42 lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). [Heliotropium . 



ebracteate, sometimes up to 6-9 in. long. Calyx f lin. long, hairy, out- 

 side ; lobes oblong, obtuse. Corolla 2-3 times as long as the calyx; tube 

 subcylinclric, densely pubescent outside ; lobes ovate, acute, undulate. 

 Anthers inserted above (not below as A. DC. states) the middle of the 

 corolla-tube. Ovary ovoid ; style filiform, glabrous ; stigma ovoid-conic. 

 Fruit globose, 1 lin. in diam. ; nutlets 4, glabrous, rugose. — Yatke in 

 Linmea, xliii. 817 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 720. Heliophytum 

 longiflorum, A. DC. I.e. 



MTile Land. Nubia : Hor Tamanib, Lord ! between Suakin and Berber, 

 Schweinfiirth, 289 ! 409 ! Abyssinia, Plowden ! Somaliland : Boobi, James cf- 

 Thrupp ! British East Africa: Lake Eudolph, Wellby ! Ndi, Hildebrandt, 2634 '.! 

 Mombasa, Rildehrandt, 1982 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes : at the mouth of the River Giraul, 

 Wehvitsch, 5294 ! banks of the River Bero, WelwitscA, 5291 ! 



Kozamb. Bust. German East Africa : Vidunda Mountains, Goetze, 416 ! 

 Portuguese East Africa : near Lupata, Kirk ! 



Also in Arabia. 



29. H. Steudneri, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 167. Peren- 

 nial. Stems slender, virgate, woody, densely clothed with short ad- 

 pressed whitish hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 15 lin. long, 6 lin. 

 broad, slightly crisped at the edge, densely pubescent on both surfaces ; 

 petioles 3 lin. long. Spikes short, dense, ebracteate. Calyx 1 lin. 

 long, densely hairy ; tube short ; lobes linear, obtuse. Corolla-tube 

 twice as long as the calyx, hairy ; lobes small, oblong. Stamens 

 inserted above the middle of the corolla-tube. Style slightly pilose or 

 glabrous ; stigma produced at the apex, obscurely bilobed. Fruit not 

 longer than the calyx ; nutlets 4. — Linnsea, xliii. 318, 320 ; Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 352; Schweinf. in Ghika, Pays des Somalis, 

 211. 



Nile Land. Nubia: Erkowit Mountain, Schweinfurth, 793 ! Eritrea: Bogos,. 

 6000 it., Hildebrandt, 469, Beccari, 145; between Saganeiti and Acrur, 6000- 

 7000 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 999! Somaliland: by the River Boholodimu, 

 Ghika. British East Africa: Dnrunia ; Tchamtei, Rildehrandt, 2338. 



30. H. dissimile, A. E. Br. Perennial ? about 2^ ft. high ; 

 branches herbaceous, with spreading pubescence. Leaves spreading, 

 1^-2^ in. long, 3-6 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 

 tapering to an acute base, finely pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole 

 1-2 lin. long. Cymes 2-branched ; peduncles 3-4 in. long, spreadingly 

 pubescent ; branches 1^-2^ in. long ; flowers sessile. Sepals 1^-2 lin. 

 long, erect, linear, obtuse, spreadingly pubescent. Corolla 3 lin. or 

 rather more in diam., white; tube 2| lin. long, § lin. in diam., 

 cylindric, adpressed pubescent; limb 5-lobed to about half-way down ; 

 lobes 1 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong or subquadrate, very obtuse or 

 almost truncate, glabrous. Fruit unknown. 



IVEozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Ngamiland ; Kwebe Hills, 3400 ft., 

 in dry sandy places, Mrs. Lugard, 77 ! Lugard, 139 ! 



Near H. longiflorum, Hochgt. & Steud., but calyx-segments much longer and 

 corolla larerer. 



