198 Boraginece. \Toumefortia, 



rotate or tubular, lobes 4 or 5, imbricate; stam. 4 or 5, 

 inserted on tube or throat of cor.; ov. 4-celled with i ovule 

 in each cell, style o, stigma sessile, conical, bi-lobed; fruit 

 containing 2 crustaceous pyrenes each 2-seeded; seeds with 

 endosperm. — Sp. 100; 12 in Fl. B. bid. 



L. densely silky ; cor. rotate, 5-lobed . . . i. T. argentea. 

 L. glabrous ; cor. tubular, 4-lobed . . . 2. T. WalkeR/E. 



1. T. arg-entea, L.f. Suppl. PI. 133 (1781). Karan, S. 

 Moon Cat. 13. Thw. Enum. 214. C. P. 1882. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 145. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. iv. t. 55. 



A small tree, 10-12 ft., trunk .short, bark deeply furrowed, 

 pale, branchlets tiiick, marked with scars of fallen 1., twigs 

 densely silky-pubescent ; 1. large, closely placed at end of 

 branches, 4-8 in., oval or obovatc-oval, much tapering to base,, 

 rounded or obtuse at apex, fleshy, densely covered with close 

 silky white adpressed hair, petiole short, stout, obscure ; fl. 

 numerous, sessile, cymes peduncled, spreading, with long 

 branches, silky, buds globose ; sep. ovate-rotundatc, imbri- 

 cate, densely silky-hairy ; cor. rotate ; over \ in. diam., lobes 

 rotundate, spreading; anth. sessile, large, at throat of cor., ov. 

 glabrous ; fruit size of a small pea (under \ in), depressed- 

 globose, minutely apiculate, smooth, brown, pyrenes corky. 



Sandy seashores; rare. At intervals along the South coast from 

 Tangalle to Galle; Poduvai-katti-malai, N. of Trincomalie (Nevill). 

 Fl. Dec, Jan.; white, faintly scented, anth. nearly black. 



Also on the shores of the Nicobar Is., Malaya, Australia, and 

 Mauritius ; not in Peninsular India. 



An extremely beautiful little tree, first collected here by Kccnig. 



2. T. Walkerae, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. iv. 147 (1883). 

 T. iVallichit, Thw. Enum. 214 (? DC). C. P. 2697. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 147. 



A straggling shrub, branches slender, slightly pubescent, 

 1. 2|-6 in., narrowly oblong-lanceolate, rounded or subcordatc 

 at base, much attenuate, subacute, glabrous, thin, venation 

 conspicuous beneath, petiole \-\ in.; fl. sessile, densely 

 crowded, erect and secund or divaricate branches of peduncu- 

 late cymes ; sep. 4, linear-lanceolate, cor. tubular % in. long, 

 very narrow, lobes 4, very short, spreading ; stam. 4, inserted 

 on base of cor.-tubc, fil. longer than anth.; fruit about \ in., 

 ovoid, smooth, yellowish. 



Moist low country to 2000 ft. or higher; rare. Weligama; Pasdun 

 Korale; Ambagamuwa; Hunasgiriya. Fl. Jan., Feb., and August; pale 

 yellow. 



