180 BOTANY OF SOCOTRA. 



common feature in the genus, but is found in another old world species 

 11. Ophioglossum, Stocks (in Aitch. Punj. Cat. 94; Boiss. Flor. Orient, i. 

 145), a plant of Scindh and Beloochistan, and also of Somali Land, whence it was 

 brought by Revoil, and is described and figured as a new species, H. stylosum, 

 by Franchet (Sert. Somal. in Miss. ReVoil 45. t. 4, non H. stylosum, 

 Philippi). With this species our plant has its nearest affinity, but its less 

 woody character, narrow dentate leaves, few flowered cymes, and longer 

 corollas with enclosed styles, distinguish it. 



Franchet has with justice created a new section, Monimantha, of the genus, 

 for the Somali Land plant, though the nomenclature is hardly happy, and into 

 this section our plant also goes. The section has been adopted by Clarke (in 

 Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind iv. 149). 



3. H. undulatum, Vahl Symb. i. 13 ; DC. Prod. ix. 536 ; Boiss. Flor. 

 Orient, iv. 147 ; Clarke in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. 150. 



//. ramosissimum, Sieber. exsicc. /Egypt. ; DC. Prod. ix. 536. 



H. crispmn, Desf. Flor. Atl. i. 151, t. 41. 



H.persicum, Lamk. Diet. i. 393 ; DC. Prod. ix. 537 ; Boiss. Flor. Orient, iv. 147. 



H. marocanum, Lehm. Asper. 5G ; DC. Prod. ix. 536. 



Lithospermum hispidum, Forsk. Fl. iEgypt. Arab. 38. 



Soeotra. Very common. B.C.S. nn. 6, 49, 185, 536. Schweinf. n. 787. 

 Nimmo. 



Distrib. North Africa and south-west Asia. 



A widely distributed species, exhibiting a vast number of forms. We have 

 four sets of specimens from Soeotra, and most of them are more thickly 

 clothed with hairs than is common in the species. 



Those numbered 6 and 49 agree in habit, being closely branched, compact, 

 woody, prostrate plants, with small leaves and throughout densely hispid, on 

 the younger parts silkily so. The inflorescences are clustered; the calyx 

 5-partite with segments hispid externally ; the corolla, which is whitish in n. 

 6, citron yellow in n. 49, is cut nearly half way down, and is externally 

 strigulose-hispid ; the anthers are oblong-ovate and have a small apiculus ; the 

 stigmatic portion of the style is pyramidal, longer than the basal part and in 

 n. 6 is slightly strigulose, in n. 49 is quite glabrous. No specimens of the 

 species in Kew Herbarium are exactly like this form, but I can fix on no 

 technical characters by which to differentiate it. 



Our n. 185, Schweinfurth's n. 787, is a plant with ascending branches and 

 larger leaves, thoroughly hispid. The calyx is deeply divided and densely 

 hispid ; the corolla, which is citron yellow and is pubescent, has a limb the 

 lobing of which extends through only a quarter of its length ; the anthers are 

 ovate and gradually narrow upwards into longish points ; the stigmatic surface 

 is conical, longer than the basal part, and covered with long appressed hairs. 



