32 lxxxix. BORAGiNEiE (baker and Wright). [Heliotropium* 



Tournefortia zeylanica, Wight, 111. t. 170, fig. B. T. subitlata, Hochst. 

 ex DC." Prodr. ix. 528 ; A. Rich. Tent. PI. Abyss, ii. 83. T. stenoraca, 

 Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 250. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Soger! Northern Nigeria : Kuka, on Lake Chad, 

 Vogel, 36 ! 



Wile Land. Nubia : coast-land. Bent ! Soturba Mountains, Schiveinfurth r 

 2068 ! Hormareb, Schweinftirth, 680 ! Sennar, Kotschy, 307 ! Eazold, Kotschy, 543 ! 

 Kordofan, Kotschy, 163 ! Pfund, 251 ! 468! Eritrea: Barasio Valley, Schtveinfurth 

 Sf Riva, 703 ! Abyssinia, Roth, 123 (437)! Schimper, 487 ! 1285 ! British Somali- 

 land, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! British East Africa : Mombasa, Scott-Elliot, 6110 ! 

 Kili Makei, Kassner, 615 ! between Mombasa and Mount Kenia, Gregory ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Loanda, in damp places, Welwitsch, 5424 ! 5425 ■ 

 5426 ! Ambriz, Welwitsch, 5452 ! Icolo e Bengo ; near Foto, Welwitsch, 5434 ! 

 Mossamedes ; by the River Bero, Welwitsch, 5292 ! near Humbe, Pawn, 102 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Tanga, Moist, 2089 ! Pangani, 

 Volkens, 469 ! Amboni, Kassner, 6 ! near Lake Tanganyika, Scott- Elliot, 8227 ! 

 north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson ! Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; near 

 Lupata, Kirk ! Sena, Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Karonga, Scott ! 

 Kondowe to Karonga, Whyte ! Fort Hill, Whyte ! and without precise locality, 

 Buchanan, 1004 ! 



Also in the drier parts of India, the Orient, and the Mediterranean region. 



This is the widely spread plant which has long been known as PC. zeylanicum, 

 Lam. ; some doubt has arisen as to the correctness of this name, as Burmann's figure, 

 upon which Lamarck founded his species, does not show the caudate-acuminate 

 corolla-lobes, nor has the plant been found in Ceylon (see Trimen, Handb. El. Ceyl. 

 iii. 199). It is undesirable, however, to abandon such a well-known name, especially 

 as the evidence in favour of such a change is by no means definite. 



2. H. indicum, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i., 130. A stout annual herb. 

 Stems erect, 1-3 ft. high, pilose. Leaves opposite and alternate, ovate, 

 obtuse or subcordate (more rarely shortly cuneate) at the base, 

 irregularly sinuate at the margin, pilose on both sides, varying much in 

 size but usually about 4 by 3 in. ; petiole 2 in. long, narrowly winged. 

 Spikes usually simple, about 5 in. long, many-flowered ; peduncles 

 short. Calyx 5-partite, 1 lin. long, sparsely pilose ; lobes lanceolate, 

 acute. Corolla lilac or white ; tube 2 J lin. long ; lobes orbicular. 

 Anthers inserted just below the middle of the corolla-tube. Style 

 short, glabrous ; stigma subglobose, with a slender basal frill. Fruit 

 divaricately 4-lobed.— Bot. Mag. t. 1837 ; Vatke in Linnaea, xliii. 318; 

 C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 152 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 719 ; var. Petersii, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 115. H. 

 anisophyllum, Beau v. Fl. Owar. ii. 62, t. 96. Heliophytum indicum, 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 556. Tiaridium indicum, Lehm. PL Asper. 14 ; Wight, 

 111. ii. 211, t. 171. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal : Richard Tol, Bollinger, 63 ! Senegambia {Pteude- 

 lot .?) 721 ! Sierra Leone : Scarcies Valley, Scott-Elliot, 4719 ! Gold Coast : 

 Cape Coast Castle : Vogel, 48 ! Ashanti, Cummins, 22 ! Togo : near Lome, Warnecke, 

 277 ! Lagos, Daioodu, 3 ! Irving ' Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 1269 ! 

 Southern Nigeria, Holland, 209 ! Cameroons, Braun, 56 ! Zenker, 1520a ! 



Nile land. Sennar ? Kotschy, 222 ! British East Africa : near Mombasa, 

 Wakefield! Whyte! 



