Cordia.] lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). 17 



pubescent beneath, crenate or entire in the upper half ; lateral nerves 

 about 5 on each side ; petiole 4-G lin. long, pubescent. Cymes few- 

 flowered. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 4 lin. long, not sulcate, slightly 

 pubescent outside, densely silky inside and on the margins ; lobes 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, scarious. Corolla-tube cylindrical, 3^ lin. long ; 

 lobes 5, obovate, obtuse, 2^ lin. long. Filaments much shorter than the 

 corolla-lobes, hairy below. Ovary ovoid, gradually tapering upwards ; 

 style deeply bipartite ; ultimate branches linear, 2^ lin. long. Fruit 

 ovoid, 6 lin. long, seated upon the enlarged woody campanulate 

 crenately toothed calyx. — DC. Prodr. ix. 479. C. senegalensis, v&r.Pelida, 

 Hochst. in Schimp. Essicc, 2180, not of DC. G. obovala, Baker in Kew 

 Bulletin, 1894, 28, not of Balf . f . G. Bakeri, Britten in Journ. Bot. 1895, 

 88. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Samen ; near Jaja, Schimper, 2180 ! and without 

 precise locality, Schimper, 192 ! Blue Nile, near Sheikh Talha Village, Muriel, 

 L82! 



Also in Egypt. 



This is very closely allied to that state of C. Mothii, Roem. & Schultes, described 

 by Klotzsch as C. qiiercifolia. 



28. C. guineensis, Thonn. in Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 

 128. A shrub G ft. high or rather more, very much branched, erect; 

 branches terete, scabricl- pubescent. Leaves alternate, elliptic, obtuse 

 with a reflected mucro, subentire, shortly scabrid, 2-3 in. long, the 

 younger remotely denticulate ; veins prominent beneath ; petiole short, 

 terete. Panicle axillary, shortly corymbose ; peduncle as long as the 

 petiole ; flowers polygamous. Hermaphrodite flowers : Calyx tubular, 

 constricted at the mouth, striate-rugose, slightly pubescent outside, 

 densely silky tomentose within ; teeth 5, setaceous, marcescent. Corolla 

 salver-shaped, pale yellow, opening at night, sweet-smelling ; tube as 

 long as the calyx ; lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, recurved. Stamens 5 ; 

 filaments adnate to the middle of the corolla-tube and scarcely longer 

 than it in the hermaphrodite flowers, as long as the lobes in the male, 

 pubescent. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, tapering into a style as long as the 

 corolla. Fruit as large as a gooseberry, ovoid, subacuminate, glabrous, 

 surrounded nearly to the middle by the calyx, 1-seeded. — DC. Prodr. ix. 

 480. 



Lower Guinea. Guinea : by the sea-shore, Thonning, 



29. C. quarensis, Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. G. 335. A small 

 tree ; branchlets subtomentose or pubescent. Leaves broad ovate, obtuse, 

 2-2f in. long, l|-2^ in. broad, rounded at the base, obsoletely toothed 

 or entire, scabrid above, pubescent beneath ; petiole 4-9 lin. long., 

 Flowers dioicous, arranged in few-flowered cymes, 3-4 of which form a 

 panicle. Calyx of male flowers between campanulate and turbinate, 

 about 4 lin. long, tomentose outside ; teeth 3-5, unequal, deltoid. 

 Corolla pale yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens shorter than 



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