36 lxxxix. bokaginEjE (baker and weight). [Heliotropium. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes ; near Aguadas, Welwitsch, 5293 ! 

 5435b ; by the River Croque, Johnston ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Cliiloane, Scott! 



An American weed, now established in many places in the Old World. 



11. H. albohispidum, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 220. A 

 much-branched perennial herb. Stem woody at the base. Branches 

 densely clothed with adpressed strong white hairs. Leaves sessile, 

 linear, with revolute edges, the lower 6-9 lin. long, clothed on both 

 surfaces with adpressed white hairs. Racemes long ; bracts linear- 

 subulate, persistent ; pedicels short, erect. Calyx 1^ lin. long ; segments 

 linear, hispid. Corolla 2 lin. long ; tube clothed with yellow hairs 

 inside in the upper half ; limb 1^ lin. in diam. ; lobes orbicular, spreading, 

 undulate. Anthers subsessile in the corolla-throat, linear. Ovary 

 oblong, \ lin. long ; style subulate, as long as the ovary ; stigma 

 subcapitate. 



Nile Land. British Somaliland : Hammar, Miss Edith Cole I 

 This species resembles S. rariflorwm, Stocks, but has a longer corolla, with 

 different shaped lobes. 



12. H. arbainense, Fresen. in Mils. Senckenb. i. (1834) 168. 

 Perennial. Stems short, ascending, much-branched, densely clothed 

 with short soft whitish hairs. Leaves petioled, ovate or oblong, small, 

 densely hairy on both sides, rounded or narrowed to the base. Spikes 

 dense, ebracteate, finally 2-3 in. long. Calyx very glandular, hairy, 

 2 lin. long ; tube short ; lobes ovate. Corolla-tube hairy, twice as long 

 as the calyx ; lobes small, ovate. Stamens inserted just below the 

 middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers lanceolate, acute. Stigma mush- 

 room-shaped, glabrous, nearly sessile. Nuts 4, shorter than the calyx, 

 rugose, glabrous. — DC. Prodr. ix. 537 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 146. 



Nile Land. Coast of Nubia, ex Boissier. 

 Also in Egypt, Arabia, and Afghanistan. 



13. H. ophioglossum, Stocks ex Aitch. Cat. Punj. PL 94. 

 Suffruticose, pubescent and hispid with patent, sometimes bulbous-based, 

 hairs, except on the corolla. Lower leaves elliptic, petioled, upper 

 subsessile, lanceolate, sometimes sinuous, Cymes spicate, 2-3 together, 

 up to 8 in. long, ebracteate ; flowers sometimes distant. Calyx 

 5-partite nearly to the base, 2 lin. long ; segments linear. Corolla 

 white ; tube about as long as the calyx, cylindric, slightly pubescent 

 outside ; lobes 5 with 5 intermediate folds, undulate, about i lin. long. 

 Anthers inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube, oblong, about 

 1 lin. long. Ovary shortly conical ; style very short ; stigma discoid, 

 terminated by a subulate crest about 2 lin. long, bifid about ^-way down. 

 —Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 145 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 

 149. H. ditrichum, Stocks ex Aitch. I.e. H. stylosum, Franch. Sert. 

 Somal. 45, t. 4, not of Philippi. 



Nile Land. Somaliland : Meraya, Revoil ex Franchet. 

 Also in Scinde, Beloochistan, and Southern Arabia. 



