Bon-aginoides] lxxxvi. boeagine^. 721 



HuiLLA. — A perennial herb ; stems several, oblique or nearly 

 ereot ; flowers whitish blue. In rooky pastures amidst low bushes, 

 between Mumpulla and Nene, sparingly ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 5301. 



2. B. physaloides. 



Fi'iedrichsthalia physcdoides Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. 7 Dec, p. 54 

 (1839). Trichodesma physaloides Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 173 

 (1846). T. AmbcMxihsis Welw. Apontam. p. 589, n. 73 (1859). 

 Boraginella amhacensis and B. pliysalodes 0. Kuntze, I.e. 



Ambaca. — A glaucescent herb, 2 to 3 ft. high ; root perennial ; 

 stems numerous, ascending, branched in a paniculate manner and 

 flowering above ; leaves very bright green, rough ; flowers of a very 

 deep clear blue colour, handsome, nodding ; calyx enlarged after the 

 flowering, vesicular-inflated ; fertile nucules (by abortion) 2, closely 

 connected, bearing down the aborting nutlets together with the style, 

 at length tumid and disk-like and concealing them, so that the style in 

 the ripe fruit is declinate at the base of the developed nutlets. In the 

 elevated wooded mountainous places at the north-west of the district, 

 near Puri-Oacarambola, plentiful ; fl. and fr. middle of Oct. 1856, in 

 company with Marsea spartioidcs ; Welw. herb. no. 4005. No. 5450. 



Welwitsch strongly recommended this plant to the attention of horti- 

 culturists. A similar plant was collected at Caconda by Anchieta ; it 

 is called there " cafucuto " (Picalho ms.). 



3. B. africana. 



Borago africana L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 138 (1753). Pollichia 

 africana Medik., I.e., p. 248 ; J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. 'PI. Cap. Verd. 

 Ins. p. 227 (1852). Trichodesma africanum E. Br. ex Roem. & Sch. 

 Syst. Veg. iv. p. 69 (1819). Boraginella africana 0. Kuntze, I.e. 



MossAMEDES. — Leaves bright green ; corolla white, yellowish at the 

 bottom, the lobes of the limb acute. In sandy places at the banks of 

 the river Bero ; fl. and fr. beginning of July 1859 ; fr. beginning of 

 June 1860. A small-flowered form. No. 5303 and Coll. Caep. 102. 



Cape de Verde Islands. — Near Villa da Praia in the island of 

 St. Jago, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Jan, 1861. No. 6471. 



4. B. Medusa. 



Trichodesma Medusa Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 29. 



HuiLLA. — A herb, probably annual, 4 ft. high, strongly branched, 

 with the habit of Echium ; stems several, leaves subcoriaceous, bright 

 green ; flowers clear blue ; nutlets 2 or 3, rarely 4. In rather dry 

 thickets on the Humpata plateau, rather rare ; fl. 23 April 1860. In 

 company with Franchetella arhorescens 0. Kuntze, var stenopliylla ; 

 Welw. herb. no. 2508. No. 6302. 



The same plant was found by Anchieta at Caconda. 



6. CYNOGLOSSUM Tourn., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. 848. 



1. C. lanceolatum Forsk. PI. ^gypt.-Arab., p. 41 (1775). 



LOANDA.— At Quicuxe ; fl. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 6448. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An erect, hispid, bright green, rather rigid, annual 

 or biennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, with the aspect also of an Echino- 

 spermum ; branches spreading ; flowers minute, milk-white ; calyx 

 5-clef t ; the lobes obtuse, hispid-cihate ; corolla urceolate-infundibuli- 

 form ; the tube short, ample, dilated ; the segments of the limb 

 rounded-obtuse, flattened at the time of the flower ; the throat crowned 



