40 lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). \Heliotr opium. 



pilose. Nuts 4, hispid. — Walp. Ann. v. 543 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 152. Litkospermwm leiocophlceum , Schweinf. ex 

 C. B. Clarke, I.e. 



Wile Land. Nubia: between Suakin and Berber, Schweinf urth, 696! 



Also in Beluchistan. 



23. H.lignosum, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitsch. 1875, 167. Fruticose. 

 Stems short, woody, ascending, densely clothed with short adpressed 

 whitish bristly hairs. Leaves small, sessile, lanceolate, with revolute 

 crisped edges, densely and shortly bristly on both sides. Spikes short, 

 dense, 3-6-flowered. Calyx 1J in. long, very hispid; tube short ; seg- 

 ments oblong. Corolla-tube slightly longer than the calyx, subcylindric; 

 segments small, obtuse. Stamens inserted just below the middle of the 

 corolla-tube. Style short ; stigma conical ; apex bilobed. Nuts 4, 

 hispid. — ■Lithosperm.um lignosum, Schweinf. ex Vatke, I.e. 



Nile Land. Nubia : coast north of Ras Ranar, Schweinf urth, 2111 ! 

 Also in Ai'abia. 



24. H. arenarium, Vatke in Linncea, xliii. 319. Suffruticose, 

 much branched. Stems short, woody, ascending, densely pubescent. 

 Leaves oblanceolate, rigid, about 1 in. long, 2 lin. broad, gradually nar- 

 rowed to the subsessile base, revolute at the margins, densely clothed 

 with adpressed white bulbous-based hairs. Spikes dense, very short ; 

 lower flowers bracteate. Calyx fleshy, densely strigose ; lobes very 

 unequal, the longest elliptic and 2 lin. long. Corolla-tube cylindric 

 for 1 lin. below, funnel-shaped for 1 lin. above; lobes triangular, obtuse, 

 ^ lin. long. Stamens inserted near the top of the corolla-tube. Ovary 

 truncate ; style slender, glabrous, 1 lin. long; stigma small, conical, bifid. 

 Fruit small, scabrid. 



Nile Land. Somaliland : coast hills near Baraua, Hildebrandt, 1314 ! 



25. H. marifolium, Retz. Obs. ii. 8. A much-branched decumbent 

 plant. Branches slender, slightly woody, hirsute. Leaves lanceolate to 

 nearly ovate, up to 6 lin. long and 2 lin. broad, with adpressed hairs on 

 both surfaces ; petiole very short. Flowers in the axils of the upper- 

 leaves, white or yellow. Calyx 1| lin. long, hairy outside ; two segments 

 ovate, the others linear. Corolla 2| lin. long, central areas thickened 

 and hairy outside, intermediate membranous and glabrous. Stamens 

 inserted a short way above the base of the corolla-tube; connective 

 much produced above the anther. Stigma subsessile, shortly conical, 

 minutelv 4-toothed. Fruit hispid in the upper part. — Wight, Ic. t. 

 1390 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 547 ; var. Wallichii, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. iv. 152. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal (Leprieur ?), 874. Sierra Leone : dry sandy places, 

 Makunde, in Limba district, Scott-Elliot, 5717 ! 



IVXozamb, Dist. British Central Africa : North Nyasaland ; Elephant Marsh, 

 Scott ! 



Also in Tropical Asia. 



