Anchusa. | LXXXIX. BORAGINEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 55 
included; filaments very short; anthers small, oblong, obtuse. Lobes of 
the ovary 4, attached to the narrow gynobase ; style filiform; stigma 
entire or 2-lobed; ovules erect, inserted at the inner angle. Nuts 4, 
oblong, erect. Seeds straight ; cotyledons flat, ovate——Annual or 
perennial herbs, often very hispid. Leavesalternate. Racemes scorpioid, 
often long and leafy. Flowers blue or white, rarely yellow. 
Species about 30; also in North and South Africa, Europe and Asia. 
Perennial; stem slightly hispid . : . 1. A. affinis. 
Annual; stem very hispid : : : ; . 2. A. Milleri. 
1. A. affinis, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 63. Perennial. Stems 
erect, 1-2 ft. long, but little hispid. Leaves with many short bristles 
from white tubercles; upper sessile, ovate or ovate-lanceolate; lower 
narrower, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole. Spikes short, dense, 
panicled. Calyx very hispid, at first 2 lin., finally 3 lin. long ; tube as 
long as the ovate segments. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx; limb 
blue, 3 lin. in diam. Nuts ovoid, reticulated, included in the calyx- 
tube.—DC. Prodr. x. 44; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 87; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 354. 
Nile Land. Eritrea, at 7000-7500 ft.: near Saganeiti, Schweinfurth & Riva, 
784! 816! Asmara, Schweinfurth & Riva, 2091! Abyssinia: near Gennia, 
Schimper, 381! Shoho, Petit ! and without precise locality, Plowden ! 
2. A. Milleri, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol.i.179. Annual. Stems 
hispid, much branched, very bristly. Leaves with many bristles and 
white tubercles ; upper leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate ; lower narrow, 
obtuse, narrowed into a petiole. Flowers pedicellate, forming lax leafy 
racemes. Calyx very bristly, cleft nearly to the base, finally 3 lin. long ; 
lobes lanceolate. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx; limb blue, finally 
2 lin. in diam. Nuts 4-3 as long as the calyx, oblong, glabrous, 
areolate.—DC. Prodr. x. 49; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 88; Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 114; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 354, A. 
ryssosperma, Steud. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 88. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Chelicut, Petit. Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 1142; 
near Bahar Amba, Schimper, 56; between Mount Buahit and Mount Dedjen, 
Schimper, 740. 
Also in North Africa and Western Asia. 
A. Magdalana, Schweinf. ex Engler, Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 354, gathered by 
Steudner at Magdala, is known to us by name only. 
11. ARNEBIA, Forsk.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 862. 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed, slightly accrescent; lobes narrow. Corolla- 
tube cylindrical, straight, without scales at the throat ; lobes 5, patent, 
orbicular. Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube ; 
filaments very short; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary with 4 distinet 
lobes inserted on the narrow gynobase ; style filiform, bifid; stigmas 
terminal, capitate ; ovules erect. Nuts 4, erect, ovoid, rugose ; coty- 
ledons thick. — Annual or perennial hispid herbs. Stem-leaves alternate. 
