Ehrelia.] lxxxix. BORAGiNEiE (baker and weight). 25 



lanceolate, acute. Corolla blue ; tube 2 lin. long ; lobes 5, lanceolate 

 or oblong, obtuse, as long as the tube. Stamens 5, exserted. Ovary 

 glabrous ; style 2 lin. long, arms short, obtuse. 



Nile Land. British East Africa: near Mazeras, 300 ft., Kassner, 282! 



IMCozamb. Dist. German East Africa: region of Lake Nyasa; Lukosse 

 River, 2300 ft., Goetze, 484 ! 



15. E. obtusifolia, ffochst. ex DC. Proclr. ix. 507. A small tree ; 

 branches terete, glabrous, greyish. Leaves obovate, |-2 in. long, obtuse 

 or subacute, entire. Cymes at first appearing terminal, afterwards dis- 

 tinctly lateral ; flowers shortly pedicelled. Calyx 1 lin. long, 5-partite, 

 pilose outside ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, obtuse. Corolla narrowly funnel- 

 shaped, whitish (Welwitsch) ; tube 1^ lin. long ; lobes oblong, 2 lin. long, 

 obtuse. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat, as long as the corolla ; 

 filaments glabrous ; anthers sagittate. Ovary subglobose ; style 3 lin. 

 long, divided about J- way down ; stigmas subcapitate. — A. Rich. Tent. 

 PI. Abyss, ii. 83; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 142; Martelli, Florul. 

 Bogos. 58 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 716. E. obovata, R. Br. in 

 Salt, Abyss. Append, lxiv. name only. 



Nile Land. Eritrea : near Acrur, 6200 ft., Scluveinfurth Sf Riva, 1344 ! 

 Selet Valley, below Saganeiti, 5500 ft., Scluveinfurth <Sf Siva, 1665 ! Bogos : Keren, 

 4500 ft., Beccari, 31 ! between Massowa and Adowa, Quartin Dillon. Abyssinia : 

 near Gapdia, Schimper, 652 ! Efat, Roth, 104 (206) ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Bumbo, Welwitsch, 4785. 



Also in Socotra, and from Arabia to Scinde and the Punjaub. 



16. E. Zenkeri, Gilrke MSS. Branchlets woody, densely pilose as 

 well as the petioles and branches of the inflorescence. Leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, 6 in. long, 3tjr in. wide, acute, subacute at the base, entire, 

 glabrous above, sparingly pilose on the nerves beneath ; petiole up to 

 2 in. long. Panicle terminal, lax ; branches patent, densely pilose. 

 Calyx nearly 1 lin. long, pubescent outside ; lobes 5, ovate, as long as 

 the tube. Corolla-tube 1 lin. long ; lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, rather 

 longer than the tube, reflexed. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat, 

 and slightly longer than the lobes. Ovary shortly oblong; style divided 

 about J-way down, arms obtuse. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 2319 ! 



17. E. cymosa, Thonn. in Schtcmach. <& Thonn. Beskr, Guin. PL 

 129, not of Willd. A shrub ; longer branches procumbent, shorter erect; 

 branchlets subterete, glabrous. Leaves ovate or oblong, shortly 

 acuminate, rounded at the base, entire, glabrous, up to 5 by 3 in., 

 sometimes foveolate (but not hairy) in the nerve-axils beneath ; petiole 

 up to 9 lin. long, channelled above. Panicle terminal, many-flowered ; 

 branches divergent, pubescent. Calyx f- lin. long, glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent ; lobes oblong, acute, ciliate. Corolla white ; tube wide, 

 cylindrical, i- lin. long ; lobes oblong, obtuse, f lin. long, recurved. 

 ■Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat, as long as the corolla ; filaments 

 subulate; anthers oblong. Style 1 lin. long, divided about \- way down. 



