202 boraginacejb. [ Tournefortia . 
Mauritius and Seychelles, frequent on the shores ; Coin de Mire and Flat 
Island, Horne ! Rodriguez, common on the coral of the shore and the coral islets, 
Balfour ! Through tropics of Old World. Veloutier. Voultie. 
2. T. sarmentosa, Lam. ; DC. Prod. ix. 516. A twining shrub, with 
young branches and leaves beneath finely pubescent. Leaves oblong, 
subcoriaceous, acute, 3-6 in. long, glabrous above, glabrescent or finely 
pubescent beneath ; base rounded; petiole an inch long. Flowers in 
ample peduncled lateral and terminal dichotomous cymes, with many 
crowded curved pilose scorpioid branches. Calyx in. long, 5-partite ; 
teeth linear. Corolla white ; tube twice as long as the calyx ; teeth 
short, obtuse. Stigma large, capitate. Drupe globose, glabrous, the 
size of a small pea. T. viridiflora, Wall. ; DC. loc. cit. 
Mauritius, originally described from specimens gathered by Sonnerat, but not 
seen lately. Seychelles, common in the forests of Mahe, Horne, 247 ! North 
Australia and Tropical Asia. 
3. T. Bojeri, DC. Prod. ix. 516. An erect shrub, with branches and 
leaves below clothed with fine pubescence. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
membranous, 4-6 in. long, narrowed gradually from the middle to the 
base and a long point, soon glabrous above; petiole 1-1| in. long. 
Flowers in long-peduncled terminal dichotomous cymes, with crowded 
curved branches. Calyx silky, 5-partite, in. long ; teeth lanceolate. 
Corolla silky, twice as long as the calyx ; lobes minute, deltoid. Stigma 
and fruit of T. sarmentosa. T. bifida, Bojer, Wort. Maur. 234, non 
Lam. 
Mauritius, in the woods of the Riviere Noire and at Grand Bassin. Endemic. 
T. bifida , Lam. ; Poir. Encyc. v. 360, gathered in Mauritius by Commerson, is 
said to be a shrub with wrinkled grey bark, petioled ovate glabrous coriaceous 
leaves, axillary peduncles bearing two horizontal spikes, a short calyx with 5 obtuse 
teeth, and a tubular elongated cream-coloured corolla. It does not seem to have been 
found by any later botanist. 
4. TRICHODESMA, R. Br. 
Calyx of five distinct large acute foliaceous sepals. Corolla funnel- 
shaped ; lobes deltoid. Stamens inserted in the corolla-tube ; anthers 
persistently connivent in a cone surrounding the stigma, tapering into 
a long point. Ovary 4-celled ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. Fruit 
of 4 dry stony ovoid erect nuts, fitting into the boat-shaped hollows 
of the receptacle. — Coarse herbs, with rough hairs, opposite leaves, 
and flowers in lax racemes, each pedicel bracteated by a reduced leaf. 
Distrib. Tropics of the Old World. Species about 10. 
Sepals not auricled at the base 1. T. zeylanicum. 
Sepals produced into an auricle on each side at the base . 2. T. indicum. 
1. T. zeylanicum^ R. Br. ; DC. Prod. x. 172. A coarse erect 
much-branched annual, 3-4 feet high, with stem and leaves with 
bristly hairs rising from white calcareous tubercles. Leaves sessile 
