Trichodesma.] lxxxix. boragine.e (baker and wright). 51 



19. T. zeylanicum, E. Br. Prodr. 496. Annual. Stems erect, 

 3-4 ft. high ; branches pubescent and with scattered bulbous-based 

 hairs. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, subsessile, oblong- 

 lanceolate, tapering at the base, 1-8 in. long, pubescent and with 

 bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces ; lower leaves larger, shortly 

 petioled. Cymes lax, terminal ; pedicels long, slender, densely hairy, 

 patent hispid. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, not cordate at the base, very 

 hairy on both surfaces, finally 6-9 lin. long. Corolla slightly longer 

 than the calyx, 6 lin. in diam., blue with a white eye ; lobes 1^ lin. 

 long, 3 lin. broad, rounded at the sides, produced at the apex into an 

 acumen 1 lin. long. Anthers lanceolate, 1 J lin. long ; awn nearly 

 as long as the cell, contorted, hairy below. Ovary conical, glabrous ; 

 style long subulate. Nutlets ovoid, compressed, slightly rugose on 

 the ventral side, smooth, £rey and glossy on the back, 2 lin. long. — DC. 

 Prodr. x. 172 ; A. Rich.~Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 91 ; Klotzsch in Peters, 

 Reise Mossamb. Bot. 255; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 117; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 4820 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 404 ; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 202 ; C. 

 B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 154; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 352; Gregory, Great Rift Valley, 395. T. kotschyanum, 

 Fenzl ex A.DC. in DC. Prodr. x. 172. Borago zeylanica, Burm. 

 f. Fl. Ind. 41, t. 14, fig. 2; Linn. Mant. 202; Jacq. Ic. t. 314. 

 Pollichia zeylanica, F. Muell. Census, ed. i. 100. Borraginoides zeylanica, 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 720. Boraginella zeylanica, O. Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 435. 



Nile Land. Fazold, Kotschy, 542 ! Khartoum, Henglin. Abyssinia : near 

 Jelajeranne, Schimper, 625 ! Aguar Valley, Schimper, 1025 ! and without precise 

 locality, Schimper, 68 ! 208 ! Jur : Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1295 ! Muru : 

 near the River Bibia, Petherick ! British East Africa : Mele, Kassner, 244 ! jiear 

 Mombasa, Scott-Elliot, 6126! Shimoni, Whyte ! Witu, Nzaoi, and Iveti 

 Mountains, Gregory . 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; between Mumpullo and Nene, Welwitsch , 

 5301! 



Kozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; " Kwa Kinabo," 

 T olkens, 1982 ! Usambara ; Lutindi, Hoist, 3452 ! Usaramo ; Dar es Salaam, 

 Hildebrandt, 1219 ! Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, Kirk ! 

 near Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 53 ! 368 ! British Central Africa : Upper Shire Valley, 

 Metier! Nyasaland ; near Zomba, Whyte! Kondowe to Karonga, Whyte! near 

 the Umbaka River, Scott ! 



Also in the Mascarene Isles, India, Malaya, and Australia. 



9. CYNOGLOSSUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 848. 



Calyx deeply 5-lobed, not accrescent. Corolla-tube short, closed with 

 scales at the throat ; lobes 5, orbicular, patent, imbricate; stamens 5, in- 

 serted in the corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; anthers oblong, obtuse. 

 Ovary with 4 depressed lobes ; style long or short ; stigma minute, capi- 

 tate ; ovules horizontal. Nuts 4, depressed, convex on the back, muricate. 

 Seeds straight or slightly curved ; cotyledons broad, flat ; radicle short. — 

 Perennial or biennial herbs. Leaves many, alternate ; radical petioled. 



