50 lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). [Trichodesma. 



•densely hispid beneath ; petiole up to 1 in. long. Cymes terminal, 

 paniculate. Calyx 2^- lin. long ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 1 lin.- wide 

 at the base, hairy outside and on the margin. Corolla 4-5 lin. 

 in diam. ; tube very short ; lobes broadly triangular, acuminate, sides 

 rounded and overlapping near the base. Anthers pilose on the 

 back, 1 lin. long ; awns as long as the anthers, contorted at the apex. 



Nile Land. Nubia : about 21° N. lat., sea-coast to between 3000 to 4000 ft., 

 Bent ! 



16. T. arenicola, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 143. Rootstock 

 thick. Stems pubescent, 8-16 in. long. Leaves sessile, lanceolate 

 -or ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, entire, acute, clothed on both surfaces 

 with scattered hairs, some of them bulbous-based. Flowers 6-15 in 

 a terminal cyme ; pedicels ^-1 in. long. Calyx divided almost to the 

 base, very accrescent, above ^ in. long in flower ; lobes ovate, rounded 

 at the base. Corolla-lobes broadly ovate, shortly mucronate. Anthers 

 densely pilose on the back ; connective subulate, membranous, glabrous. 

 Nutlets smooth in front, velvety on the back, edged with narrowly 

 triangular pilose teeth. — Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 348. 



lower Guinea. Southern Angola : by the River Chitanda, between Goud- 

 kopje and Kakele, 3900 ft., Baum, 195 ! near Huilla, 5600 ft., Dekindt, 40 ; and 

 vithout precise locality, Antunes, 120, 317. 



17. T. dekindtianum, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 142. A 



perennial, 8-16 in. high. Stems erect, woody below and hirsute with 

 hooked bulbous-based hairs, glabrescent above. Leaves sessile, lanceo- 

 late, narrowed at the base, acute, entire, hispid on both surfaces, 

 1-li in. long, 2-4 lin. broad. Racemes 4-10-flowered. Flowering 

 calyx 6 lin. long, deeply lobed ; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, not cordate 

 at the base; fruiting calyx 1 in. long, 9 lin. across; lobes broadly 

 ovate, acute, cordate at the base. Corolla 1 in. or rather more across ; 

 lobes broadly ovate, acuminate. Anthers densely pilose on the back, 

 about 6 lin. long. Nutlets about 6 lin. long and 5-6 lin. broad, smooth 

 on the face, velvety on the back, surrounded by inflexed glochidiate 

 teeth. — Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 348, fig. 106. 



Lower Guinea. Southern Angola : in the Maramba near Knelleis, between 

 Kassinga and the River Kubango, 4500 ft., Baum, 234 ! hills near Luala, Dekindt, 

 77. 



18. T. Baumii, Giirke in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 349. A 

 shrub, about 3 ft. high ; stem hirsute, not much branched. Leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate, entire, acute, with strigose adpressed hairs on both 

 surfaces. Peduncles up to 17 lin. long, hirsute. Calyx divided almost 

 to the base, with adpressed hairs outside ; lobes 5, narrowly triangular, 

 acuminate, 6 lin. long. Corolla blue ; tube about 3 lin. long ; lobes 5, 

 5 lin. long, contorted in bud, acuminate. Anthers elongated at the 

 apex, contorted. Fruit unknown. 



lower Guinea. Southern Angola : near Manonge, on the upper part of the 

 River Kwebe, 4400 ft., Baum, 844 ! 



