718 LXXXVI, BORAGINER. | Heliotropium 
schenoides Host (herb. no, 2622), near San Joao de Caroca ; fl. 2 Sept. 
1859. No. 5287. 
2. H. anchusanthum Hiern, sp. n. 
A silky-tomentose canescent herb, perennial or at least lasting 
for several years ; rhizome somewhat woody ; stems several, oblique 
or ascending, divaricately branched, somewhat wiry; leaves 
alternate, oval or ovate, obtuse at the apex, often but not 
always wedge-shaped at the base into the petiole, rather thickly 
herbaceous, entire or subrepand on the margin, $ to 1} in. long 
by 4 to 2 in. broad; lateral nerves about 3 on each side, not 
conspicuous ; petioles ranging up to # in. long; scorpioid spikes 
axillary and sub-terminal, ranging up to 34 in. long; flowers 
large for the genus, subsessile, centripetal, } to 2 in. long, 
contiguous; calyx + to } in. long, oblong, mostly pentamerous, 
hairy on both faces, densely so outside, the partitions lanceolate- 
oblong, erect, connivent or cohering far up in flower, less so in 
fruit, subobtuse or scarcely acute; corolla pale yellow, cylindrical, 
shortly exceeding the calyx; the tube slightly tapering upwards, 
pilose above on both faces; the limb short, glabrous, plicate in 
bud ; the folds 5, sinistrorsely convolute as seen from above; the 
lobes shallow, broad, rounded above; anthers 5, lanceolate, 
glabrous, about ;\; in. long, subsessile, inserted below the middle 
of the corolla-tube ; pistil =}, (in flower) in. long, glabrous; style 
dilated at the apex into a depressed conical tip or stigma ; nutlets 
(in one case) 3 with a fourth abortive one, obliquely ovoid, =; to 
zz in. long. 
MossaMeDESs.—In rocky maritime places near Praia da Amelia, 
sparingly ; fl. and fr. beginning of July 1859. No. 5296. On the 
sandy heights of Porto de Pinda ; fl. and fr. 31 August 1859. No. 
5295. Between Cabo Negro and Mossamedes, with luxuriant herbage ; 
fl. 3 Sept. 1859. No. 5297. 
This must be compared with H. Olirerianum Schinz in Verh. Bot. 
Brandenb. xxx. p. 268 (1888), a species from the neighbourhood of 
Walfisch Bay, the type of which I have not seen. 
3. H. curassavicum L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 130 (1753). 
MossaMeDEs.—A perennial, suffrutescent, widely czespitose herb ; 
stems prostrate, as well as the leaves glaucous-green fleshy and rather 
rigid; flowers white, the corolla-limb more or less variegated with 
purple and somewhat undulate. In muddy-sandy places about 
brackish marshes near Aguadas, abundant; fl. and fr. July 1859. 
No. 5293. Succulent. At Aguadas; fl. July 1859. No. 5435d. 
4. H. undulatum Vahl, Symb. Bot. i. p. 13 (1790); J. A. 
Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 225 (1852). 
Care DE Verne Istanps.—In sandy places on St. Vincent Island ; 
fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. No. 5467. 
5. H. ovalifolium Forsk. Fl. Agypt.-Arab. p. 38 (1775). 
H. Coromandelianum Retz, Fasc. Obs. Bot. ii. p. 9 (1781). 
H. cinereum R. Br. in Salt, Abyss., App. iv., p. bsii. (1814). 
Barra DO Benco.—By dried-up marshes and by the river Bengo 
near Santo Antonio, at Panda; fl, and fr. Dec. 1853. No. 5443. 
