34 lxxxix. boraginevE (baker and wright). [Ilelioiropium . 



thin, not crisped, very obtuse, narrowed gradually from the middle to 

 the base, the largest 1A-2 in. long; petiole very hairy; spikes 

 moderately dense, ebracteate, finally 2 in. long. Calyx very hairy; tube 

 very short ; segments unequal, two 1^ lin. long, ovate, the rest much 

 shorter, linear. Corolla-tube not longer than the calyx ; lobes small, 

 orbicular. Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla-tube. Style 

 very short : stigma with a produced conical crest. Nuts 4 ; shorter 

 than the calyx. 



Mozamb. Sist. Portuguese East Africa : banks of the River Shire at Mosam- 

 bala, Scott ! 



Habit of H. europcsum and its allies. 



6. H. ovalifolium, Forsk. Fl. ^Egypt-Arab. 38. Herbaceous 

 from a woody base. Stem much-branched, diffuse, densely clothed with 

 soft whitish spreading hairs. Leaves obovate or elliptic, obtuse, 

 densely hairy on both surfaces, ^—1\ in. long, 3-8 lin. broad ; petiole 2- 

 9 lin. long. Cymes spicate, numerous, rather dense, ebracteate, finally 

 2—3 in. long. Calyx |- lin. long, white hairy outside ; one lobe lanceo- 

 late, much broader than the linear others. Corolla 1 lin. long ; lobes i 

 as long as the tube, orbicular. Stamens inserted just above the corolla- 

 "base ; anthers small, lanceolate. Ovary globose; stigma subsessile, 

 conical. Fruit depressed globose, scarcely 1 lin. in diam. ; nutlets 4, 

 hispid. — C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 150 ; Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PL Welw. i. 718 ; Ciirke in Warb. Kunene-Samb. Exped. 348; 

 C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 8. H. coromandelianum, Retz. 

 Obs. ii. 9; Wight, Ic. t. 1388; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 

 Bot. 253 ; Lehm. PL Asper. 46 ; var. obovatum, DC. Prodr. ix. 541. 

 H. brocchianum, Vis. PL ^gypt. & Nub. 8, t. 2, fig. 1. H. apiculatum, 

 E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 93. II. Kunzii, 

 Lehm. Ic. & Descr. Stirp. 19, t. 29. H. cinereum, R. Br. in Salt, 

 Abyss. Append. 63. H. niloticum, ADC. in DC. Prodr. ix. 541. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal : Sieler, 12 ! Dollinger, 56 ! Northern Nigeria : 

 Nupe, Barter ! 



Wile Land. By the River Nile, Bromfield ! Schweinfurth, 913! Sennar, 

 Kotschy, 146 ! 281 ! 333 ! 334 ! 335 ! between Berber and Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 

 477 ! 507 ! ser. iii. 57 ! near Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 892 ! Broun ! Kordofan, 

 Kotschy, 7* ! Pfund, 497 ! Darf ur, Ptirdy, 65 ! Galabat, Schweinfurth, 2098 ! 

 Abyssinia: Tacazze Valley, Schimper, 1580! Uganda: Fort Johnstone, Scott- 

 Elliot, 8423 ! British East Africa : Athi Plains, Scott-Elliot, 6557 ! Witu, 

 Thomas, 76 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Icolo e Bengo, Wehoitsch, 5435 ! Loanda, Wel- 

 witsch, 5439 ! 5440 ! 5441 ! 5442 ! Cazengo, Welwitsch, 5447 ! Mossamedes, 

 Welwitsch, 5288! 5289! 52901 Barra do Bengo ; near Santo Antonio, Wehoitsch, 

 5443! by the River Kubango, Baum, 436! German South-west Africa: Ambo- 

 land ; Olukonda, Schinz, 827 ! 829 ! 



Mozamb. Sist. German East Africa, Busse, 885 ! Portuguese East Africa: 

 Lower Zambesi, Beters. British Central. Africa : Nyasaland ; Kondowe to Karongn, 

 Whyte ! Tropical Transvaal ; Shilouvane (Sebolane ?) Junod, 757 ! 



7. H. Baclei, DC. Prodr. ix. 546. Annual. Stems much-branched, 

 diffuse, clothed with adpressed bristly hairs. Leaves elliptic, narrowed 



