Trichodesma.| | LXXXIX. BORAGINEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 49 
248; Phil. Bot.i.32. Borraginoides aculeata, Moench, Meth. 516. B. 
africana, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl, Welw. i. 721. Boraginella africana, 
O. Kze. Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 435. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Kuka, Vogel, 43! Borgu, Barter, 770! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Arrot Valley, 4400 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1409 ! 
Abyssinia : Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 311! Beschilo Valley near Magdala, Steud- 
ner, 859! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes ; banks of the River Bero, Welwitsch, 
5303! hills near Boa Vista, Gossweiler, 81! 
Also in South Africa, Cape Verde Isles, North Africa, and through the Orient to 
Seind. 
13. T. calathiforme, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 29. Stems 
herbaceous, densely clothed with short bristly hairs. Leaves opposite, 
densely bristly on both sides, the upper ovate, sessile, the lower large, 
oblong, narrowed to the base. Cymes lax; pedicels long, slender, 
densely bristly. Calyx densely clothed with adpressed bristly hairs 
6 lin. long in the flowering stage; segments at first oblong-lanceolate, 
finally broad ovate, cuspidate. Corolla-limb 1 in. in diam.; segments 
with a large cusp from a broad ovate base. Anthers 3 lin. long; con- 
nective longer than the anthers, convolute, hairy below. Nuts ovoid, 
2-3 lin. long, with a thick inflexed entire wing, and nearly smooth 
back.—DC. Prodr. x. 173; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 352. 
Friedrichsthalia trichodesmoides, Bunge, Delect. Sem. Hort. Dorpat. 
1843, 7; Schweinf. Beitr. Fil. Aethiop. 115. Streblanthera trichodes- 
moides, Steud. ex Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 29; A. Rich. Tent. FI. 
Abyss, ii. 92. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Adowa, Petit, 414! near Selassaquilla, and near 
Jelajeranne, Schimper, and without precise locality, Schimper, 710! British 
Somaliland, Miss Edith Cole! Révoil (ex Franchet). 
14. 'T. grandifolium, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 29. Stems 
slender, herbaceous, armed with short ascending white bristles. Leaves 
thin, scabrid, opposite, ovate, the upper sessile with a broadly rounded 
base, the lower shortly petioled, 5~6 in. long by half as broad. Cymes 
lax, many-flowered ; pedicels very slender, clothed with adpressed 
bristly hairs, the lower 1 in. long. Calyx 6 lin. long in the flowering 
stage, 10 lin. in fruit; segments strigose, broad ovate with a large 
cusp. Corolla-limb 1 in. in diam. ; lobes suborbicular with a small cusp. 
Anthers much shorter than the corolla-lobes; appendages as long 
as the cells, convolute, woolly below. Nutlets deeply concave on 
the back and with a central row of tubercles, tuberculate on the sides. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: at Adda Galla and Lafarug, James 4& Thrupp! 
Dooloo, Miss Edith Cole ! and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 
15. T. Bentii, Baker & C. H. Wright. An erect herb, about 
1 ft. high. Stem densely covered with white hairs interspersed with 
larger patent bristles. Leaves opposite, ovate, 24 in. long, nearly 2 in. 
wide, hispid, and with scattered bulbous-based hairs above, simply but 
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