Borraginoides | LXXXVI. BORAGINE. 721 
Huitita.—A perennial herb; stems several, oblique or nearly 
erect ; flowers whitish blue. In rocky pastures amidst low bushes, 
between Mumpulla and Nene, sparingly ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 5301. 
2. B. physaloides. 
Friedrichsthalia physaloides Fenzl, Noy. Stirp. 7 Dec., p. 54 
(1839). Trichodesma physaloides Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 173 
(1846). 7. Ambacensis Welw. Apontam. p. 589, n. 73 (1859). 
Boraginella ambacensis and Bb. physalodes O. Kuntze, l.c. 
AMBACA.—A glaucescent herb, 2 to 3 ft. high; root perennial ; 
stems numerous, ascending, branched in a paniculate manner and 
flowering above ; leaves very bright green, rough ; flowers of a very 
deep clear blue colour, handsome, nodding ; calyx enlarged after the 
flowering, vesicular-inflated ; fertile nucules (by abortion) 2, closely 
connected, bearing down the aborting nutlets together with the style, 
at length tumid and disk-like and concealing them, so that the style in 
the ripe fruit is declinate at the base of the developed nutlets. In the 
elevated wooded mountainous places at the north-west of the district, 
near Puri-Cacarambola, plentiful; fl. and fr. middle of Oct. 1856, in 
company with Marsea spartioides ; Welw. herb. no. 4005. No. 5450. 
Welwitsch strongly recommended this plant to the attention of horti- 
culturists. A similar plant was collected at Caconda by Anchieta ; it 
is called there “ cafucuto ” (Ficalho ms.). 
3. B. africana. 
Borago africana L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 138 (1753). Pollichia 
africana Medik., l.c., p. 248; J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. 
Ins. p. 227 (1852). Tirichodesma africanum R. Br, ex Roem. & Sch. 
Syst. Veg. iv. p. 69 (1819). Boraginella africana O. Kuntze, lc. 
MossaMEpDES.—Leaves bright green ; corolla white, yellowish at the 
bottom, the lobes of the limb acute. In sandy places at the banks of 
the river Bero ; fl. and fr. beginning of July 1859; fr. beginning of 
June 1860. A small-flowered form. No. 5303 and Coty. Carp. 102. 
CAPE DE VERDE IsLANDS.—Near Villa da Praia in the island of 
St. Jago, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. No. 5471. 
4, B. Medusa. 
Trichodesma Medusa Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 29. 
Huiiia.—A herb, probably annual, 4 ft. high, strongly branched, 
with the habit of Echium ; stems several, leaves subcoriaceous, bright 
green ; flowers clear blue ; nutlets 2 or 3, rarely 4. In rather dry 
thickets on the Humpata plateau, rather rare ; fl. 23 April 1860. In 
company with Franchetella arborescens O. Kuntze, var stenophylla ; 
Welw. herb. no. 2508. No. 53802. 
The same plant was found by Anchieta at Caconda. 
6. CYNOGLOSSUM Tourn., L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 848. 
1. C. lanceolatum Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab., p. 41 (1775). 
Loanpa.—At Quicuxe; fl. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 5448. 
GOLUNGO ALTO.—An erect, hispid, bright green, rather rigid, annual 
or biennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, with the aspect also of an LEchino- 
spermum ; branches spreading ; flowers minute, milk-white; calyx 
5-cleft ; the lobes obtuse, hispid-ciliate ; corolla urceolate-infundibuli- 
form; the tube short, ample, dilated; the segments of the limb 
rounded-obtuse, flattened at the time of the flower ; the throat crowned 
