Cordia.] lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). 11 



of the branchlets, alternate, ovate or suborbicular, rounded or cuneate 

 at the base, glabrous, penninerved, not scabrid above, 4-6 in. long ; 

 petiole 2 in. long, slender. Cymes short, axillary, few-flowered. 

 Calyx funnel-shaped, 6 lin. long; tube glabrous or sparingly hairy, 

 not sulcate ; lobes 3-5, short, broad. Corolla white ; tube funnel-shaped, 

 about 1 lin. in diam. at the centre, much longer than the calyx ; limb 

 lit in. in diam.; lobes 5-7, orbicular. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes; 

 filaments glabrous. Stigmas flattened. Fruit red, the size of an acorn, 

 enclosed in the ampulliform accrescent calyx. — DC. Prodr. ix. 477 ; 

 Baker, Fl. Maurit. 200 ; Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. 314 ; Preuss in 

 Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iii. 211. 



Nile Land. Biitish East Africa : Mombasa Island, HildeLrandt, 1984 ! 



IYXozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Forbes ! 



Also in the Mascarene Islands, Seychelles, and through Tropical Asia to 

 Polynesia. 



10. C. chrysocarpa, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27. A tree 

 20-30 ft. high, with the habit of Broussonetia, the leaves crowded at 

 the end of the very thick branchlets. Leaves alternate, ovate or broadly 

 elliptic, rounded or cordate at the base, 6-8 in. long, coriaceous, very 

 scabrid above when mature, penninerved, finely pubescent beneath with 

 raised veinlets ; petiole 2-4 in. long, clothed with fine soft brown 

 spreading hairs. Cymes short, few-flowered. Corolla not seen. Fruit- 

 calyx grey-green, rigid, campanulate, not sulcate, f in. long, 1 in. in 

 diam. Drupe oblong, acute, indurated, bright yellow, 1\ in. long. — 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 713. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; outskirts of the forest in the ascent 

 to Capopa, Welwitsch, 5461 ! 



11. C. Milleni, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27. A large tree, 

 with stout woody branchlets. Leaves cordate-suborbicular, 6-8 in. long 

 and broad, finely pubescent all over beneath ; petiole reaching 3-4 in. 

 long. Cymes forming an ample panicle, with long spreading branches. 

 Calyx \ in. long, densely coated with drab tomentum, faintly ribbed but 

 not sulcate ; tube oblong ; lobes small, ovate, acuminate. Corolla-tube 

 cylindrical, slightly longer than the calyx ; limb i in. in diam. ; lobes 

 ovate-oblong, 4 lin. long, lj lin. broad. Stamens inserted in the corolla- 

 throat; filaments lJr lin. long, with a few long hairs near the base. 

 Ovary conical, gradually tapering into the style, occasionally 6-celled ; 

 style-arms long, slender, fimbriate at the margins. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : Inland forests, Mitten, 12 ! 



According to Millen, " the wood is said not to be attacked by ants." 



12. C. longipes, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27. A tree 20- 

 30 ft. high ; branchlets angular, pilose. Leaves suborbicular, 8-10 in. 

 long, rounded or almost cordate at the base, thin, scabrid above, pilose 

 beneath ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side, prominent beneath ; petiole 

 2-4 in. long, pilose. Cymes terminal ; branches many, pilose. Calyx 

 oblong, 4 lin. long, densely coated with drab tomentum ; teeth 2-5, 



