42 LXXXIX. BORAGINEZ (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [/eltotropium. 
ebracteate, sometimes up to 6-9 in. long. Calyx ? lin. long, hairy out- 
side; lobes oblong, obtuse. Corolla 2-3 times as long as the calyx; tube 
subeylindric, densely pubescent outside; lobes ovate, acute, undulate. 
Anthers inserted above (not below as 4.DC. states) the middle of the 
corolla-tube. Ovary ovoid ; style filiform, glabrous ; stigma ovoid-coniec. 
Fruit globose, 1 lin. in diam.; nutlets 4, glabrous, rugose—Vatke in 
Linnea, xliii. 317; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 720. Heliophytum 
longiflorum, A.DC. le. 
Wile Land. Nubia: Hor Tamanib, Zord! between Suakin and Berber, 
Schweinfurth, 289! 409! Abyssinia, Plowden! Somaliland: Boobi, James & 
Thrupp! British East Africa; Lake Rudolph, Wellay! Ndi, Hildebrandt, 2634! 
Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 1982! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes: at the mouth of the River Giraul, 
Welwitsch, 5294! banks of the River Bero, Welwitsch, 5291 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Vidunda Mountains, Goetze, 416! 
Portuguese East Africa: near Lupata, Kirk ! 
Also in Arabia. 
29. H. Steudneri, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 167. Peren- 
nial. Stems slender, virgate, woody, densely clothed with short ad- 
pressed whitish hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 15 lin. long, 6 lin. 
broad, slightly crisped at the edge, densely pubescent on both surfaces ; 
petioles 3 lin. long. Spikes short, dense, ebracteate. Calyx 1 lin. 
long, densely hairy; tube short; lobes linear, obtuse. Corolla-tube 
twice as long as the calyx, hairy; lobes small, oblong. Stamens 
inserted above the middle of the corolla-tube. Style slightly pilose or 
glabrous ; stigma produced at the apex, obscurely bilobed. Fruit not 
longer than the calyx; nutlets 4.—Linnea, xliii. 318, 320; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 352; Schweinf. in Ghika, Pays des Somalis, 
Zeit: 
Nile Land. Nubia: Erkowit Mountain, Schweinfurth, 793! Eritrea: Bogos, 
6000 ft., Hildebrandt, 469, Beccari, 145; between Saganciti and Acrur, 6000- 
7000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 999! Somaliland: by the River Boholodimu, 
Ghika, British Kast Africa: Duruma; Tchamtei, Hildebrandt, 2338. 
30. Hl. dissimile, V7. H. Br. Perennial? about 24 ft. high; 
branches herbaceous, with spreading pubescence. Leaves spreading, 
13-24 in. long, 3-6 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 
tapering to an acute base, finely pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole 
1-2 lin. long. Cymes 2-branched ; peduncles 3—4 in. long, spreadingly 
pubescent ; branches 14-2} in. long; flowers sessile. Sepals 14-2 lin. 
long, erect, linear, obtuse, spreadingly pubescent. Corolla 3 lin. or 
rather more in diam., white; tube 24 lin. long, % lin. in diam., 
cylindric, adpressed pubescent ; limb 5-lobed to about half-way down ; 
lobes 1 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong or subquadrate, very obtuse or 
almost truncate, glabrous. Fruit unknown. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; Kwebe Hills, 3400 ft.. 
in dry sandy places, Mrs. Lugard, 77! Lugard, 139! 
Near H. longiflorum, Hochst. & Steud., but calyx-segments much longer and 
corolla larger. 
