60 " -ICOXES PLANTARCM- 



Plate 1277. 



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ECHIOCHILOlSr LONGIFLOBUM, BentJi. 



BoRAQiNE^, Tribe Borages. 



E. longiflorum, Benth. sp. n., glabrum, glancescens, corollce tubo 

 calyce 4-5-plo longiore. 



Hab. Near Aden to tlie nortli-west, only a single plant seen, Mr. 

 Wylceham Perry. 



Serha dura, dtvaricato-ramosa, pedalis, ex omni parte in vivo glan- 

 cescens V, pallida cserulescens, glaberrima. Folia altema, sessilia, 

 oblongo-linearia v. sublanceolata, integerrima, crassa, subcarnosa, 

 majora in specimine 6-8 lin. longa, superiora floralia gradatim in 

 bracteas abeuntia. Spicce terminales, 4-6-pollicares5 tennes, rigidulae, 

 unilaterales, foliis floralibns sen bracteis nempe ad unum latns floribus 

 ad alterum dejectis. Flores dissitl, vix stricte axillares, pedicello rigido 

 calyce mnlto breviores. Calyx injequaliter 4-5-parfcifcus ; lobo postico 

 nano v, deficiente. Corolla cserulea, tnbo 4-5 lin* longo basi tenuiter 

 cylindraceo, ad fancem ampliato, limbi labium superius erecto-patens, 

 latum, 2 lin. longtim, inferius ad marginem recurvum rednctum. 

 Antherce oblongo-liueares, inclusee, filamentis brevissimis, infra me- 

 dium tubi affixce. Stylus filiformis, apice sub stigmate parvo 2-lobo 

 annularis. NuctdcB fere pyramidatse, basi subcordatse, tuberculoso- 

 rugospe y. fere muricatae, areola latiuscula gynobasi conicge affixse. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Portion of the corolla-tube laid open, showing the stamen. 3. 

 Summit of the style. 4. Nutlets : a inner view, h outer view. 



Notwithstanding some little discrepancies in the shape of the areola by which the 

 nutlets are attached, this plant clearly belongs to the genus EchiochUon, of which the 

 pre%4ously known species is a much more scrubby plant, woody at the base and very 

 hispid. The lower lip of the corolla is also much broader than in our plant, and the 

 tube shorter. — G. Bentham:. 



Plate 1278. 



CYATHOGYNE VIEIDIS, 3Tuell Arg. 



EuPHOKBiACEj;, Tribe Phyllanthe^. 



C. viridis, Miiell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 226, single species. 



Hab. West Tropical Africa, on the Gaboon river and Corisco bay, 

 G. Mann. 



