60 lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). [Lobostemon. 



white, arranged in scorpioid spikes or racemes. — Leurocline, S. Moore 

 in Journ. Bot. 1901, 257. 



Species about 50 ; all the others in South Africa. 

 Flowers pale yellow . . . . . . . 1. L. somalensis. 



Flowers blue. 



Flowers in a small dense terminal head . . 2. L. cryptocephalum. 



Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves . 3. L. lithospermoides. 



1. L. somalensis, Franchet, Serf. Somal. 44. Shrubby at the 

 base, but little branched. Branchlefcs glabrous, g'Jaucescent. Stem- 

 leaves small, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, with verrucose dots over the 

 upper surface. Racemes lax, bracteate ; pedicels very short. Calyx- 

 lobes unequal, obtuse, 2 smaller, linear. Corolla pale yellow when 

 dried ; tube slender, twice as long as the calyx ; limb obliquely 

 truncate. Stamens included. Nutlets trigonous, acutely tubercled. — 

 Leurocline somalense, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1901, 258. 



Wile land. Somaliland, Sevoil. 



2. L. cryptocephalum, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 30. Peren- 

 nial herb. Stem erect, simple, hairy, 1ft. long, regularly leafy up to the 

 top. Leaves sessile, linear-oblong, entire, hispid on both sides, the 

 central ones 1 in. long, the upper and lower smaller. Flowers in 

 a small dense terminal head hidden by the ascending upper leaves. 

 Calyx hispid, 3 lin. long ; lobes lanceolate. Corolla bright blue ; tube 

 half as long again as the calyx, hairy at the throat ; limb under 3 lin. 

 in diam. ; lobes suborbicular, rather unequal. Stamens not exserted 

 from the corolla-tube. 



XVTozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Uruuguj Fwambo, Carson, 59 ! 



3. L. lithospermoides, Baker. Stem branched, reaching nearly 

 1 ft. in height. Branches erect, slender, glabrous. Leaves sessile, 

 ascending, lanceolate, 6-9 lin. long, glabrous on the upper surface, 

 clothed with strong hairs on the edge and beneath and furnished with 

 white dots near the base. Flowers blue, solitary in the axils of 

 the upper leaves. Calyx 4 lin. long ; sepals lanceolate, hispid on the 

 edge, the posticous smaller than the others. Corolla blue ; tube cylin- 

 drical, glabrous or slightly pruinose outside, villous in the upper part 

 inside, dilated at the throat, twice as long as the calyx ; limb 3-4 lin. 

 in diam. ; lobes orbicular. Filaments very short, the posticous inserted 

 higher than the rest ; anthers oblong. Style bifid at the apex, not 

 exserted from the corolla-tube. Nutlets ovate, obtuse, reddish, a line 

 long. — Leurocline lithospermoides, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1901, 257, t. 

 424, fig. A. 



Wile land. British East Africa: Leikipia, Gregory; Gof, 3900 ft., and 

 between Le' and Tocha, Lord Delamere. 



16. ECHINOCHILOW, Desf. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 852. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments lanceolate, 1 very small or obsolete. 

 Corolla-tube subcylindrical, curved ; throat not closed by scales ; limb 



