BORAGINEJE. XXXV. Heniotrorium. 
erect, strict; leaves lanceolate, beset with incumbent hairs, 
with undulated, revolute margins ; spikes conjugate and com- 
pound, lateral and terminal. h.G. Native of the kingdom of 
Morocco. Stem hispid. Branches beset with incumbent pili, 
as well as the leaves, rather hispid. Spikes at first horizontal. 
Calyx grey, hispid, with ciliated segments. Corolla large; 
tube nearly twice as long as the calyx, beset with white hairs 
above; limb undulately curled. Carpels wrinkled, glabrous. 
Nearly allied to H. undulàtum. 
Morocco Turnsole, or Heliotrope. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1823. 
Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 
44 H. AuBAiNz'NsE (Fres. fl. egypt. et arab. p. 168.) plant 
clothed with glandular hairs ; stem shrubby at the base, branch- 
ed, clothed with canescent villi; leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceo- 
late, pilose, with undulated margins; spikes almost solitary, 
bractless, spiral while young ; tube of corolla twice as long as 
the calyx. h.G. Native of Arabia, at Thal Ambain. 
Ambain Heliotrope, or Turnsole. Shrub. 
Sect. II. OnrnósrAcnys (from opSoec, orthos, straight ; and 
araxuc, stachys, a spike; the spikes of flowers are straight at 
first, not circinnate or revolute as in the preceding section.) R. 
Br. prod. p. 493. Spikes generally solitary, bracteate or leafy, 
not spiral or circinnate in the young state. Bracteas opposite 
the flowers, or nearly so. 
45 H. srevirorium (Wall. fl. ind. 2. p. 2.) plant suffruticose, 
covered with adpressed greyish hairs ; stems prostrate, densely 
tufted; leaves approximate, sessile, narrow-linear, somewhat 
faleate, with recurved margins, canescent; racemes solitary, 
terminal, slender, straight: with short, ovate bracteas, opposite 
to, and equalling the pedicels, linear; calyx and nuts strigose. 
d4?. F. Native of Nipaul, in the vicinity of Katmandu and 
Gosainsthan. H. compáctum, D. Don, prod. fl. nep. p. 101. 
Plant greyish. Racemes at first slightly recurved. ^ Corolla 
white, twice as long as the calyx, with a yellow tube; limb 
plicate; segments slightly crenulated. 
Short-leaved Turnsole, or Heliotrope. 
1824. Pl. prostrate. 
46 H. saricoipEs (Cham. in Linnea, 4. p. 117.) plant shrub- 
by, canescent from silky strige ; branches terete, slender; 
leaves scattered, nearly sessile, oblong, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
keeled from the nerve, with reflexed margins ; spikes simple, 
terminal, revolute, sometimes lateral, and opposite the leaves, 
bracteolate, dense flowered; flowers sessile; calycine segments 
ovate, acute, nearly equal; tube of corolla equal in height to 
the calyx; limb strigose outside; carpels strigose, shorter than 
the calyx; anthers connivent and cohering at top. k. S. 
Native of Brazil. A small trailing or creeping shrub, with the 
habit of Salix incubdcea, and S. répens. Said to be nearly 
allied to H. Ottònis and H. fruticósum. 
Willow-like Heliotrope. Shrub creeping. 
47 H. Orronis (Lehm. asper. p. 59.) stem shrubby; leaves 
linear-lanceolate, erect, with revolute edges, canescent from 
somewhat silky, incumbent hairs, or strige ; spikes solitary, 
terminal, elongated, bracteate. h. S. Native of Caraccas. 
H. strictum, H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. p. 87. Tour- 
nefórtia monostàchya, Willd. rel. ex Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 
540. Stem branched at top.  Carpels rather hispid, Branches 
linear, acuminated, hispid. Calyxes unequal. 
Otto’s Heliotrope. Shrub 13 foot. 
48 H. rruricosum (Lin. spec. p. 187. amoen. 4. p. 394.) stem 
shrubby ; leaves linear-lanceolate, pilose, recurved at apex; 
spikes lateral, nearly sessile, solitary, bracteolate. p. S. Na- 
tive of South America. Lam. ill. no. 1766. Lehm. asper. p. 
VOL. IV. 
Fl. June, July. Clt. 
361 
60. "Tournefórtia hümilis, Swartz. obs. bot. p. 55, exclusive of 
the syn. of Lin. Willd. spec. 1. p. 793. H. demíssum, Roem. 
et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 27.—Plum. pl. amer. t. 297. f. 2.— 
Sloane, hist. t. 139. f. 4. Stem much branched; branches 
scabrous. Leaves with revolute edges, green above, and hoary 
beneath, from the hairs being more copious. Bracteas linear. 
Flowers on short pedicels.  Peduncles and calyxes pilose. Co- 
rolla white. Stigma capitate. Carpels rather hispid. 
Shrubby Heliotrope. Shrub 2 feet. 
49 H. rerna‘tum (Vahl. symb. 3. p. 21.) stem shrubby ; 
leaves lanceolate, 3 in a whorl, those on the younger branches 
alternate, hoary beneath; spikes terminal, pedunculate, conju- 
gate; bracteas linear. h. S. Native of the West Indies. 
Willd. spec. 1. p. 745. Lehm. asper. p. 61. Branches canes- 
cent from soft hairs. Leaves beset with white callous dots 
above. Lateral spikes, if any, usually simple. Flowers on 
short pedicels. Calyx pilose. Corolla white, large; tube 
longer than the calyx, pilose above; limb plicate. 
Ternate-leaved Heliotrope. Shrub. 
50 H. nínruw (Willd. herb. no. 3247. Lehm. in act. nat. 
scrut. hal. 3. p. 10. asper. p. 62.) stem shrubby, hairy ; leaves 
linear-lanceolate, hairy, hoary beneath, rather soft; spikes 
lateral and terminal, solitary, bracteolate. 5. S. Native of 
Cumana, and New Andalusia, and Brazil, in sandy places. H. 
híspidum, H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. p. 87. Branches 
canescent, pilose. Leaves with revolute edges. Spikes com- 
pact. Bracteas minute. Calyx hairy; tube of corolla longer 
than the calyx, villous under the limb. Carpels rather hispid. 
Hairy Heliotrope. Shrub. 
51 H. roLyeny'LLUM (Lehm. l. c. p. 9. asper. p. 63.) stem 
shrubby, erect, or prostrate ; leaves linear-lanceolate, strigosely 
pilose; spikes terminal, solitary, leafy, recurved at top. h. S. 
Native about the Orinoco, and of Brazil. Cham. in Linnea, 4. 
p. 462. H. folidsum, Willd. herb. no. 3252. Branches stri- 
gose, when young canescent. Leaves very numerous, on short 
petioles. Flowers nearly sessile, opposite the leaves or inter- 
foliaceous. Calyx strigose, unequal. Tube of corolla length 
of calyx, rather pilose ; segments acute, lanceolate. Carpels 
rather hispid. 
Many-leaved Heliotrope. Shrub. 
52 H. rorra‘rum (R. Br. prod. p. 493.) plant annual, strigose 
from decumbent hairs; branches ascending; leaves lanceolate, 
flat; spikes few-flowered; bracteas lanceolate, on short peti- 
oles, twice as long as the calyx. ©. H. Native of New 
Holland, within the tropic. 
Leafy-spiked Heliotrope. Pl. ascending. 
53 H, Arrica‘num (Schum. pl. guin. p. 87.) leaves ovate, 
acuminated at both ends, glabrous; spikes solitary; corollas 3 
times longer than the calyx, with a narrow neck. ©. H. 
Native of Guinea. Stem procumbent, branched, pilose. Co- 
rollas pale blue. 
African Heliotrope. Pl. erect. 
54 H. srricdsum (Willd. spec. 1. p. 743. Pers. ench. 1. p. 
743. Schum. pl. guin. 86.) stem shrubby, ascending; leaves 
linear-lanceolate, strigosely papillose ; spikes leafy : lateral ones 
solitary : terminal ones conjugate. b. S. Native of Guinea. 
Lehm. asper. p. 64. Root fusiform. Stem covered with ad- 
pressed white hairs, branched. Leaves on short petioles, beset 
with white adpressed hairs on both surfaces, which rise from 
papilla. Bracteas sessile, lanceolate, length of flowers, which 
are distant. Corolla white, with a tooth between each of the 
segments. Carpels strigose. 
Strigose Heliotrope. Shrub 4 to 1 foot. 
55 H. myosotolpes (Lehm. in act. nat. serut. hal. 3. p. 18. 
asper. p. 65.) stem frutescent, erect, purplisb; leaves linear, 
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