24 lxxxix. boraginEjE (baker and wright). [Ehretia. 



sparingly setose, beneath and on margin more so ; petiole 2 lin. long. 

 Panicle terminal ; branches minutely reddish tomentose ; pedicels short. 

 Calyx f lin. long, puberulous outside ; lobes oblong, obtuse, ciliate. 

 Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, 2 lin. long; lobes reflexed, oblong, 1| lin. 

 long. Stamens shorter than the corolla ; filaments glabrous. Ovary 

 conical ; style 3 lin. long, including the 1 lin. long arms. 



Nile Land. Soinaliland near Meid, in the region of Mount Alii, about 3600 ft., 

 midebrandt, 1517 ! 



12. E. amcena, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 248, t. 41. 

 A shrub ; branches erect, robust, terete, glabrous, ashy-white. Leaves 

 obovate, truncate and coarsely crenate-toothed at the apex, attenuate 

 into a short petiole, 2-2^ in. long, 10-15 lin. wide, dark green and 

 scabrid above, hoary pubescent beneath. Panicles terminal on short 

 branches, pubescent ; ultimate branches racemose. Calyx 5-partite, 

 pubescent, 1 lin. long ; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla rotate, 3 lin. long ; 

 lobes 5, oblong, acute. Stamens 5, inserted in the corolla-throat and as 

 long as the lobes ; filaments compressed subulate, glabrous ; anthers ob- 

 long,at the apex shortly, at the base deeply 2-lobed. Ovary oblong-globose, 

 glabrous ; style straight, cylindrical, 2-fid about a 5-way down ; stigmas 

 incrassate, truncate, umbilicate. Fruit globose, glabrous, foveolate, 

 enclosing two 2-celled, 2-seecled pyrenes. — Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 335 ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, PL Cap. iv. ii. 5. E. mossambicensis, 

 Klotzsch, I.e. 249, t. 42 ; Giirke, 1. c. 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi: Tete, Peters, 

 Kirk ! Sena, Peters. British Central Africa : Matabeleland ; near Enkeldorn, Hon. 

 Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 89 ! Ngamiland ; Kwebe, Lugard, 36 ! 37 ! Kvvebe Hills, 3400 ft., 

 Mrs. Lugard, 48 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



13. E. rosea, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 4G1. An erect shrub, 

 3-7 ft. high ; bark grey ; branches slender, terete, yellowish-grey 

 tomentose. Leaves oblong or almost rhomboid, 1 J-2-i in. long, obtusely 

 or shortly cuspidate, narrowed to the base, coriaceous, quite entire, pube- 

 scent on both surfaces. Cymes lax, many-flowered. Calyx finely hairy, 

 1^ in. long ; teeth 5, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the tube. 

 Corolla rose-red ; tube 2 lin. long ; lobes 5, lanceolate, about half as long 

 as the tube, J lin. wide, obtuse. Stamens 5, rather far exsertecl. 

 Pistil 3 lin. long. Fruit globose, 4 " cm." (mm.?) in diam. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : East Uluguru, Tununguo, 500- 

 600 ft., Stuhlmann, 8713, and without precise locality, Stuhlmann, 8961. 



14. E. coerulea, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 312,461. A shrub 

 about 13 ft. high ; bark pale grey. Leaves very irregular in outline but 

 more or less broadly obovate, about 2 in. long, 1|- in. wide, rounded to a 

 small cusp at the apex or emarginate, narrowed to the base, entire, 

 pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole 3-6 lin. long, downy. Cymes many- 

 flowered ; branches densely pubescent ; pedicels about 2 lin. long. 

 Calyx 14; lin. long, pubescent, cut down nearly to the base ; lobes 5, 



