154 C. BORAGINEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Trichodesma. 



on the nerves otherwise glabrous, flowers and fruit nearly as of T. indicum. 

 DC. Prodr. x. 172 ; Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 173. T. iiiajquale, Edycw. PL 

 anda, 51. 



Throughout W. INDIA ; from Scinde, Rajpootana, and Central India to Malabar ; 

 frequent. 



Probably a mere form of T. indicum. Corolla-lobes ovate, suddenly acute, 

 twisted to the left in the bud. Anthers exsert, tips of the connective finally twisted. 



3. T. africanum, JBr. Prodr. 496; bristly with hairs springing from 

 tubercles, leaves ovate-oblong lower long-petioled, calyx-lobes in fruit cordate 

 at the base, staminal cone laxly hairy on the back. DC. Prodr. x. 173 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, iv. 280. Borago africana, Linn. Sp. PL 197. B. verrucosa, Forsk. 

 Fl^Ey-Arab. 41. 



PUNJAB and SCINDB; Aitchison, Stocks, &c. DISTRIB. Cabul, Persia. Arabia, 

 Tropical Africa to Senegal. 



Stem and leaves as of T. indicum, but more harshly hispid. Raceme* mostly 

 lateral, often bipartite -and subebracteate. Calyx-lobes $ in., in fruit - in. Corolla 

 tube l in. ; lobes \ in., ovate, acute. Nutlets % in. ; margin prominent" glochidiate. 



** Calyx-lobes in fruit ovate or rounded at the base. 



4. T. zeylanicum. Br. Prodr. 490 ; leaves oblong obtuse or acute at 

 the base hairy beneath, racemes lateral and terminal, nutlets in. ovoid-oblong 

 obscurely margined. Wall. Cat. 935 ; DC. Prodr. x. 17J : Bot. Mag. t. 4S:?<) ; 

 Benth. FL Austral, iv. 404. Borago zeylanica, Linn. Ma, it. L'O:? : faeq. Ic. PL 

 Rar. ii. t. 314 ; lliinn. FL I ml. 41, t, 14, fig. "2. Leiocaryn Kotschyana, Hvchtf. 

 in Flora, 1844, 30. 



DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON : common. DISTRIB. Malaya, Australia, Mas- 

 carene Islands. 



Habit of T. indicum. Leaves sessile or subpetiolate, bristly with hairs springing 

 from tubercles on the upper surface. Racemes usually denser, more softly villoiis 

 than in T. inaicnm. Flowers and fruit about the same size as in T. indicum. 



5. T. khasianum Clarke ; very large, leaves elliptic narrowed at both 

 ends or petioled sparsely hairy beneath, racemes forming large terminal corymbs, 

 nutlets in. widely margined. 



KHASIA ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 5989), &c. 



Apparently a stout, sparingly setose, shrub. Leaves 7 by 2 in., mostly opposite, 

 petioled, scabrous tuberculate above, rugose subglabrate beneath. Cor// mb* with 50- 

 100 flowers, nearly ebracteate. Calyx-lobes in the bud by in., rusty-pubescent, in 

 fruit 1 by f in., papery. Corolla-tube $ in. ; lobes in., lanceolate-linear. Anther- 

 cone nearly in., patently white-hairy. Remote in habit from the other Indian 

 species ; a still larger species has lately been discovered by Dr. Balfour in Socotra. 



8. ACTINOCARYA llenth. 



A slender, diffuse herb, sparsely strigose or nearly glabrous. Leaves alter- 

 nate, obovate-oblong, entire. Flowers minute, solitary on axillary pedicels. 

 Calyx deeply 6-lobed, hardly enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube short ; scales in 

 the throat 5, very small; lobes 5, obtuse, spreading, imbricate in the bud. 

 Stamens 5, filaments short ; anthers small, ovate, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4- 

 lobed ; style short, from the base of the lobes, stigma small. Nutlet* 4, obo- 

 void-obloiig, divaricate, with small spines on all sides, attached to the small 

 carpophore only at their minute lower ends. 



