﻿6 BORAGiNE^ (Wriglit). ^ [Ehi-etia. 



branched shrub ; branches terete, ashy-grey, sparingly tubercled ; 

 branchlets pubescent; leaves obovate, up to 4^ by 2^ in., cuneatc 

 at the base, rounded or acute at the apex, hispid above, tomentose 

 beneath ; cymes corymbose, pseudo-dichotomous, terminal ; calyx 

 pubescent ; lobes oblong, obtuse ; corolla rotate, three times as long 

 as the calyx ; lobes oblong, rather acute, puberulous on the margin ; 

 stamens inserted in the corolla-throat; ovary oblong-ovoid, 4-celled, 

 4-ovuled ; style straight, cylindrical ; stigma capitate ; berry globose- 

 ovoid, glabrous ; pyrenes 2, bony, 2-celled, 2-seeded. 



Kalahaei Eegiox : Transvaal ; Avoca, near Baibertou, 1900 ft., Galpin, 

 1242 ! 



Also in Tropical East Africa, northwards to Mt. KilimaDJaro. 



III. TOTIRNEFORTIA, Linn. 



Calt/z o-partite ; lobes linear, lanceolate or oblong, imbricate or 

 open. Gorolla-tuhe cylindrical with a slight swelling at the insertion 

 of the stamens, naked in the throat ; lobes 5, imbricate or indupli- 

 cate, sometimes wide and plicate or undulate, sometimes narrowly 

 acuminate, patent. Stamens 5, included ; filaments short ; anthers 

 ovate, oblong or lanceolate, apieulate or blunt. Disk scarcely any 

 or cup-shaped. Ovary entire, 4-celled ; style terminal, simple, with 

 a stigmatic ring beneath the obtusely 2-Iobed apex, rarely stigmatic 

 at the very apex. Drupe small ; exocarp fleshy or corky ; pyrenes 4, 

 usually distinct, straight or incurved, rarely connate in pairs or 

 consolidated into a 4-celled putamen. Seeds pendulous or oblique, 

 straight, incurved or almost horse-shoe shaped ; albumen fleshy, 

 copious or sparse ; embryo straight or curved ; cotj'ledons ovate or 

 elliptic, flat or plano-convex ; radicle short. 



Trees or sometimes climbing shrubs, rarely suffruticose ; leaves alternate, quite 

 entire ; flowers rather small ; cymes usually dichotomously corymbose, terminal, 

 many-flowered. 



DiSTRiB. Species about 100, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



^ 1. T. tuberculosa (Cham, in Linnjea, iv. 467) ; stem suffruticose, 

 / erect, branched (usually from the base), with short adpressed white 

 hairs; leaves shortly petiolate, lanceolate, sinuate-undulate, acute, 

 scabrid on both sides with short bulbous-based hairs, usually 8 by 

 3 lin. ; cymes terminal, usually bifid, up to 5 in. long ; calyx-lobes 

 ovate, acute; corolla white; tube 3 lin. long, constricted in the 

 lower half ; lobes ovate, acuminate ; fruit ellipsoid, glabrous, crested 

 with tubercles when dry. Brer/e, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 

 54 ; DC. Prod. ix. 528. T. tubercularis, Brine, I.e., 57, 59, 63, 

 226. ./ ^ > 1 . ) 



Var 3, macrophylla (C. H. Wright) ; leaves up to 14 by 5 lin. ; petioles up 

 to 9 lin. long. ^ 



Central Region: Calvlnia Div.; between bospers Plaats and Springbok 

 Kuil River, Zexjlier, 1236 ; Prince Albert Div. ; Gamka River, Mund fr Maire 

 (ex Cftamisso); near Zwartbnlletje, Drege (ex E. Meyer). Colesberg Div • 

 Colesberg, Shaw, 32! Ih-^gc, 7836a! Victoria West; Niuuwveld, between Bnik 



