Heliotropium.] lxxxix. boraginEjB (baker and wright). 41 



2G. H. strigosum, Willd. Sp. PI. i. 743. Perennial. Root more 

 or less thick and woody. Stem slender, much-branched, clothed with 

 adpressed white bristly hairs. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, sessile 

 or very shortly stalked, up to 1\ in. long, usually much smaller, with 

 adpressed bristly hairs on both surfaces, revolute at the margins. 

 Spikes very lax, finally 3 in. long ; lower flowers often shortly pedicel- 

 late and bracteate. Calyx 1 lin. long, hairy outside ; lobes from linear 

 to lanceolate. Corolla-tube a little longer than the calyx, slightly 

 swollen about the middle ; lobes ^ lin. long, ovate, obtuse, crisped. 

 Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers ovate, 

 obtuse, crisped. Ovary globose; style \ lin. long, glabrous; stigma 

 shortly conical, persisting on the young fruit. Fruit depressed, obtusely 

 4-lobed, \ lin. long, hirsute above, separating into 4 nutlets, rounded 

 not angled on the hack. — DC. Prodr. ix. 546 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 

 397 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 143 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 151 ; Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 719 ; Giirke in Warb. Kunene-Samb. Exped. 

 347. H. bicolor and H. cordofanum, Hochst. & Steud. ex DC. I.e. ; 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 115. H. longifolium, H. pygmceum and 

 H. senense, Klotzsch in Peter's, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 251-253. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger, 106 ! 108 ! Gold Coast : Cape Const Castle, 

 Don ! Accra, Vogel, 6 ! 14 ! Brown, 355 ! Dagomba : Salasa, Kranse ! Togo : 

 near Lome, WamecJce, 19 ! Dahomey, Burton ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 

 307! 



Wile Land. Nubia: Erkowit, Schweinfurth, 302! Gebel O-Pik, Schweinfurth, 

 2101 ! Hor Tauiinib, Lord I Coast-land, Bent ! Kordofan, Kotschy, 96 ! 116 ! 

 208 ! Pfund, 136 ! Eritrea : Keren, Beccari, 163 ! near Saati, Schiveinfurth Sf 

 Riva, 377 ! 526! Abyssinia, Quartin Dillon Sf Petit, 208 ! Sehimper, 2212 ! 2326 ! 

 Roth, 440! 441! Jur: near Majob, Schweinfurth, 1551! British East Africa: 

 Ndi, Hildebrandt, 2587 ! Makindu, Kassner, 536 ! north of Mombasa, Whyte ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Welwitsch, 5299 ! 5451 ! 5455 ! Baum, 8 ! 



IVKozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Dar es Salaam, Hildebrandt, 1220 ! 

 Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; near Sena, Kirk ! Tete, Kirk ! British 

 Central Africa : Nyasaland, Buchanan, 1298 ! 



Also in Egypt, Arabia, Socotra, Tropical Asia, and Australia. 



27. H. abyssinicum, Vatke in Oest. Pot. Zeitsch. 1875, 168. 

 Shrubby. Branchlets sparsely strigose upwards. Leaves small, shortly 

 petioled, ovate, obovate or oblong, obtuse, undulate and repand on the 

 margin, clothed with dense yellowish bristly hairs. Spikes ebracteate. 

 Calyx-lobes narrow. Corolla-tube hairy, four times the length of the 

 calyx-lobes. Style slighty hairy; stigma shortly conical, with an entire 

 or emarginate crest. Nuts smooth, slightly hairy. — Linnsea, xliii. 320 ; 

 Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 352. 



Wile Land. Eritrea: Habab ; Hildebrandt, 470b. 



28. H. longiflorum, Hochst. ct Steud. ex A. DC. in DC. Prodr. ix. 

 555. Perennial. Stems erect, slender, woody, clothed with short 

 adpressed whitish hairs. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, not 

 crisped, clothed on both surfaces with short adpressed bristly hairs, the 

 lower sometimes 2-3 in. long; petiole 3-12 lin. long. Spikes lax, 



