Sericostoma.| LXXKIX, BORAGINEA (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 57 
1. S. albidum, Franch. Sert. Somali, 46. A much-branched 
perennial with short branchlets, and leaves densely clothed with 
adpressed, whitish bristles. Leaves ascending, sessile, linear, with 
revolute edges, 3-6 lin. long. Cymes about 2 in. long; pedicels very 
short. Calyx very setose, about 1} lin. long; tube short; lobes linear- 
oblong. Corolla-limb 14 lin. in diam. Nuts small, ovoid. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Adda Galla and Lafarug, James § Thrupp ! and 
without precise locality, Révoil. 
2, S. verrucosum, Beck in Paulits. Harar. 457, Bot. t. 12, figs. 
3-6. A small much-branched shrub, with densely leafy branches, 
clothed with adpressed bristly hairs. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate, cus- 
pidate, narrowed gradually to the base, 3—4 lin. long, hispid on both 
sides. Cymes lax, scorpioid, terminal, 2-3 in. long; bracts linear, 
shorter than the calyx. Calyx half as long as the corolla, cut down 
nearly to the base; lobes linear, obtuse, hispid. Corolla 2 lin. long, 
blue or lilac, pilose outside, villous within ; tube broadly funnel-shaped, 
densely hairy at the throat inside; lobes suborbicular. Nuts ovoid- 
triquetrous, acuminate, verrucose. 
Nile Land. British Somaliland: Warabod, Hardegger & Paulitschke, 
13. MYOSOTIs, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 858. 
Calyx 5-lobed, but little accrescent ; lobes narrow. Corolla hypo- 
crateriform ; tube straight, short, cylindrical, without scales at the 
throat; lobes 5, orbicular, patent, contorted. Stamens included in the 
corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; anthers oblong, obtuse or apiculate. 
Ovary with 4 distinct lobes inserted on the narrow gynobase; style 
filiform ; stigma entire or 2-lobed; ovules erect. Nutlets 4, ovoid, 
erect, bony. Seeds straight ; cotyledons ovate.—Annual or perennial 
herbs. Stem-leaves alternate. Racemes scorpioid, usually ebracteate. 
Flowers usually blue. 
= Species about 40, chiefly dispersed through the temperate regions of the Old 
Yorld. 
Racemes not bracteate s : : : : . 1. M. sylvatica. 
Racemes bracteate. 
Corolla white . : : : : : : . 2. M. abyssinica. 
Corolla bright blue : : : : : . 3. M. equinoctialis. 
1. M. sylvatica, Hojfm. Deutsch. Fl. ed.i. 85. Biennial. Stems 
slender, 1-2 ft. long, thinly clothed with short spreading bristly 
hairs. Upper stem-leaves sessile, ovate or oblong-lanceolate; lower 
obtuse, narrowed gradually to a short petiole. Racemes long, lax, 
‘ebracteate ; lower pedicels much longer than the calyx. Calyx 2 lin. 
long; lobes lanceolate; tube short, with many short spreading bristly 
hairs. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; limb bright blue, 2 lin. in diam. 
Nuts ovate, obscurely bordered.—DC. Prodr. x. 107; Reichb. Ie. Fi. 
Germ. t. 1322 ; A. Rich. Tent. Pl. Abyss. ii. 89; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 
Trop. Afr. 354; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii.19. I. arvensis, 
