14 LXXXIX. BORAGINEyE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [Cordid 



18. C. Goetzei, Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 307, 461. An erect 

 shrub, 13-16 ft. high. Leaves distinctly petioled, elliptic, 3-4 in. long, 

 scarcely twice as long as broad, obtuse, entire, membranous, glabrous 

 on both surfaces. Cymes lax. Calyx tubular, glabrous or nearly so 

 outside with adpressed silky pubescence inside, 2 lin. long, irregularly 

 3-4-toothed. Corolla white ; tube 2 lin. long ; lobes 4, elliptical, obtuse, 

 2 lin. long. Filaments 1 lin. long, hairy in the lower part ; anthers 

 broadly ellipsoid. Ovary -g-yV in. long, conical; style-arms linear, lj 

 lin. long. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Khutu; between Kisaki and the 

 River Ruaha, 1200-1300 ft., Goetze, 365 ! 



19. C. Myxa, Linn. Sp. PI. eel. 1, 190. A shrub or tree up to 

 40 ft. high; stem cylindrical, nearly 1 ft. in diam.; branchlets glabrous 

 or nearly so. Leaves from oblong and dentate to orbicular and entire, 

 very variable in size, glabrous above, glabrous or pubescent beneath ; 

 petiole 6-18 lin. long. Cymes in terminal (rarely axillary) lax panicles ; 

 branches slender, glabrous, pseudodichotomous ; pedicels 1 lin. long. 

 Calyx tubular-campanulate, sparingly hairy outside, densely clothed with 

 short hairs inside, 2 lin. long; lobes short, rounded. Corolla white ; 

 tube cylindrical, as long as the calyx; lobes 5, oblong, about 2 lin. long, 

 obtuse or emarginate. Stamens inserted at the corolla-throat ; filaments 

 hairy a short distance above the base. Style-arms linear. Fruit ovoid, 

 apiculate by the persistent style-base, 6 lin. in diam., seated on the 

 enlarged widely campanulate calyx. — Jacq. Fragm. t. 103, fig. 3 ; Del. 

 Fl. Egypte, 191, t. 19, figs. 1-2 ; Wight, 111. t. 169 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 479 ; 

 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 82, partly ; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 386 ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 136 ; Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 717. 

 C. Sebestena, Forsk. Fl. .ZEgypt.-Arab. lxiii. not of others. C. africana 

 and G. officinalis, Lam. 111. i. 420, t. 96. C. domestica, Both, Nov. PI. 

 Sp. 123. Argyreia arborea, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 135. 



IVXozamb. Uist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; between Lupata 

 and Sena, Kirk / British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Kavonga, Scott ! Boruma 

 on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 866 ! 



Also in Egypt, Madagascar, Tropical Asia, and Queensland. 



20. C. Heudelotii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27. Very near 

 C. Myxa. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, oblong, acute, 3-4 

 in. long, li-2 in. broad at the middle, thin not at all scabrid above, 

 glabrous beneath ; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side ; petiole slender, 

 glabrous, 1-1 h in. long. Cymes terminal and axillary, lax, ample. 

 Calyx funnel-shaped, glabrous, \ in. long; teeth 4, small, ovate. 

 Corolla-limb 3 lin. in diam. ; lobes 4, oblong, obtuse, twice as long as the 

 tube. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat and shorter than the lobes ; 

 filaments hairy in the lower part. Ovary conical ; style-arms very 

 short. Fruit ovoid, 6 lin. long, 4 lin. in diam., seated upon the enlarged 

 hardened broadly campanulate calyx. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Lagos : Yoruba forests, Barter, 

 3425! 



