Heliotropium.| LXXXIX. BORAGINER (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 41 
26. HI. strigosum, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 748. Perennial. Root more 
or less thick and woody. Stem slender, much-branched, clothed with 
adpressed white bristly hairs. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, sessile 
or very shortly stalked, up to 1} in. long, usually much smaller, with 
adpressed bristly hairs on both surfaces, revolute at the margins. 
Spikes very lax, finally 3 in. long; lower flowers often shortly pedicel- 
late and bracteate. Calyx 1 lin. long, hairy outside ; lobes from linear 
to lanceolate. Corolla-tube a little longer than the calyx, slightly 
swollen about the middle; lobes } lin. long, ovate, obtuse, crisped. 
Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers ovate, 
obtuse, crisped. Ovary globose; style 4 lin. long, glabrous; stigma 
shortly conical, persisting on the young fruit. Fruit depressed, obtusely 
4-lobed, 3 lin. long, hirsute above, separating into 4 nutlets, rounded 
not angled on the back.—DC. Prodr. ix. 546; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 
397 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 143; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 151; Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 719; Giirke in Warb. Kunene-Samb. Exped. 
347. H. bicolor and H. cordofanum, Hochst. & Steud. ex DC. Le.; 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 115. H. longifolium, H. pygmeum and 
H. senense, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 251-253. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger, 106! 108! Gold Coast: Cape Coast Castle, 
Don! Accra, Vogel, 6! 14! Brown, 355! Dagomba: Salaga, Krause! Togo: 
ae Lome, Warnecke, 19! Dahomey, Burton! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 
Wile Land. Nubia: Erkowit, Schweinfurth, 302! Gebel 0-Fik, Schweinfurth, 
2101! Hor Taminib, Lord! Coast-land, Bent! Kordofan, Kotschy, 96! 116! 
208! Pfund, 136! Eritrea: Keren, Beccari, 163! near Saati, Schweinfurth § 
Riva, 377! 526! Abyssinia, Quartin Dillon & Petit, 208! Schimper, 2212! 2326! 
Roth, 440! 441! Jur: near Majob, Schweinfurth, 1551! British East Africa: 
Ndi, Hildebrandt, 2587! Makindu, Kassner, 536! north of Mombasa, Whyte ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Welwitsch, 5299! 5451! 5455! Baum, 8! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Dar es Salaam, Hildebrandt, 1220 ! 
Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; near Sena, Kirk! Tete, Kirk! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland, Buchanan, 1298 ! 
Also in Egypt, Arabia, Socotra, Tropical Asia, and Australia. 
27. H. abyssinicum, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitsch. 1875, 16%. 
Shrubby. Branchlets sparsely strigose upwards. Leaves small, shortly 
petioled, ovate, obovate or oblong, obtuse, undulate and repand on the 
margin, clothed with dense yellowish bristly hairs. Spikes ebracteate. 
Calyx-lobes narrow. Corolla-tube hairy, four times the length of the 
calyx-lobes. Style slighty hairy; stigma shortly conical, with an entire 
or emarginate crest. Nuts smooth, slightly hairy.—Linnea, xliii. 320 ; 
Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 352. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Habab; Hildebrandt, 470B. 
28. H. longiflorum, Hochst. d: Steud. ex A.DC. in DC. Prodr, ix. 
555. Perennial. Stems erect, slender, woody, clothed with short 
adpressed whitish hairs. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, not 
crisped, clothed on both surfaces with short adpressed bristly hairs, the 
lower sometimes 2~3 in. long; petiole 3-12 lin. long. Spikes lax, 
