26 LXXXIX. BORAGINE.E (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [Ehretia. 



Fruit enclosing 4 separable 1-seeded pyrenes. — DC. Prodr. ix. 508 ; 

 A.DC. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 ser. i. 581. 



Upper Guinea : Sierra Leone : Talla hills, Scott-Elliot, 4856 ! 4920 ! 

 Bafodeya Highlands, Scott-Elliot, 5645 ! near Bumban, Scott-Elliot, 5723 I 

 Liberia : Cape Palmas, Tog el, 20 ! Gold Coast : Accra, Brown, 372 ! Togel ! 

 Aquapim, Togel \ Togo : near Lome, Warnecke, 82 ! 370 ! Lagos : Thaki, Denton, 

 24 ! Abeokuta, Irving, 52 ! Jasohe ( Jaoke), Irving, 139 ! Phillips, 34 ! Barter,. 

 3388 ! Millen, 98 ! Punch, 2 ! Interior, Rowland ! Southern Nigeria : Aboh, Barter, 

 287 ! Cameroons : Rio del Bey, Johnston ,• Yaunde, Zenker, 1483 ! Bipinde,. 

 Zenker, 2119 ! 



Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Mann, 1124 ! 



Also reported from Madagascar. 



18. E. scrobiculata, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 716. A 

 small tree ; branches virgate, patent or nodding ; branchlets subterete,. 

 inconspicuously striate, glabrescent. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled,. 

 ovate or ovate-oblong, 5-6 in. long, 3-3i in. wide, cuspidate, rounded 

 or subcordate at the base, entire, glabrous or nearly so, thinly coriaceous ; 

 lateral nerves 7-8 on each side, with a small pit in each of the axils on 

 the lower face ; petiole 4-6 lin. long. Cymes 8 in. in diam., terminal ; 

 flowers sessile or shortly stalked, pilose-puberulous. Calyx campanu- 

 late, 1 lin. long, puberulous ; lobes 5, deltoid. Corolla whitish, broadly 

 funnel-shaped ; tube as long as the calyx ; lobes ovate, oblong, obtuse, 

 1| lin. long, reflexed. Stamens 5 ; filaments as long as the corolla- 

 lobes. Ovary ovoid. 



Lower Guinea. Princes Island : maritime part of the island, in a wooded 

 place, only one tree seen, Welwitsch, 5465 ! 



19. E. divaricata, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 28. A small 

 tree, with laxly thinly hairy branchlets. Leaves oblong, subobtuse, 

 membranous, 3-4 in. long, smooth, glabrous except on the nerves, 

 deltoid at the base ; petiole short, slender. Cymes very lax and ample ; 

 branchlets slender, divaricate, pubescent ; pedicels very short. Calyx 

 puberulous ; tube \ lin. long ; segments narrowly lanceolate, acute. 

 Corolla 3 lin. in diam. ; tube short ; lobes oblong, obtuse, 1| lin. long.. 

 Stamens as long as the corolla-lobes ; anthers oblong. Ovary conic ; 

 style about I lin. long, branches f lin. long, obtuse. Drupe not seen. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa ; Nyasaland ; near Chiradzulu (not 

 Ischizadruaro, as originally quoted) Mountain, 3000 ft., Kirk ! 



20. E. Goetzei, Gurke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 311, 461. An erect 

 shrub or tree 26-32 ft. high. Leaves shortly petioled, broadly ovate, 

 2|-3 lin. long, acute, narrowed to the base, entire, coriaceous, scabrid 

 above, pubescent beneath. Cymes lax, many-flowered. Calyx 1| lin. 

 long; lobes 5, lanceolate, obtuse. Corolla white, 3 lin. long; lobes 

 6-7, lanceolate, obtuse, as long as the tube. Stamens 6-7, short; 

 anthers lanceolate. Ovary glabrous ; style short, thick. 



IMCozamb. »ist. German East Africa : Khutu ; on thinly wooded steppes by 

 the Mgeta River, near Kisaki, 500 ft., Goetze, 128 ! 



