Cynoglossum.~\ lxxxix. boragine.e (baker and wright). 53 



pedicels short. Calyx -| lin. long, adpressedly hairy outside ; lobes 

 broadly ovate. Corolla-tube |- lin. long ; lobes h lin. long, rounded. 

 Anthers A lin. long. Nutlets 2 lin. in diam., with a marginal and 

 irregular median row of glochidiate spines. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 7000-8000 ft., Mann, 

 2005 1 



4. C. lancifolium, Hook.f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 207. A herb 

 3-4: ft. high. Stem branched, hispid-pilose. Leaves hispid-pilose, 

 cauline broadly oblong or ovate-lance'olate, acuminate, tapering into a 

 short petiole, 3-4 in. long, 2-2^ in. wide; lateral nerves about 4 pairs 

 almost parallel with the midrib. Cymes in a terminal panicle, up to 

 1 ft. long, bracteate below ; pedicels 6-9 lin. long and deflexed in 

 fruit. Calyx adpressed-hairy outside ; lobes ovate, Uj- lin. long, f lin. 

 wide. Corolla 3 lin. in diam., blue ; tube campanulate ; lobes rounded. 

 Anthers ^ lin. long. Nutlets 5 lin. in diam., with numerous glochidiate 

 spines on the sides and a single row down the face. — Engl. Hochge- 

 birgsfl. Trop. Afr. 353. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 7000-9000 ft., Mann, 

 1266 ! 2004 ! Johnston, 10 ! 57 ! 



5. C. amplifolium, Steud. ex DC. Prodr. x. 149. Stems tall, 

 much-branched, densely and shortly hispid. Leaves large, ovate, acute, 

 upper sessile, lower 5-6 in. long, often 3 in. broad, narrowed to a 

 petiole. Cymes racemose, long, lax, sometimes bracteate at the base ; 

 pedicels 3-6 lin. long. Calyx 1| lin. long, densely hairy ; tube longer 

 than in the other species Corolla-limb bright blue, 3 lin. in diam. 

 Fruit 5 lin. in diam. ; nuts globose, densely muricated. — A. Rich. Tent. 

 PI. Abyss, ii. 91. 



Wile Land. Abyssinia : Samen ; mountains at Enjedcap, Schimper, 564 ! 

 Begemeder ; Jan Meda. Schimper, 1538 ! Ankober, Roth, 435 ! and without precise 

 locality, Schimper, 457! Uganda: Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7975. 



IVXozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 10,000-11,000 ft., 

 Johnston ! 



6. C. cceruleum, Hochst. ex DC. Prodr. x. 148. Stems erect, 

 <often short, densely hispid. Leaves hispid-pilose on both surfaces, the 

 upper lanceolate, 1|-2| in. long, 3-5 lin. broad, sessile, the lower larger, 

 petioled. Cymes panicled, up to 6 in. long, lax, ebracteate ; lower 

 pedicels 2-4 lin. long, much recurved in fruit. Calyx 1 lin. long, very 

 hairy; lobes oblong, acute. Corolla bright blue, 2-3 in. in diam., 

 lobes orbicular. Nutlets densely covered with glochidiate spines all over. 

 —A. Rich. Tent. PL Abyss, ii. 90; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop._ 114. 

 C. abyssinicum, Hochst. ex Schweinf. I.e.; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 353. C. cordifolium, Hochst. ex Schweinf. 1. c. 



Wile land. Abyssinia: Samen; near Enjedcap, Schimper, 512! between 

 Harrar and Addi Abbaba, Well by ! and without precise locality, Quartin- Dillon 

 Sr Petit, 88 ! Schimper, 1194 ! Uganda : Nandi Plateau, Johnston .' Whyte I 



