18 LXXXIX. BORAGINE.E ( BAKER AND WRIGHT). [Corclia. 



the corolla. — Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 308 ; Merker in JSTotizbl. 

 Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iii. 197. 



Mozamb. 3>ist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; by the Quare brook, 

 Volkens, 2040, 2045; Uzinja; Usambiro, Stuhlmann, 845. 



30. C. pilosissima, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 28. A tree 

 8-15 feet high ; branchlets densely pilose when young. Leaves ovate 

 or suborbicular, up to 5 by 3^ in., rounded at the base, obtuse, entire, 

 or obscurely crenate, densely tomentose on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 

 5-7 on each side ; petiole 1 in. long, densely pilose. Cymes terminal, 

 dense, many-flowered ; branches densely pilose ; flowers polygamous. 

 Calyx tubular-campanulate, 3-5 lin. long, densely pilose outside, 

 pubescent inside, not sulcate ; lobes small, unequal, ovate. Corolla 

 whitish-violet (Welwitsch) ; tube 3-6 lin. long, cylindrical; lobes 4-5, 

 spreading obovate, 2|— 3|- lin. long, undulate. Stamens inserted in the 

 corolla-throat ; filaments 1 lin. long, hairy in the lower part. Ovary in 

 male flower rudimentary, globose, in hermaphrodite ovoid ; style divided 

 about halfway down ; ultimate branches 24; lin. long, linear. Fruit 

 ovoid, acuminate, about 1 in. long ; calyx 7 lin. long, 9 lin. in diam., 

 slightly ribbed, coriaceous. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 713. 

 C. Kirkii, Baker, I.e. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Bumbo ; in open forests at the foot of the Chella 

 Mountains, near Hruco, Welwitsch, 4784 ! 



Mozamb. ssist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Tete, Kirk! 

 Shigogo, Kirk ! British Central Africa : Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 

 853! 



31. C. somaliensis, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 28. A tree; 

 final branchlets slender, densely coated with short whitish pubescence. 

 Leaves oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, entire, 2-2| in. long, f-1 in. broad, 

 cuneate at the base, penninerved, subcoriaceous, slightly pubescent and 

 scabrid above when mature, densely clothed with short drab 

 pubescence beneath ; petiole not above \ in. long. Cymes dense, very 

 compound, terminal, shortly peduncled ; branchlets very hairy. Calyx 

 3 lin. long, ovoid, pilose but glabrescent outside, persistently silky 

 pubescent inside ; teeth short, unequal, acute. Corolla-tube cylindric, 

 3 lin. long; lobes oblong, obtuse, 2| lin. long. Filaments inserted 

 in the corolla-throat, 1 lin. long, slender, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, 

 tapering upwards ; style-arms linear, 1^ lin. long. 



Wile Land. British East Africa : Kismayo (Kismayu), near the mouth of the 

 River Jub, Kirk ! Not from Kisinga as originally quoted. 



32. C. Rothii, Roeni. & Schultes, Syst. Teg. iv. 798. A shrub or tree 

 up to about 16 ft. high; branches often bearing lenticels. Leaves sub- 

 opposite, oblanceolate or oblong, obtuse, very variable in size, averaging 

 3 by 14 in-* sometimes rather unequal at the base, scabrid above, 

 pubescent beneath ; petiole 3-6 lin. long. Cymes terminal ; branches 

 and outside of calyx more or less hairy ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long. Calyx 

 oblong-campanulate, 2 lin. long, membranous and obscurely lobed at 

 the apex. Corolla white ; tube cylindric, a little longer than the 



