46 LXXXIX. BORAGINEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). | 7vichodesma. 
Cymes racemose, arranged in a terminal panicle, densely and patently 
hispid all over, up to 8 in. long in fruit; pedicels 4 lin. long in flower, 
6 lin. in fruit. Calyx-lobes 3 lin. long, linear, densely hairy on both 
surfaces. Corolla 8 lin. in diam. ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 34 lin. long, 
21 lin. wide, pubescent on the outside of the midrib and inside across 
the base. Anthers 1} lin. long; cells narrow, widely separated ; con- 
nective 2 lin. long, puberulous on the back. Nutlets 2 lin. long, obliquely 
pyramidal, densely white verrucose all over. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Kikuya and on the road to Eldama Ravine, 
4000-6000 ft., Whyte / near Lake Elmeteita, Scott-Ziliot, 6640 ! 
4. T. physaloides, 4.DC. in DC. Prodr. x. 173. Rootstock 
tuberous, perennial. Stems annual, erect, 1—2 ft. high, hirsute or glabrous, 
not much branched. Leaves usually opposite, sessile, ovate-lanceolate or 
lanceolate, acute, 14—4 in. long, 8-12 lin. wide, with white tubercles on 
both surfaces, but more numerous on the upper. Panicle lax, many- 
flowered ; pedicels slender, glabrous or pubescent, finally 1-2 in. long. 
Calyx 6 lin. long in flower, glabrous, pubescent or with bulbous-based 
hairs ; lobes broadly lanceolate, becoming suborbicular, cuspidate, cordate 
at the base and 1 in. long in fruit. Corolla up to 14 in. in diam., white, 
blue, or white with 5 blue spots in the throat, or blue with 5 yellow spots, 
with 5 folds in the throat alternating with the lobes; lobes short, 
rounded, more or less cuspidate, pilose on the midribs outside. Anthers 
lanceolate, densely pilose on the back, 4 lin. long; awns nearly as long 
-as the anthers, flat, contorted. Style subulate. Nutlets smooth on the 
ventral side; margins inflexed and _papillose-denticulate——Vatke in 
Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 168 ; Rolfe in Oates, Matabele Land, ed. il. 
404; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 11. 7. ambacensis, Welw. 
Apont. Phyto-Geogr. 589. Friedrichsthalia physaloides, Fenzl in Endl. 
Nov. Stirp. Decas vil. 54. Borraginotdes physaloides, Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 721. Boraginella ambacensis and B. physaloides, O. Kuntze, 
Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 435. 
Mile Land. Fazokl, Kotschy, 577! Bahr el Ghazal, Broun! Mittu: Ngama, 
Schweinfurth, 2776! 
an Guinea. Angola: Ambaca; near Puri Cacarambola, Welwitsch, 
: 0} 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Urundi Hills, Scott-Elliot, 8387! 
British Central Atrica: Urungu; Fwambo, Carson! between Lakes Nyasa and Tan- 
ganyika, Thomson ! by the River Kalangwizi, Carson, 9! N yasaland; Loangwena, 
Nicholson ! Nacheri Hill, 7500 ft., WeClounie, 92! Mount Masisi 3000-4000 ft., 
MeClounie, 125! Mandala, Scott-Elliot, 8504! Blantyre, Soe eee 31! Zomba, 
Purves, 1901! Miller! Whyte! Mount Mlanji, Whyte! Mashonaland. Bryce! 
Mrs. Evelyn Cecil! Matabeleland, Eldiott !: Oates! oe 
Also in South Africa. 
This species varies greatly in the colour of the corolla and the hairiness of the 
stem and calyx, but these characters cannot be grouped in such a manner as to form 
satisfact»ry varieties. According to Meller the leaves yield an “ oily secretion on 
being rubbed or pressed, which is insipid and without odour.” 
