Trichodesma. — Paracaryum. 789 
hairy outside in the lower part. Style filiform, glabrous. Nutlets 4, 
ovoid, scabrid, rugulose on the ventral side, margin raised, white 
and spiny. — Flow. March to April. 
O. Great Oasis (Ascherson, Schweinfurth). — D. 1. D. a. sept. 
D. a. mer. Extremely common in the Wadies and in deep sandy 
places. Plant spread flatly over the ground; flowers bright blue at 
first, but eventually bleached a dirty white by the sun. 
Local name: lusseyq; horreyq (Forsk.); hamim (Klunzinger) ; 
khodar (Schweinfurth); shok-ed-dab’ (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from the other parts of North, Tropical and South-Africa, 
Cape Verde Islands, and through the Orient to Scind. 
1101. (2.) Trichodesma Ehrenbergii Schweinf. Zeitschrift. Ges. 
fiir Erdkunde IV (1869), p. 337. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 281. 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 111 no. 750. — Borrago arabica 
Khrenberg Mss. — An annual plant, 60—80 cm high, or sometimes 
somewhat more, furnished with scattered rigid white bulbous-based 
haus. Leaves opposite or alternate, truncate at the base, pubescent 
between the bristles, up to 10 cm long and 4—5 cm broad, the 
uppermost sessile, the rest petioled. Panicle many-flowered, terminal; 
pedicels 8—9 mm long, covered like the outside of the calyx with 
stiff white hairs 1,5—2 mm long. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, 3—5 mm 
long at flowering time. Corolla scarcely exserted from the calyx, 
blue; lobes rounded, produced into an apiculus circa 1,5 mm long. 
Anthers lanceolate or lanceolate-linear; awn nearly as long as the 
cells, twisted, hairy outside in the lower part. Style filiform, glabrous. 
Nutlets 4, ovoid, scabrid, rugulose on the ventral side, margin raised, 
white and spiny. — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. mer. Between Qoseyr and Rass Benas; Mirsa Zebara; 
Wady Gadire; Wady Etit (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Arabia. 
444, (4.) Paracaryum Boiss. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-shaped, with ascending lobes. 
Stamens included; anthers elliptical, longer than the filaments and 
capitate stigma. Nutlets with glabrous or tubercled disk, and in- 
flexed or flattened, toothed margins. — Herbs with aspect of 
Cynoglossum. 
A small genus of only a few species in the Orient. 
A Annual “herbs*: seer eee teen: Fee tty 1. P. Boissieri. 
BP Shraby' plants’ * 294 PS Ame es ay ON Lal 2. P.rugulosum. — 
