40 LXXXIX. BORAGINEZ (BAKER AND wricHt). — [ Heliotropium. 
pilose. Nuts 4, hispid.—Walp. Ann. v. 543; C. B. Clarke in Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 152. Lithospermum leucophlewm, Schweinf. ex 
C. B. Clarke, 1.c. 
Wile Land. Nubia: between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfurth, 696! 
Also in Beluchistan, 
23. H.lignosum, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitsch. 1875, 167. Fruticose. 
Stems short, woody, ascending, densely clothed with short adpressed 
whitish bristly bairs. Leaves small, sessile, lanceolate, with revolute 
crisped edges, densely and shortly bristly on both sides. Spikes short, 
dense, 3—-6-flowered. Calyx 14 in. long, very hispid ; tube short ; seg- 
ments oblong. Corolla-tube slightly longer than the calyx, subcylindric; 
segments small, obtuse. Stamens inserted just below the middle of the 
corolla-tube. Style short; stigma conical; apex bilobed. Nuts 4, 
hispid.—Lithospermum lignosum, Schweinf. ex Vatke, 1.c. 
Nile Land. Nubia: coast north of Ras Ranar, Schweinfurth, 2111! 
Also in Arabia. 
24. H. arenarium, Vathke in Linnea, xliii. 319. Suffruticose, 
much branched. Stems short, woody, ascending, densely pubescent. 
Leaves oblanceolate, rigid, about 1 in. long, 2 lin. broad, gradually nar- 
rowed to the subsessile base, revolute at the margins, densely clothed 
with adpressed white bulbous-based hairs. Spikes dense, very short; 
lower flowers bracteate. Calyx fleshy, densely strigose; lobes very 
unequal, the longest elliptic and 2 lin. long. Corolla-tube cylindric 
for 1 lin. below, funnel-shaped for 1 lin. above; lobes triangular, obtuse, 
4 lin. long. Stamens inserted near the top of the corolla-tube. Ovary 
truncate ; style slender, glabrous, 1 lin. long; stigma small, conical, bifid. 
Fruit small, scabrid. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: coast hills near Baraua, Hildebrandt, 1314! 
25. Hi. marifolium, Retz. Obs. ii. 8. A much-branched decumbent 
plant. Branches slender, slightly woody, hirsute. Leaves lanceolate to 
nearly ovate, up to 6 lin. long and 2 lin. broad, with adpressed hairs on 
both surfaces; petiole very short. Flowers in the axils of the upper 
leaves, white or yellow. Calyx 14 lin. long, hairy outside ; two segments 
ovate, the others linear. Corolia 24 lin. long, central areas thickened 
and hairy outside, intermediate membranous and glabrous. Stamens 
inserted a short way above the base of the corolla-tube; connective 
much produced above the anther. Stigma subsessile, shortly conical, 
minutely 4-toothed. Fruit hispid in the upper part.—Wight, Ic. t. 
1390; DC. Prodr. ix. 547; var. Wallichii, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. iv. 152. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal (Leprieur?), 874. Sierra Leone: dry sandy places, 
Makunde, in Limba district, Scott-Elliot, 5717! 
Mozamb, Dist. British Central Africa: North Nyasaland; Elephant Marsh, 
Scott ! 
Also in Tropical Asia. 
