22 lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). [Ehretia. 



1 lin. long; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit enclosing 4 pyrenes. — Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxviii. 310. E. nemoralis, Glirke, 11. cc. 336, 310. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara ; Tanga, Volkens, 198, Holsf 7 

 2115 ! in the bush on hills near Amboni, Hoist, 2814 ! near Pangani, Stnhl- 

 mann, ser. i. 171 : near Bagamoyo, Stuhlmann, 204 ; near Dar-es-Salaam, Stahlmann, 

 6077, 6647, 6663, 6672, 6679, 7085, 7161. 



5. "E.tetra.n&ra,f Gierke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 311,461. — A shrub, 

 about 7 ft. high. Leaves broadly ovate, acuminate, cordate at the 

 base, 14— 2i in. long, entire or irregularly toothed, membranous, pube- 

 scent on both surfaces ; petiole 4-6 lin. long. Cymes lateral, few- 

 flowered ; peduncle short, covered (as well as the pedicels) with short 

 brown hairs. Calyx campanulate, finely hairy outside, 1 lin. long ; 

 teeth 4, rotundate, slightly longer than the tube. Corolla yellow ; 

 tube If lin. long, tubular-campanulate, densely hairy at the throat ; 

 lobes 4, elliptic, obtuse, 1J lin. long. Stamens 4 ; filaments f lin. long ; 

 anthers shortly ovate. Ovary globose, papillate ; style 1\ lin. long, 

 bifid only at the apex. 



IVKozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usagara ; beneath overhanging rocks. 

 by the Euaha River, 2000-2500 ft., Goetze, 471 ! 



6. E. longistyla, De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 43. 

 A shrub 3-5 ft. high ; branchlets pubescent in the upper part. Leaves 

 elliptic, acute or abruptly acuminate, obtuse at the base, entire, 

 membranous, glabrous or pubescent on the main veins above, glabrous 

 except for tufts of hair in the axils of the secondary veins beneath ; 

 petiole 4-6 lin. long. Cymes lax, many-flowered, terminal and lateral ; 

 peduncle long; pedicels short; bracts oblanceolate, li-3 in. long. 

 Calyx 5-lobed to the base ; lobes deltoid, acute, 1| lin. long, ciliate on 

 the margin. Corolla blue-violet ; tube campanulate, twice as long 

 as the calyx, glabrous; lobes round-deltoid, obtuse, 2 lin. long. 

 Stamens much exserted. Ovary glabrous ; style 3-4 lin. long; stigma 

 2-lobed. Pyrenes 4. 



Lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Boma, Deivevre. 



7. E. Bakeri, Britten in Journ. Bot. 1895, 88. A shrub or small 

 tree; branchlets glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves ovate-oblong, acute, 

 6-8 in. long, 3^ in. wide, deltoid at the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous on 

 both surfaces; petiole 9 lin. long, channelled above. Cymes small, 

 many-flowered, terminal on the glabrous or puberulous branchlets ; 

 pedicels very short. Calyx pubescent outside, 5 -partite ; segments 

 lanceolate, acute, 1 lin. long, \ lin. wide. Corolla-tube cylindrical, 2 lin. 

 long, 1 lin. in cliam.; lobes oblong, rounded and ciliate at the apex, 

 H lin. long, | lin. wide. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat ; 

 filaments slightly shorter than the corolla-lobes, glabrous. Ovary 

 conical; style 21 lin. long (including the A lin. long obtuse arms). 

 Fruit enclosing 4 separable pyrenes. — E. macrophylla, Baker in Kew 

 Bulletin, 1894, 29, not of Wallich. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usaramo ; Dar-es-Salaam, KirJc, 120 ! 

 124! 



