54 lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and weight). [Cynoglossum* 



British East Africa : Eldama Ravine and Mau, Whyte ! Kikuyu, Whyte ! Leikipia,. 

 Thomson ! Sawi, Kdssner, 752 ! 



Var. Johnstoni, Baker & C. H. Wright. More robust than the type. Stem 

 shaggy below. Radical leaves oblong, 5 in. long, 1 in. wide; petiole up to 2 in- 

 long, slender. — C. Johnstoni, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 29. 



Mozamb. SSist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft. Johnston/ 

 This species is very closely allied to C. lanceolatum, Forsk., but can be generally 

 recognised by its pedicels being longer and more recurved in fruit. 



7. C. lanceolatum, Forsk. Fl. uEgypt.-Arab. 41. Stems 4-6 ft. 

 high, much branched, densely pilose. Leaves scabrid; upper lanceolate, 

 sessile ; lower oblong-lanceolate, 4-6 in. long, tapering into the petiole- 

 Cymes very lax, ebracteate, finally 5-G in. long ; pedicels very short- 

 Calyx densely hispid, 1 lin. long; tube short; lobes ovate, obtuse- 

 Corolla white, sometimes suffused with blue, 1|- lin. in diam. ; lobes 

 small. Fruit 1^ lin. in diam. ; nutlets covered all over with glochidiate 

 spines. — Lehm. PI. Asperif. 145; DC. Prodr. x. 155 ; Schweinf. Beitr. 

 Fl. Aethiop. 114; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 721. 0. micranthum,. 

 Desf. Tab. ed. i. 220 ; DC. I.e. ] 1!) ; Hook, f . in Journ. Linn. Soc. viil 

 207 ; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 114; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 

 Afr. 353 ; Gregory, Great Rift Valley, 395 ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, FL 

 Cap. iv. ii. 14. C. hirsutum, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iv. 45, t. 489.. 

 Echinospermum cynoglossoides, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 

 Documente, 137, not of Lehm. E '. paniculatum, E. Meyer, I.e. 134. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia : Cape Palmas, Vogel, 18 ! Gold Coast, Lante,. 

 Johnson, 820 ! Lagos, Millen, 130 ! 



Nile land. Abyssinia : near Adowa, Schimper, 297 ! Shoa ; Aliu Amba, 

 Roth, 438 ! Lake Zuai, Wellby ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 343 ! 525 L 

 1007 ! ParJcyns / Quartin- Dillon <f Petit, 191 ! British Somaliland : Ahl 

 Mountains, near Maid, 4600 ft., Hildebrandt, 1415! Niamniam, Schweinf urth, 

 3743 ! Uganda : Usogo villages, Whyte ! Kuwenzori. Scott -Mliot, 7620 ! Nandi,. 

 Scott-Elliot, 6941 ! British East Africa : Kikuyu, ' Whyte ! Ukamba, Scott- 

 Elliot, 6746 ! 6492 ! Ndara, Hildebrandt, 2438 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Loanda ; at Quicuxe, Welwitsch, 5448 ! GolungO' 

 Alto ; near Sange, Welwitsch, 5449 ! Huilla ; hills near Lopollo, Welioitsch y 

 5300! 



DIozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe, Spe/ce 8c Grant! Kili- 

 manjaro, Volkens, 1661 ! Usambara, Buchivald, 227 ! Hoist, 3383 ! British 

 Central Africa : Nyasaland, Scott-Elliot, 8358 ! Whyte, 249 ! Buchanan, 43 ! 46 ! 

 McClounie ! Tropical Transvaal : Shilouvane, Junod, 832 ! 



Also in South Africa, the Orient, India, China, Japan, and Malaya. 



C. platy-phyllum, Klotzsch in Peters, Beise Mossamb. Bot. 254 is probably 

 identical with the common Mauritian C. Rochelia, A. DC, which is likely to occur 

 on the mainland, but we have not seen any specimens. 



10. ANCHUSA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. 855. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft, but little accrescent. Corolla hypocrateriform ; 

 tube straight, cylindrical ; throat closed with scales ; lobes short, patent, 

 obtuse. Stamens 5, inserted above the middle of the corolla-tube, 



