720 LXXXVI. BORAGINER, | Heliotropium 
wooded places not uncommonly 5 ft. high and almost shrubby, or in 
poor hot stations only 1 to 2 ft.; branches and branchlets patent ; 
flowers lilac, scentless. Plentiful, especially about dwellings and in 
the city of Loanda itself (in the Bungo quarter), flowering and 
fruiting nearly throughout the year ; July 1858. No. 5459. 
CaLumBpo.—An annual, erect, branched herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with 
violet-coloured flowers. Between Camama and Calumbo; fr. Aug. 
1858. Cox. Carp. 758. 
GoLtunco AtTo.—A herb, sometimes a foot high, in other cases 
3 or even 4 ft., luxuriating with comparatively ‘gigantic leaves. In 
hot, dry, and also in damp places, plentiful everywhere by streets, 
houses, etc., flowering nearly the whole year; at Sange, March 1855. 
No. 5460. 
Prince’s IstAND.—On the sea-coast ; fl. Sept. 1853. No. 5464. 
9. H. longiflorum Hochst. & Steud.in Pl. Schimp. Arab. n. 842 - 
(U. 7., 1837), and ex Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr. ix. p. 555 (1845). 
MossAMepeEs.—F lowers white. In sandy places at the banks of 
the river Bero; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 5291, A suffrutescent, 
patently branched, decumbent-erect herb, apparently annual ; leaves 
deep green, membranous, rather rough ; flowers white, in size and 
shape like the Peruvian species, also sweetly redolent of Vanilla. In 
reed-beds at the mouth of the river Giratl, rather rare ; fl. and fr. 
July 1859. No. 5294. 
10. H. zeylanicum Lam. Encycl. Méth. iii. p. 94 (1789). 
H. gracile R. Br. in. Salt, Abyss, App. iv., p. bx (1814). 
H. micranthum Welw. Apontam. p. 591, n. 98 (1859). 
Ampriz.—At Ambriz; in late fr. Nov. 1853. No. 5452. 
IcoLto £ Benco.—In moist places flooded in summer, near Foto ; 
in late fr. Sept. 1857. No. 5434, 
Loanpa.—An erect, annual, herbaceous-green herb; flowers whitish; 
calyx 5-partite to the base ; corolla bulbous-urceolate; the limb 5-cleft; 
the lobes subulate, spreading; ovary 4-celled ; style terminal, com- 
paratively elongated ; stigma urceolate-oblong, woolly-fimbriate at the 
apex. By dried-up marshes near Mutollo and Cacuaco, rather rare ; 
fl. and fr. April 1854. No. 5426. An annual, erect, deep green, 
scopariously branched herb; flowers whitish, turning rufous-dusky in 
drying. In damp drying-up places after flooding, near Bemposta ; 
fl. and fr. March 1858. No. 5424, A bright green, erect, annual 
herb, a foot high; leaves narrow; spikes very slender, sub-erect ; 
flowers very small, whitish. In grassy depressions flooded in summer, 
between Penedo and Conceigao ; fl. and fr. May 1858. No. 5425. 
MossaMEDEs.—Erect, annual ; flowers yellow. In sandy places at 
the banks of the river Bero ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 5292. 
5. BORRAGINOIDES Boerh. ex Ludw. Defin. Gen. PIl., edit. 
Boehmer, p. 18, n. 58 (1760). 
Pollichia Medik. Bot. Beob. Jahr. 1783, p. 247 (1784); non 
Schrank. Trichodesma Br. Prodr. p. 496 (1810); Benth. & Hook. 
f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 845. 
1. B, zeylanica. 
Trichodesma zeylanicum Br., lc. Pollichia zeylanica F. Muell. 
Syst. Cens. p. 100 (1882). Boraginella zeylanica O. Kuntze, Rey. 
Gen. Pl. ii. p. 435 (1891). 
