716 LXXXVI. BORAGINE.E. [Oordicc 



bold, shortly pointed at the apex, obtuse or scarcely rounded at 

 the base, very scabrid and not pubescent above, shortly hispid on 

 the reticulations beneath, 2 to 4 in. long by 1^ to 3^ in. broad, 

 rigidly sub-coriaceous ; petiole -Ho f in. long, scabrid; infructescence 

 opposite a subterminal leaf, lax, about 2 in. in diameter ; fruits few, 

 ovoid, rather obtusely pointed, nearly an inch long, received at its 

 base into the scabrid shoi'tly 5-cleft calyx which is about i in. long. 

 HuiLLA. — In wooded places at the large lake near MumpuUa, 

 sporadic ; fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4782. 



2. EHRETIA Browne ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 840. 



1. E. obtusifolia Hochst. in PI. Schimp. Abyss, ii. n. 652 {(/.i., 

 1842), and ex Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr. ix. p. 507 (1845). 



E. obovata R. Br. in Salt, Abyssinia, App. iv., p. Ixiv. (1814), 

 name only. 



BuJiBO. — A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high ; branches sparse, rambling, 

 virgate ; flowers gamopetalous, pentamerous, whitish ; fruit drupaceous, 

 red. In hot bushy wooded places between Quitive and Bumbo, 

 sparingly ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4785. 



Our plant differs from the type by the repand-crenulate margin 

 of the upper half of the leaves. 



2. E. angolensis Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 29. 



Luanda. — Leaves coriaceous, glossy, pallid beneath, evergreen ; 

 flowers of a fine clear blue colour verging on violet ; calyx sub-cam- 

 panulate, 5-cleft beyond the middle ; corolla hypogynous, funnel- 

 shaped ; the limb 5-cleft, perpendicularly reflected ; stamens 5, 

 inserted on the corolla-tube ; anthers lanceolate-linear, exserted by 

 reason of the reflection of the corolla-limb ; ovary 4-celled ; ovules 

 solitary in the cells ; style bifid half way ; stigmas 2, flattened-capitate ; 

 berry 4-pyrenous, of a deep orange colour, as large as a rather small 

 pea, umbonate with the remains of the style ; pyrenes 2-celled, the 

 larger cell empty. In barren thickets about Loanda, Cacuaco, 

 Quifandongo, etc., plentiful ; fl. Oct. and Nov., fr. Jan. and Feb. ; fl. 

 again and soon fr. again. No. 5444. A shrub, 4 to G ft. high, 

 branched from the base ; flowers deep blue ; fruit drupaceous, 

 coriaceous. At Quicuxe ; fl. March 1859. No. 5463. A lovely shrub, 

 4 to 6 ft. high, with the habit more or less of a lilac ; leaves glossy, 

 evergreen ; flowers cymose, of a fine blue colour. In thickets ; fr. 

 Nov. 1853. Coll. Carp. 7(30. 



LiBOXGo. — A shrub of 4 to 6 ft., with thinly coriaceous leaves, deep 

 and afterwards pale blue flowers, and scarlet fruit. In thickets about 

 Banza de Libongo, plentiful ; fl. Sept. 1858. No. 5446. 



3. E. scrobiculata Hiern, .sp. n. 



A small tree ; branches rambling, virgate, patent or nodding ; 

 branchlets subterete, inconspicuously striate, glabrescent ; leaves 

 alternate, oval or oval-ovate, cuspidate at the apex, rounded or 

 subcordate at the base, glabrous or nearly so, thinly coriaceous, 

 rather glossy, green on both faces, 5 to 6 in. long by 3 to 3^ in. 

 broad, entire ; lateral veins about 7 or 8 on each side of the 

 midrib, rather slender, narrowly depressed on the upper face, in 

 relief with a small pit in each axil on the lower face ; petiole | to 

 ^ in. long ; flowers whitish, sessile subsessile or on short pedicels. 



