16 LXXXIX. BORAGINE.E (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [Cord'ia. 



subcoriaceous, scabrid above, entire or slightly crenate ; lateral nerves 

 4-5 on each side; petiole 6-12 lin. long. Panicle terminal, dense, 

 shorter than the leaves; flowers polygamous. Calyx tubular, 4 lin. 

 long, irregularly toothed, not sulcate, pubescent outside. Corolla-tube 

 cylindrical, 2|- lin. long ; lobes 4-5, obovate, obtuse, 2\ lin. long. 

 Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat ; filaments f lin. long, glabrous. 

 Ovary ovoid ; style bipartite nearly to the base ; ultimate segments 

 linear, 3 lin. long. — DC. Prodr. ix. 479 ; Giirke in Engl, and Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv, 3A. 83. C. rubra, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 82 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 712. C. Myxa, A. 

 Rich. 1. c. partly, not of Linn. 



Wile land. Eritrea : Barasio Valley, 4900 ft., Schiveinfurth Sf Siva, 709 ! 

 Keren Beccari, 162 ! Abyssinia : near Gaftii, Schimper, 1218 ! near Jelstjeranne, 

 Schimper, 1582 ! Somak, Efat, Roth, 124 (429) ! Darfur : Gebel Serg, Pfund, 

 467! British East Africa: Tola (Tula) River, Kirk/ Kibwezi, Kassner, 711 ! 

 Makindu, Kdssner, 560 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : hilly places near Barra do Dande and along the 

 coast as far as the mouth of the River Cuanza, Welioitsch, 5423 ! Golungo Alto 

 district, Welioitsch, 5431 ! Hereroland, ex Giirke. 



25. C. Stuhlmannii, Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 335. A 

 tree or shrub ; branchlets puberulous. Leaves lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, 2^-3^ in. long, 7-12 lin. broad, acuminate, narrowed to the 

 base, entire or denticulate, thinly coated above, densely beneath, with 

 adpressed hairs ; petiole 5-9 lin. long. Flowers monoicous or dioicous, 

 arranged in lax few-flowered cymes ; pedicels short. Calyx of male 

 flowers cup-shaped, pubescent; teeth 3-5, unequal, obtuse, deltoid, 

 Corolla-tube as long as the calyx, with long hairs at the throat ; lobes 

 4, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Stamens 4 ; filaments exserted from the 

 corolla-tube. — Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 308. 



IVIozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Quiliniane, Sluhlmann, i. 399. 



26. C. dioica, Bojer ex DC. Prodr. ix. 481. A tree; branchlets 

 slender, scabrid. Leaves alternate, obovate or suborbicular, obtuse or 

 obtusely cuspidate, 2^-4 in. long, very scabrid above when mature, 

 more or less pubescent beneath ; petiole 1-2 in. long. Cymes poly- 

 gamous, small, dense, terminal; branchlets scabrid. Calyx funnel- 

 shaped, pubescent outside, 3 lin. long, not sulcate ; lobes 4-5, short, 

 ovate. Corolla-tube cylindrical, as long as the calyx; lobes oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, 2| lin. long, f lin. broad. Stamens inserted in the 

 corolla throat; filaments 1| lin. long, shortly hairy in the part adnate 

 to the corolla. Fruit oblong, apiculate, seated upon the enlarged woody 

 cup-shaped calyx. — Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. 315. 



Itfozamb. Dist. British East Africa: Pemba Island, Bojer, Taita; Ndi, 

 miclebrandt, 2846 ! Zanguebar, Kirk I 



27. C. crenata, Del. Fl. Egypte, 195, t. 20, not of Roem. & ScJmlt. 

 A low tree ; branchlets slender, pubescent when quite young. Leaves 

 obovate-cuneate, obtuse, 2-3 in. long, H in. wide, firm, scabrid above, 



