25. 

 26. 



27. 



C. Stuhhnannii. 

 C. dioica. 

 C. crenata. 



28. 



29. 



C. guineensis. 

 C. quarensis. 



30. 

 31. 



32. 



C. pilosissima. 

 C. somaliensis. 

 C. Bothii. 



8 LXXXIX. BORAGINE^E (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [Cordici. 



tff Panicles not lax in flower. 

 Calyx pubescent outside. 



Filaments glabrous .... 24. C. ovalis. 

 Filaments hairy. 



Calyx cup-shaped .... 

 Calyx funnel-shaped 

 Calyx tubulHr-campanulate 

 Calyx tubular, constricted at the 

 mouth ..... 

 Calyx tomentose outside 

 Calyx pilose outside. 



Leaves ovate or suborbicular 

 Leaves oblanceolate-oblong 

 ** Leaves opposite or subopposite .... 



1. C. abyssinica, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64. — A medium- 

 sized tree ; young branchlets clothed with drab tomentum. Leaves 

 ovate or suborbicular, up to 7 by 5 in., more or less rounded at the 

 base, subcoriaceous, scurfy above when young, not very rough, pubescent 

 beneath ; lateral nerves about 7 pairs ; petiole up to 2 in. long. Cymes 

 scorpioid, collected into an ample terminal panicle ; branches and calyx 

 drab-tomentose. Calyx deeply 10-sulcate, tubular- cam panulate, 3 lin. 

 long ; teeth broadly deltoid, cohering in bud. Corolla funnel-shaped, 



9 lin. in diam., 3 times as long as the calyx ; lobes short, rounded, 

 undulate at the margins. Stamens much shorter than the corolla; 

 filaments hirsute at the base. Style slightly longer than the stamens. 

 Fruit ovoid, 6 lin. in diam., smooth. — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 80; 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 117; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop Afr. 

 351. Varronia abyssinica, DC. Prodr. ix. 469. Calyptraria africana, 

 Lam. ex DC. I.e. 



TTile Land. Eritrea: near Acrur, 6200 ft, Schiveinfurth Sf Biva, 1125! 

 Abyssinia : near Adowa, Schimper, 285 ! 1935 ! north Tigre, Steudner, 858 ! Amna 

 Sea, Schimper ! Makhfoot, Roth, 428! and without precise locality, Quartin Billon 

 (Sf Petit, 195 ! Schimper, 848 ! Galabat : by the River Gendua, Schweinfurth, 

 1499 ! Sennar : Fazokl, Kotschy, 466 ! Kordof an : Bara village, Kotschy, 306 ! 

 Blue Nile near Abu Shendy, Muriel, L, 30 ! Uganda : Buwenzori; Wind Valley, 

 6000-7000 ft., Scott-Ellioi, 7841 ! 



Mozamb. Sist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Blantyre, Buchanan, 

 89 ! Namasi, Cameron, 7! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 35V! 1146! 



Var. /3 aculifolia, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Al>y>s. ii. 80. Leaves elliptic, acute at the 

 base or at both ends. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 714. 



Lower Guinea. Angola: GolungoAlto; on the banks of the Elver Quia- 

 poze, Welwitsch, 5433 ! 



Also in Arabia. 



2. C. Holstii, Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 335, t. 41.— A tree 

 20 ft. high, with the habit of TiliOj but with a rounder crown ; young 

 branchlets pubescent. Leaves suborbicular or broadly ovate, broadly 

 rounded or subcordate at the base, entire, subcoriaceous, 3-5 in. long, 

 yellow scurfy on the upper surface when young, soon glabrous, densely 

 yellow tomentose beneath ; petiole 1-1 J in. long. Cymes 3-5-flowered, 

 in lax terminal panicles; branchlets and calyx densely tomentose. 



