52 LXXXIX. BORAGINEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [Cynoglossum. 
Cymes racemose ; flowers stalked or nearly sessile; fruit pedicels recurved. 
Corolla blue or whitish, often veined. 
Species about 60, widely spread in the tropical and temperate regions of both 
hemispheres. 
Spines on the putlets marginal and in a central row. 
Plants slender, weak ; : z : p . lL. C. Hoehstetteri. 
Plants rigid. 
Leaves less than 1 in. wide. 
Corolla 2 lin. long . 
Corolla 1 lin. long . 
Leaves 2 in. or more wide 
Spines all over the nutlets. 
Fruit 5 lin. in diam. : : : : : —o 
Fruit less than 3 lin. in diam. 
Corolla blue; , pedicels 2-4 lin. long in fruit, 
recurved : : * ° : : 
Corolla white, sometimes flushed with blue; pedicels 
short in fruit 
C. geometricum. 
. C. Manni. 
. C. lancifolium. 
iB oo bo 
. C. amplifolium. 
6. C. ceruleun. 
7. C. laneeolatum. 
1. C. Hochstetteri, Vatke ex Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 353. 
Stems short, very slender, hispid ; leaves oblong, membranous, sparsely 
hispid ; upper sessile ; lower stem-leaves distinctly petioled. Racemes 
lax, few-flowered, bracteate at the base; lower flowering pedicels longer 
than the calyx. Calyx very hairy, 1 lin. long; tube short; lobes 
oblong, obtuse. Corolla-limb blue, 14 lin. in diam. ; lobes oblong, obtuse, 
$ lin. long. Nutlets with a row of glochidiate spines with united bases 
around the margin and a row of smaller ones up the centre of the back. 
—Echinospermum latifolium, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 
89; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 114. 
Wile Land. Nubia: coast-land, 3000-4000 ft., Bent! Abyssinia: near Mai 
Mezanno, Schimper, 1447! and without precise locality, Schimper, 578 ! 
2. C. geometricum, Baker & C. H. Wright. A much-branched 
rigid herb. Stem erect, scabrid-pilose. Upper leaves sessile, lanceolate, 
slightly narrowed at the base, 14-3 in. long, 6-9 lin. wide, scabrid on 
both surfaces, the hairs on the upper surface more or less bulbous-based, 
those on the lower sometimes simple. Panicles terminal, few-branched ; 
upper flowers ebracteate. Calyx 1 lin. long, adpressed-hairy outside; 
lobes ovate-oblong, l-nerved. Corolla-tube campanulate, 1 lin. long ; 
lobes orbicular,1 lin. in diam. Anthers oval, } lin. long. Nutlets 2 
lin. in diam., glochidiate spines marginal and in a central row. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Ruwenzori, 7000 ft., Doggett! British East Africa: 
between Eldama Ravine and Mau Plateau, 7000-8000 ft., Whyte ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Zomba, Purves, 1901! 
Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1145 ! 
3. C. Mannii, Baker d& C. H. Wright. An erect branched herb 
4-6 ft. high. Stem terete, scabrid-pilose. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate at both ends, 4 in. long, about 9 lin. wide, sessile, with fine 
bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces. Panicles terminal, few-branched ; 
