Cordia.] lxxxix. boragine.e (baker and weight). 19 



calyx; lobes oblong, obtuse, 1|- by f lin. Stamens inserted in the 

 corolla-throat, glabrous. Style-arms narrowly clavate. Fruit ovoid, 

 apiculate by the persistent style-base, seated upon the accrescent 

 saucer-shaped calyx, reddish. — DO. Prodr. ix. 480 ; Wight, Ic. t. 1379 ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 138. C. reticulata, Roth ex 

 Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iv. 454, not of Vahl. G. oblongifolia, 

 Hochst. ex DC. Prodr. ix. 480, in obs., not of Thw. G. subopposita, 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 480 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 81 ; Schweinf. Beitr. 

 Fl. Aethiop. 118 ; Hiern inCat.' Afr. PI. Welw. i. 713. G. quercifolia, 

 Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 247, t. 43. G. Gharaf, Ehrenb. 

 ex Aschers. in Sitz.-ber. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, 1879, 46, and in Sitz.-ber. 

 Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxi. 69 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 351 ; 

 Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 461, and in Warb. Kunene-Samb. 

 Exped. 347. Comus Gharaf, Forsk. Fl. vEgypt.-Arab. xcv. G. san- 

 guinea, Forsk. I.e. 33, not of Linn. 



Upper Guinea. Togo: near Lome, Wamecke, 344! Northern Nigeria: 

 North Bornu at Yo, Elliot, 149 I 



Nile land. Nubia : between Atbara and the Red Sea, Schioeinfurth, 1492 ! 

 Eritrea : Ailet, TShrenberg ! Mount Zibo, near Saati, Schioeinfurth £f Hiva, 523 ! 

 Abyssinia : by the River Tacazze, Schimper, 789 ! near Gageros, Schitnper, 2283 ! 

 Kordofan : Katul Gombara, Pfund, 207! White Nile : Om Mussot, Schweinfurth, 

 999 ! 1004 ! Gazelle River : Schioeinfurth, 1176 ! British East Africa : Taita ; 

 Ndi, Hildebrandt, 2845 ! near Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 1969 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Barra de Bengo ; dry hilly places between Teba 

 and Cacuaeo, Welwitsch, 5421 ! Loanda ; maritime thickets near Maianga d'El Rei, 

 Welwitsch, 5422 ! 5468 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Uhehe ; by the Ruaha River, Goetze, 

 432 ! Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi, Tete, KirJc ! British Central 

 Africa : Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 874 ! 

 Also extends through Arabia into India. 



2. EHRETIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. 840. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx small, campanulate, 

 deeply (usually 5-) cleft. Corolla-tube campanulate or funnel-shaped, 

 shorter or longer than the 4-7 oblong imbricate patent lobes. Stamens 

 4-7, inserted at or below the throat of the corolla-tube ; filaments fili- 

 form ; anthers versatile. Ovary 2-4-celled ; style terminal ; subulate, 

 bifid ; stigmas capitate, terminal ; ovules attached laterally. Drupe 

 small, globose ; endocarp hard ; pyrenes 2, 2-celled or 4, 1-celled. Seeds 

 with little albumen ; cotyledons plicate. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves alter- 

 nate, entire or dentate, smooth or scabrid, penninerved. Flowers small, 

 usually arranged in very compound terminal dichotomous cymes with 

 scorpioid branchlets. 



Species about 50, spread through the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 



Owing to the fruit of very many of the Tropical African species being unknown, 

 it is not possible to arrange them under the sections adopted by Bentham and Hooker 

 and other authors. 



Ehretia triphylla, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 830, is Clerodendron glabrum, E. 

 Meyer. 



