164 C. BOEAGiNBiB. (C. B. Clarke.) [Trichodesma. 



on the nerves otherwise glabrous, flowers and fruit nearly as of T. indieum. 

 DC. JP)-odr. X. 172 ; Dalz. ^ Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 173. T. inaequale, Edgeio. PI. 

 Banda, 51. 



Throughout W. India ; from Scinde, Eajpootana, and Central India to Malabar ; 

 frequent. 



Probably a mere form of T. indieum. Corolla-lobes ovate, suddenly acute, 

 twisted to the left in the bud. Anthers exsert, tips of the connective finally twisted. 



3. T. africanum, Br. Pi-odr. 496 ; bristly with hairs springing from 

 tubercles, leaves ovate-oblong lower lohg-petioled, calyx-lobes in fruit cordate 

 at the base, staminal cone laxly hairy on the back. DC. Prodr. x. 173 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, iv. 280. Borago africana, lAnn. Sp. PI. 197. B. veri'ucosa, Forsk, 

 Fl. JEg-Arah. 41. 



PuKJAJB and Scinde; Aitchison, Stocks, &e.— Distbeb. Cabul, Persia, Arabia, 

 Tropical Africa to Senegal. 



Stem and leaves as of T. indieum, but more harshly hispid. Sacemes mostly 

 lateral, often bipartite and snbebracteate. Calyx-lobes ^ in., in fruit J-f in. Corolla 

 tube J in. ; lobes | in., ovate, acute. Nutlets ^ in. ; margin prominent, glochidiate. 



*• Calyx-lobes in fruit ovate or rounded at the base. 



4. T. zeylanicum, Br. Prodr. 496 ; leaves oblong obtuse or acute at 

 the base hairy beneati, racemes lateral and terminal, nutlets J in. ovoid-oblong 

 obscurely margioed. WaU. Cat. 935 ; DC. Prodr. x. 172 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4820 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 404. Borago zeylanica, Linn. Mant. 202 ; Jacq. Ic. PI. 

 Par. ii. t. 314 ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 41, t. 14, fig. 2. Leiocarya Kotschyana, Hoehst. 

 in Flora, 1844, 30. 



Deccan Peninsttla and Ceylon : common. — Disteeb. Malaya, Australia, Mas- 

 carene Islands. 



Habit of T. indieum. Leaves sessile or subpetiolate, bristly with hairs springing 

 from tubercles on the upper surface. Bacem£s usually denser, more softly villous 

 than in T. indieum. Flowers and fruit about the same size as in T. indieum. 



5. T. khasianum, Clarke ; very large, leaves elliptic narrowed at both 

 ■ends or petioled sparsely hairy beneath, racemes forming large terminal corymbs, 

 nutlets J in. widely margined. 



Khasia ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 5989), &e. 



Apparently a stout, sparingly setose, shrub. Leaves 7 by 2^ in., mostly opposite, 

 petioled, scabrous tuberculate above, rugose subglabrate beneath. Corymbs with 50- 

 100 flowers, nearly ebracteate. Calyx-lobes in the bud f by |in., rusty-pubescent, in 

 fruit 1 by f in., papery. Cordla-tvhe ^ in. ; lobes ^ in., lanceolate-linear. Anther- 

 eone nearly J in., patently white-hairy. — Bemote in habit from the other Indian 

 species ; a still larger species has lately been discovered by Dr. Balfour in Socotra. 



8. ACTXNOCAIIYA, Bmth. 



A slender, diffiise herb, sparsely strigose or ijearly glabrous. Leaves alter- 

 nate, obovate-oblong, entire. Flowers minute, solitary on axillary pedicels. 

 Calyx deeply 5-lobed, hardly enlarged in fruit. CoroUa-tube short ; scales in 

 the throat 5, very small ; lobes 5, obtuse, spreading, imbricate in the bud. 

 Stamens 5, filaments short ; anthers small, ovate, obtuse. Ovary deeply 4- 

 lobed ; style short, from the base of the lobes, stigma small. Nutlets 4, obo- 

 void-oblong, divaricate, with small spines on all sides, attached to the small 

 carpophore only at their minute lower ends. 



