Sericostoma.] lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). 57 



1. S. albidum, Franch. Sert. Somali, 46. A much-branched 

 perennial with short branchlets, and leaves densely clothed with 

 adpressed, whitish bristles. Leaves ascending, sessile, linear, with 

 revolute edges, 3-6 lin. long. Cymes about 2 in. long ; pedicels very 

 short. Calyx very setose, about 1| lin. long ; tube short ; lobes linear- 

 oblong. Corolla-limb 1| lin. in diam. Nuts small, ovoid. 



Nile Land. Sonialiland : Adda Galla and Lafarug, James 8f Thrupp ! and 

 without precise locality, Reooil. 



2. S. verrucosum, Beck in Paulils. Harar. 457, Bot. t. 12, figs. 

 3-6. A small much-branched shrub, with densely leafy branches, 

 clothed with adpressed bristly hairs. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate, cus- 

 pidate, narrowed gradually to the base, 3-4 lin. long, hispid on both 

 sides. Cymes lax, scorpioid, terminal, 2-3 in. long ; bracts linear, 

 shorter than the calyx. Calyx half as long as the corolla, cut down 

 nearly to the base ; lobes linear, obtuse, hispid. Corolla 2 lin. long, 

 blue or lilac, pilose outside, villous within ; tube broadly funnel-shaped, 

 densely hairy at the throat inside ; lobes suborbicular. Nuts ovoid- 

 triquetvous, acuminate, verrucose. 



Wile Land. British Somaliland : Warabod, Hardegger Sf PaulitscJiTce. 



13. MYOSOTIS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 858. 



Calyx 5-lobed, but little accrescent ; lobes narrow. Corolla hypo- 

 erateriform ; tube straight, short, cylindrical, without scales at the 

 throat; lobes 5, orbicular, patent, contorted. Stamens included in the 

 corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; anthers oblong, obtuse or apiculate. 

 Ovary with 4 distinct lobes inserted on the narrow gynobase ; style 

 filiform ; stigma entire or 2-lobed ; ovules erect. Nutlets 4, ovoid, 

 erect, bony. Seeds straight ; cotyledons ovate. — Annual or perennial 

 herbs. Stem-leaves alternate. Racemes scorpioid, usually ebracteate. 

 Flowers usually blue. 



Species about 40, chiefly dispersed thx-ough the temperate regions of the Old 

 World. 



Racemes not bracteate . . . . . 1. M. sylvatica. 



Racemes bracteate. 



Corolla white ........ 2. M. abyssinica. 



CorolLi bright blue . . . . . - .3. M. cequinoct talis. 



1. M. sylvatica, Hoffm. Deutsch. Fl. ed. i. 85. Biennial. Stems 

 slender, 1-2 ft. long, thinly clothed with short spreading bristly 

 hairs. Upper stemdeaves sessile, ovate or oblong-lanceolate ; lower 

 obtuse, narrowed gradually to a short petiole. Racemes long, lax, 

 ebracteate; lower pedicels much longer than the calyx. Calyx 2 lin. 

 long ; lobes lanceolate ; tube short, with many short spreading bristly 

 hairs. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; limb bright blue, 2 lin. in diam. 

 Nuts ovate, obscurely bordered. — DC. Prodr. x. 107 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. t. 132,2 ; A. Rich. Tent. PI. Abyss, ii. 89 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 351 ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 19. M. arvensis, 



