. long. Corolla-tube 44 lin. long, pubescent on both sides ; 
lobes very small, rounded, yellow. Anthers glabrous, inserted near the 
base of the corolla, not appendaged. Style thick; stigma depressed- 
conic, minutely 2-lobed. Nutlets obliquely ovoid, pubescent, 1 lin. long. 
—H. anchusanthum, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 718. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossawedes; heights of Porto de Pinda, Wel- 
witsch, 5295! near Praia da Amelia, Welwitsch, 5296! between Cabo Negro and 
Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 5297. German South-west Afriea: Zwartbank Mountains, 
near Waltish Bay, Stapff; Namib Flats, Belek, 55; Hereroland, Schinz ! 
19. H. tubulosum, /. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docu- 
mente, 93. Whole plant densely hirsute, 5 in. or more high. Stem 
terete, up to 3 lin. in diam. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, 
up to 1} in. by 5 lin.; petiole up to 6 lin. long. Panicle terminal, 
