58 LXXXIX, BORAGINEZ (BAKER AND WRIGHT). — [J/yosotis. 
var. sylvatica, Pers. Syn. i. 156. VM. graminifolia, var. trinervia, A. 
DC. in DC. Prodr. x. 110. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, upper slopes, 8000 ft., 
Johnston, 72! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Demerki, Schimper, 1152! and without precise 
locality, Schimper, 647 ! 
Also in Europe, Western Asia, the Canary Islauds, and South Africa. 
2. M. abyssinica, Boiss. et Rewt. Diagn. xi. 122. Annual. Stems 
short, clothed with short spreading bristly hairs. Upper leaves sessile, 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate ; lower obtuse, narrowed to a short petiole. 
Racemes short, bracteate at the base ; lower pedicels shorter than the 
calyx. Calyx 14 lin. long; tube campanulate, as long as the lanceolate 
lobes, clothed with spreading bristly hairs, open in the fruiting stage. 
Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; limb white, 1 lin. in diam. Nutlets 
black, shining.—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 354. I. hispida, var. 
bracteata, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 88 ; Schweinf. Beitr. 
Fl. Aethiop. 116. J. stricta, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 207,. 
not of Link. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 8000-10,000 ft., Mann, 
2033! Fernando Po, 8000 ft., Mann, 1459 ! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Demerki, Schimper, 1146! Mount Sholoda, near 
aa Schimper, 1889! Shoa, Petit! Wojerat, Petit! Ankober, Roth, 159° 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; at the foot of Kifinike 
Voleano, 8800 ft., Volkens, 13411 
3. M. equinoctialis, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 29. Annual. 
Stems much branched, } ft. long, densely clothed with short spreading 
hairs. Stem-leaves sessile, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate; lower 
obtuse, narrowed gradually to the base. Racemes bracteate at the 
base, finally 14-2 in. long; pedicels very short, ascending. Calyx 
densely pilose outside, divided nearly to the base, finally 2 lin. long; 
lobes broadly lanceolate. Corolla-tube cylindrical, as long as the calyx; 
limb bright blue, 1 lin. in diam.; lobes shortly ovate. Nutlets black, 
glossy, smooth, lenticular, ? lin. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; by the side of streams, 
13,200 ft., Johnston, 123 ! 
14. LITHOSPERMUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 860. 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed, little accrescent ; lobes narrow. Calyx-tube 
straight, subcylindrical ; throat not closed by scales; lobes 5, orbicular,. 
imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted 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 usually 
terminal, 2-lobed; ovules erect. Nuts 4, ovoid, smooth or rugosey- 
erect. Seeds straight; cotyledons flat.—Annual or perennial herbs- 
