716 LXXXVI. BORAGINES. [Cordia 
boid, shortly pointed at the apex, obtuse or scarcely rounded at 
the base, very scabrid and not pubescent above, shortly hispid on 
the reticulations beneath, 2 to 4 in. long by 1} to 34 in. broad, 
rigidly sub-coriaceous ; petiole } to # in. long, scabrid; infructescence 
opposite a subterminal leaf, lax, about 2 in. in diameter ; fruits few, 
ovoid, rather obtusely pointed, nearly an inch long, received at its 
base into the scabrid shortly 5-cleft calyx which is about } in. long. 
Huitita.—In wooded places at the large lake near Mumpulla, 
sporadic ; fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4782. 
2. EHRETIA Browne ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 840. 
1. E. obtusifolia Hochst. in Pl. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 652 (z., 
1842), and ex Alph. DC. in DC, Prodr. ix. p, 507 (1845), 
E. obovata R. Br. in Salt, Abyssinia, App. iv., p. lxiv. (1814), 
name only. 
Bumso.—A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high; branches sparse, rambling, 
virgate ; flowers gamopetalous, pentamerous, whitish ; fruit drupaceous, 
red. In hot bushy wooded places between Quitive and Bumbo, 
sparingly ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4785. 
Our plant differs from the type by the repand-crenulate margin 
of the upper half of the leaves. 
2. E. angolensis Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 29. 
LoaNpDA.—Leaves coriaceous, glossy, pallid beneath, evergreen ; 
flowers of a fine clear blue colour verging on violet ; calyx sub-cam- 
panulate, 5-cleft beyond the middle; corolla hypogynous, funnel- 
shaped; the limb 5-cleft, perpendicularly reflected ; stamens 5, 
inserted on the corolla-tube ; anthers lanceolate-linear, exserted by 
reason of the reflection of the corolla-limb ; ovary 4-celled ; ovules 
solitary in the cells ; style bifid half way ; stigmas 2, flattened-capitate ; 
berry 4-pyrenous, of a deep orange colour, as large as a rather small 
pea, umbonate with the remains of the style ; pyrenes 2-celled, the 
larger cell empty. In barren thickets about Loanda, Cacuaco, 
Quifandongo, etc., plentiful ; fl. Oct. and Nov., fr. Jan. and Feb. ; fl. 
again and soon fr. again. No, 5444. A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, 
branched from the base; flowers deep blue; fruit drupaceous, 
coriaceous. At Quicuxe ; fl. March 1859. No. 5463. A lovely shrub, 
4 to 6 ft. high, with the habit more or less of a lilac ; leaves glossy, 
evergreen ; flowers cymose, of a fine blue colour. In thickets ; fr. 
Nov. 1853. Cou. Carp. 760. 
Lizonco.—A shrub of 4 to 6 ft., with thinly coriaceous leaves, deep 
and afterwards pale blue flowers, and scarlet fruit. In thickets about 
Banza de Libongo, plentiful ; fl. Sept. 1858. No. 5446. 
3. E. scrobiculata Hiern, sp. n. 
A small tree; branches rambling, virgate, patent or nodding ; 
branchlets subterete, inconspicuously striate, glabrescent ; leaves 
alternate, oval or oval-ovate, cuspidate at the apex, rounded or 
subcordate at the base, glabrous or nearly so, thinly coriaceous, 
rather glossy, green on both faces, 5 to 6 in. long by 3 to 3} in. 
broad, entire ; lateral veins about 7 or 8 on each side of the 
midrib, rather slender, narrowly depressed on the upper face, in 
relief with a small pit in each axil on the lower face; petiole 2 to 
1 in. long ; flowers whitish, sessile subsessile or on short pedicels 
