Cordia.] lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). 15 



21. C. Zedambae, Martelli, Florul. Bogos. 58. — A small tree 

 or shrub. Branchlets slender, glabrous. Leaves alternate, oblong, 

 acute, 2-3 in. long, 1-lJ in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually 

 to the apex and base, thin, not scabrid above, slightly hairy on the 

 nerves on both surfaces. Petiole 6 lin. long, pilose. Cymes lax, 

 terminal, shortly peduncled. Calyx urceolate, 3 lin. long, not sulcate, 

 glabrous outside, densely pubescent inside ; limb scarious, irregularly 

 toothed. Corolla-tube cylindrical, 3 lin. long ; lobes 4-5, oblong, obtuse, 

 2i lin. long, recurved. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat, ^ lin. 

 long, slightly hairy below. Ovary oblong ; style-arms linear. Drupe 

 unknown. 



Nile Land. Eritrea : Shotel, on the slopes of Zedamba (Tsad Ambu) Bee- 

 ear i, 115 ! 



22. C. senegalensis, Juss. in Lam. Encycl. vii. 46. — A tree 

 about 20 ft. high ; branches terete, blackish, glabrous. Leaves ovate 

 or elliptic, acuminate, subacute at the base, 2\ in. long, 1 in. wide, 

 glabrous on both surfaces (scabrid, L>0.), entire ; petiole glabrous, 2 in. 

 long. Panicles short, subracemose, terminal on short branches ; 

 pedicels short ; flowers 4-merous. Calyx ovoid-oblong, 2| lin. long, 

 smooth, coriaceous. Corolla salver-shaped ; lobes oblong. Stamens 

 shorter than the corolla-lobes. Fruit ovoid, apiculate by the persistent 

 style-base.— DC. Prodr. ix. 480. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Adanson, Perrottet. 



Var. Pelida, A. DC. in DC. Prodr. ix. 480. Leaves 2-3 in. long, 15-18 lin. wide, 

 rather obtuse at the base, entire or remotely crenate-dentate at the apex ; petiole 4 lin. 

 long. Flowers unknown. Fruit ovoid, acute, 4—6 lin. long, surrounded in its lower 

 half by the widely campanulate crenate-dentate calyx. — C. Pelida, Perrott. ex 

 A. DC. I.e. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet. 



23. C. Mannii, C. H. Wright.— A tree 30 ft. high ; branchlets 

 glabrous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 5| in. long, 1^-2 in. 

 wide, membranous, glabrous, cuneate at the base ; petiole slender, up 

 to lj in. long. Panicles at or near the apex of the branchlets : flowers 

 polygamous. Calyx tubular, 2 lin. long, glabrous ; lobes 3, broad, 

 obtuse. Corolla-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 1^ in. long; lobes 4, 

 oblong or almost spathulate, reflexed, 2-|- lin. long. Stamens inserted 

 in the corolla-throat ; filaments 2 lin. long, hairy in the lower half ; 

 anther-cells distinct below. Ovary in male flower rudimentary and 

 globose, in hermaphrodite flower conical ; style divided about halfway 

 down, ultimate branches long, linear. — Ehretia acutifolia, Baker in 

 Kew Bulletin, 1894, 28. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Anibas Bay, Mann, 768 ! Johann Albrechtshohe 

 Staudt, 614 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 1332 ! 1681 ! 



24. C. ovalis, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64. — A shrub or 

 small tree ; branchlets, peduncles, petioles and undersurface of leaves 

 fulvo-pubescent. Leaves ovate, obovate or suborbicular, 2-3 in. long, 



