154 c. BORAGINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) LTrichodesma. 
on the nerves otherwise glabrous, flowers and fruit nearly as of T. indicum. 
DC. Prodr. x. 172; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 173. T. ineequale, Edgew. Pl. 
Randa, 51. 
Throughout W. Innia; from Seinde, Rajpootana, and Central India to Malabar; 
frequent. 
Probably a mere form of T. indicum. Corolla-lobes ovate, suddenly acute, 
twisted to the left in the bud. Anthers exsert, tips of the connective finally twisted. 
3. T. africanum, Zr. Prodr. 496; bristly with hairs springing from 
tubercles, leaves ovate-oblong lower long-petioled, calyx-lobes in fruit cordate 
at the base, staminal cone laxly hairy on the back. DC. Prodr. x. 173 ; Boiss. 
Fl. Orient. iv. 980. Borago africana, Linn. Sp. Pl. 197. B. verrucosa, Forsk. 
Fl. /Eg- Arab. 41. 
Punsas and SciNDE; Aitchison, Stocks, &c.—DisrRiB. Cabul, Persia, Arabia, 
Tropical Africa to Senegal. 
Stem and leaves as of T. indicum, but more harshly hispid. Racemes mostly 
lateral, often bipartite and subebracteate. Calyx-lobes 4 in., in fruit 4-4 in. Corolla 
tube 1 in.; lobes } in., ovate, acute. — Nuzlets $ in.; margin prominent, glochidiate. 
** Calyz-lobes in fruit ovate or rounded at the base. 
4. T. zeylanicum, Br. Prodr. 4960 ; leaves oblong obtuse or acute at 
the base hairy beneath, racemes lateral and terminal, nutlets à in. ovoid-oblong 
obscurely margined. Wall. Cat. 935; DC. Prodr. x. 172 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4820; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 404. Borago zeylanica, Linn. Mant. 202; Jacq. Ic. Pl. 
Rar. ii. t. 314; Burm. Fl. Ind. 41, t. 14, fig. 2. Leiocarya Kotschyana, Hochst. 
in Flora, 1844, 30. 
Deccan PrwiNsULA and CEYLON: common.—DisrRre. Malaya, Australia, Mas- 
carene Islands. 2. 
Habit of T. indicum. Leaves sessile or subpetiolate, bristly with hairs springing 
from tubercles on the upper surface. Racemes usually denser, more softly villous 
than in T. indicum. Flowers and fruit about the same size as in T. indicum. 
5. T. khasianum, Clarke; very large, leaves elliptic narrowed at both 
ends or petioled sparsely hairy beneath, racemes forming large terminal corymbs, 
nutlets } in. widely margined. 
Knasn; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 5989), &c. . 
Apparently a stout, sparingly setose, shrub. Leaves 7 by 2} in., mostly opposite 
petioled, scabrous tuberculate above, rugose subglabrate beneath. Corymbs with 50- 
100 flowers, nearly ebracteate. Calyx-lobes in the bud % by }in., rusty-pubescent, 1? 
fruit 1 by $ in., papery. Corolla-tube 4 in.; lobes 4 in., lanceolate-linear. Anther- 
cone nearly j in., patently white-hairy.—Remote in habit from the other Indian 
species; a still larger species has lately been discovered by Dr. Balfour in Socotra- 
8 ACTINOCARYA, Benth. 
A slender, diffuse herb, sparsely strigose or nearly glabrous. Leaves alter- 
nate, obovate-oblong, entire. Flowers minute, solitary on axillary pedicels. 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed, hardly enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube short; scales 1n 
the throat 5, very small; lobes 5, obtuse, spreading, imbricate in the bud. 
Stamens 5, filaments short; anthers small, ovate, obtuse. Ovary deeply + 
lobed ; style short, from the base of the lobes, stigma small. Nutlets 4, obo- 
void-oblong, divaricate, with small spines on all sides, attached to the Sm 
carpophore only at their minute lower ends. 
