390 Lxxx. BORAGiNE^. [ToumefoHia. 



silky Lairs. Leaves crowded at the ends of the thick braiichlets, ohovate 

 ovate or obovate-oblong, soft and thick, 4 to 6 in- long, narrowed into a 

 short petiole, blowers small, sessile, and numerous, in large, densej termi- 

 nal dichotomous cymes or panicles. Calyx-segments orbicular, ciliute, about 



1 line diameter. Corolla shortly exceeding the calyx, the lobes broad, ob- 

 tuse, longer than the tube, in^bricate in the bud, glabrous inside, sprinkled 

 ■with a few hairs outside. Anthers ovate, mucronulate. Hypogynous disk 

 prominent or obscure. Style exceedingly short, the thick fleshy annulus sar- 

 rounding the notched summit appearing almost sessile on the ovary, xruit 

 glabrous, nearly globular, with 3 opposite furrows, but containing 4 distinct 

 pvrenes. Seeds without anv (or with a thin?) albumen. — UC. Prod, ix. 

 51^. 



N. Australia. Islands of the Gidf of Carpentaria, It, Brown, Heme; Sims Island, 

 A* Cimningham. 



Queensland. Albany Island, W. Hills Barnard Isles, itf-ftV/^V^i^; HowicVs group, 

 F, Mueller ; estuary of the Bnrdekin, Fltzalan ; Rockingham Bay, BaUacIvj. 



The species extends along the seacoasts of Eastern tropical Africa, the Mauritius, Cejlon, 

 the Eastern Archipelago, New Caledouia, and the islands of the Pacific. 



2. T. mollis, F. MueU. Fragm. i, 59. An erect not much branched 

 shrub of several feet, the branches and foliage velvety-pubescent. Leaves 

 from broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or obtusely acumuiate, otteu 

 rugose, 2 to 4 in. long or longer on barren shoots. Cymes dichotomous, 

 pedunculate, the pedicels exceedingly short, without bracts. Calyx-segments 

 lanceolate, pubescent, about 1 line long. Corolla pubescent outsule, the 

 tube 1^ to 2 lines long, somewhat contracted upwards; lobes broad, much 

 plicate, rather acute, about one-third as long as the tube, indupHcate in t le 

 bud. Ovary tapering into a short style, the stigma with a thick broad flesuy 

 ring, round a slightly-depressed obscurely 2-lobcd centre. Fruit nearly glo- 

 bular, above 2 lines diameter when full grown, containing either 4 pyrene^ oi 



2 pyrenes each one readily divisible into 2. Seeds with a rather thick al- 

 bumen. 



N, Australia. Montague Sound, A. Cnnnivgham. , i ner- 



Queensland. Burdekiu river, F. Mueller; Ed-ecombe Bay, Port Denison, ana 

 bert river, Lallacktf. 



3. T. sarmentosa. Lam. IlJndr. i. 416. A tall shrub .^j^J^ ^^jj 

 branches, or sometimes climbing to a great height, glabrous or sprinkled 

 short rigid hairs. Leaves petiolate, ovate, acuminate, entire, 2 to 4 m. lo n» 

 either glabrous or sprinkled with short hairs above, more or less P^^f *^ .;.. 

 hirsute underneath. Flowers usually white, sessile along the divaiica 

 branches of terminal dichotomous cymes, witliout bracts. Calyx-segmen 

 lanceolate, shortly pubescent, under 1 line loner. Corolla-tube angular, va 

 ing from l^ liue to above 2^ lines in length ; lobes broad, obtuse or re m^ ^ 

 nndulate-phcate, with a thick midrib, induplicate in the bud. Ovai^' tj^e 

 ing mto a short style, which is very shortly lo])ed at the top, but ;vitl;^";J„^, 

 thickened ring of the other species. Fruit ovoid-globular, slightly co 

 pressed, the endocnrn tInVV of „ i^^.,j.. ,.„ii..t.,.. *.,..f..w. .Jihnn^rh hard, ^^ 



Q ,,,^ v^w.i^i apcuuiS. rrUll OVOUl-glUi-^uu") --o •. -Mj 



pressed, the endocarp thick, of a loosely cellular texture although 'f ^' V^^ 

 4 very small real cells, and sometimes separating or separable into 2 ^-c^ 



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