Trichodesma.~\ lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). 49 



248 ; Phil. Bot. i. 32. Borraginoides aculeata, Moench, Meth. 516. B. 

 africana, Hiern in Oat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 721. Boraginella africana, 

 0. Kze. Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 435. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Kuka, Vogel, 43 ! Borgu, Barter, 770 ! 



Nile Land. Eritrea: Arrot Valley, 4400 ft., Schweinfurtk Sr Mva, 1409 ! 

 Abyssinia : Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 311 ! Beschilo Valley near Magdala, Steud- 

 ner, 859 ! 



lower Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes ; banks of the River Bero, Welwitsch, 

 5303 ! hills near Boa Vista, Gossweiler, 81 ! 



Also in South Africa, Cape Verde Isles, North Africa, and through the Orient to 

 Scind. 



13. T. calathiforme, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 29. Stems 

 herbaceous, densely clothed with short bristly hairs. Leaves opposite, 

 densely bristly on both sides, the upper ovate, sessile, the lower large, 

 oblong, narrowed to the base. Cymes lax ; pedicels long, slender, 

 densely bristly. Calyx densely clothed with adpressed bristly hairs 

 6 lin. long in the flowering stage ; segments at first oblong-lanceolate, 

 finally broad ovate, cuspidate. Corolla-limb 1 in. in diam. ; segments 

 with a large cusp from a broad ovate base. Anthers 3 lin. long ; con- 

 nective longer than the anthers, convolute, hairy below. Nuts ovoid, 

 2-3 lin. long, with a thick inflexed entire wing, and nearly smooth 

 back. — DC. Prodr. x. 173 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 352. 

 Friedrichsthalia trichodesmoides, Bunge, Delect. Sem. Hort. Dorpat. 

 1843, 7 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 115. Streblanthera trichodes- 

 moides, Steud. ex Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 29 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 92. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia: Adowa, Petit, 414! near Selassaquilla, and near 

 Jelajeranne, Schimper, and without precise locality, Schimper, 710 ! British 

 Somaliland, Miss Edith Cole! Rev oil (ex Franchet). 



14. T. grandifolium, Baker in Kew Bidletin, 1894, 29. Stems 

 slender, herbaceous, armed with short ascending white bristles. Leaves 

 thin, scabrid, opposite, ovate, the upper sessile with a broadly rounded 

 base, the lower shortly petioled, 5-6 in. long by half as broad. Cymes 

 lax, many-flowered ; pedicels very slender, clothed with adpressed 

 bristly hairs, the lower 1 in. long. Calyx 6 lin. long in the flowering 

 stage, 10 lin. in fruit ; segments strigose, broad ovate with a large 

 cusp. Corolla-limb 1 in. in diam. ; lobes suborbicular with a small cusp. 

 Anthers much shorter than the corolla-lobes ; appendages as long 

 as the cells, convolute, woolly below. Nutlets deeply concave on 

 the back and with a central row of tubercles, tuberculate on the sides. 



Nile Land. Somaliland: at Adda Galla and Lafarug, James Sf Thrupp ! 

 Dooloo, Miss Edith Cole ! and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 



15. T. Bentii, Baker d.- C. H. Wright. An erect herb, about 

 1 ft. high. Stem densely covered with white hairs interspersed with 

 larger patent bristles. Leaves opposite, ovate, 2|- in. long, nearly 2 in. 

 wide, hispid, and with scattered bulbous-based hairs above, simply but 



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