48 lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). [Trichodesrna . 



9. T. Hildebrandtii, Gilrkein Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berl. i. 61. 

 An unclershrub with hispid and pubescent branches. Leaves shortly 

 petioled or subsessile, ovate or oblong, 1-1^ in. long, rather acute, nar- 

 rowed to the base, rough. Flowers 2-5 from the axils of the reduced 

 upper leaves ; pedicels 6 lin. long. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate,, 

 acuminate, 6 lin. long, hairy, deeply cordate at the base. Corolla-lobes 

 with a long point. Nucules 3 lin. long ; margin spinose-dentate ; back 

 furnished with rigid deflexed dense spreading pilose spines ; face shortly 

 pubescent. 



Nile Land. British Somaliland : Alii Mountains, 3000 ft., H ildebranclt, 847a. 



10. T. pauciflorum, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 189-1, 29. Shrubby, 

 much branched, with shortly strigose branchlets. Stem-leaves opposite, 

 shortly petioled, ovate with a rounded base, 1-1J in. long, with many 

 white tubercles and short whitish bristly hairs. Cymes few-flowered ; 

 pedicels short, slender, finely strigose. Calyx at the flowering time 6 lin. 

 long, shortly strigose ; segments lanceolate, not cordate at the base. 

 Corolla-tube 2 lin. long ; lobes broad ovate, minutely cuspidate, 4 lin. long. 

 Anthers 8 lin. long ; crest long, convolute, woolly below. Nuts not seen. 



Nile Land. Harnish Island, in the Red Sea, Slade, 5 ! 



11. T. glabrescens, Gierke in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 389. Stems 

 glabrous, 1^-2 ft. long. Leaves sessile, broadly lanceolate or rarely 

 oblong, 2-3 in. long, entire, acute or acuminate, glabrous on both sur- 

 faces. Cymes with very long pedicels and linear bracts. Calyx glabrous ; 

 lobes broadly lanceolate, very acuminate, 8 lin. long. Corolla -|-1 in. 

 long, white, with 5 long brown marks ; lobes broadly deltoid, mucronate. 

 Anthers 6 lin. long, villous on the back, with a long twisted tip. 



XVXozamb- Dist. German East Africa : Kinga Mountains, 7000 ft., Goetze : 

 1267. 



12. T. africanum, R. Br. Prodr. 496. An annual. Stems erect, 

 branched, up to 3 ft. high, furnished with scattered rigid white bulbous- 

 based hairs. Leaves opposite or alternate, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, 

 up to 5 by 2\ in., with scattered white bulbous-based hairs on both 

 surfaces, the uppermost sessile, the rest petioled. Panicle many- 

 flowered, terminal ; pedicels up to 6 lin. long, covered (like the outside 

 of the calyx) with stiff white hairs 1 lin. long. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, 

 3-4 lin. long at flowering time. Corolla scarcely exserted from the calyx, 

 blue ; throat yellow with 5 purple spots ; lobes rounded, produced into 

 an apiculus f lin. long. Anthers lanceolate ; awn nearly as long as the 

 cells, twisted, hairy outside in the lower part. Style filiform, glabrous. 

 Nutlets 4, ovoid, scabrid, rugulose on the ventral side, margin raised, 

 white and spiny. — Lehm. PI. Asper, 195 ; Roem. <fc Schult. Syst. Teg. 

 iv. 69, 753 ; A.DC. in DC. Prodr. x. 173 ; Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 

 1875, 168; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 154; C. H. 

 Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 11. Borago africana, Linn. Sp PI. ed. 

 2 197; Burm. Prodr. 4 ; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 161. B. verrucosa, 

 Forsk. Fl. ^Egypt.-Arab. 41. Pollichia africana, Medic. Bot. Beobacht. 



