Borraginoides] Lxxxvi. boragine/E. 721 



HuiLLA. — A perennial herb ; stems several, oblique or nearly 

 erect ; flowers whitish blue. In rocky pastures amidst low bushes, 

 between Mumpulla and Nene, sparingly ; tt. Oct. 1859. No. 5301. 



2. B. physaloides. 



Frledriclisthalia phjjsalokles Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. 7 Dec, p. 54 

 (1839). Trichodesina 2}hi/salo ides Alph. DC. in DO. Prodr. x. p. 173 

 (1846). T. Amhacemis Welw. Apontam. p. 589, n. 73 (1859). 

 Boraginella amhacensis and B. physalodes O. Kuntze, I.e. 



Am BACA. — 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. 185(5, in 

 company with Mar.vca spurtioidcs ; 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 " caf ucuto " (Ficalho ms.). 



3. B. africana. 



Borago africana L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 138 (1753). Pollichia 

 africana Medik., I.e., p. 248 ; J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. 

 Ins. p. 227 (1852). Trichodesma africanum R. Br. ex Roem. & Sch. 

 Syst. Veg. iv. p. 69 (1819). Bwaginella africana O. Kuntze, I.e. 



MosSAMEiiES.— 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 185!) ; fr. beginning of 

 June 1860. A small-flowered form. No. 5303 and Coll. C\m\ 102. 



Cape de Verde Islands.— Near Villa da Praia in the island of 

 St. Jago, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Jan. 18G1. No. 5471. 



4. B. Medusa. 



Trichodesma Medusa Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 29. 



HuiLLA. — A herb, probably annual, 4 ft. high, strongly branched, 

 with the habit of Ecltium ; stems several, leaves subcoriaceous, bright 

 green ; flowers clear blue ; nutlets 2 or 3, rarely 4. lu rather dry 

 thickets on the Humpata plateau, rather rare ; fl. 23 April I8i50. In 

 company with Franchetdla, arhtircm'ii.-i O. Kuntze, vai sk/injdiglla ; 

 Welw. herb. no. 2508. No. 5302- 



The same plant was found by Anchieta at Caconda. 



6. CYNOGLOSSUM Tourn., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pi. ii. 848. 



1. C. lanceolatum Forsk. Fl. vEgypt.-Arab., p. 41 (1775'). 



LoANDA.— At Quicuxe ; fl. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 5448- 



GoLUNCio Alto. — An erect, hispid, bright green, rather rigid, annual 

 or biennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, with the aspect also of an Echinu- 

 qiermum ; branches spreading ; flowers minute, milk-white ; calyx 

 5-cleft ; the lobes obtuse, hispid-ciliate ; corolla urceolate-infuiidibuli- 

 form ; the tube short, ample, dilated ; the segments of the limb 

 rounded-obtuse, flattened at the time of the flower ; the throat crowned 



