Heliotropium.| UXXXIX. BORAGINEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 35 
to both ends, entire, flat, clothed with adpressed bristly hairs. Spikes 
lax, 5—8-flowered ; bracts foliaceous, larger than the calyx. Corolla 
longer than the calyx, thinly strigillose; throat naked. Style very 
short; stigma with a dilated base and acuminate apex. Nuts 4, slightly 
hairy, acuminate. 
West Tropical Africa. Quoja, Bacle. 
8. H. europzum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 130, Annual. Stems erect. 
much branched, clothed with short whitish hairs. Leaves thin, flat, 
oblong or ovate, obtuse, petioled, densely shortly hairy on both sides, 
Spikes ebracteate, at first short, dense, finally laxer and about 2 in. long... 
Calyx 1 lin. long, very hairy; tube very short ; lobes lanceolate. Corolla- 
tube hairy, not longer than the calyx; lobes small, orbicular. Style 
short, glabrous; stigma with a produced conical apex. Nuts rugose, 
pubescent.—Plenck, Ic. t. 74 (stigma wrongly drawn); DC. Prodr. ix. 
534 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 116. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: near Jaja, Schimper, ex Schweinfurth. 
Also in North Africa, South Europe, and the Orient. 
9. H. pterocarpum, Hochst. d Steud. ex DC. Prodr. ix. 552. 
Annual. Stems short, spreading, slender, densely clothed with whitish 
bristly hairs. Leaves small, oblong, sessile or shortly petioled, thick, 
crisped on the margin, densely hispid on both sides. Spikes short, 
ebracteate, very dense, much curved. Calyx densely hispid, 2 lin. long ; 
tube short ; lobes oblong, free nearly to the base, or more or less united, 
3 lin. long. Corolla-tube narrowly campanulate ; lobes small, orbicular. 
Stamens inserted just below the middle of the corolla-tube; anthers 
oblong. Stigma conical, as long as the glabrous style, together 1 lin. 
long. Nuts glabrous, cohering in pairs, margined with a broad horny 
wing, with a rounded sinus at the apex.—Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 
1875, 168. Heliophytum pterocarpum, DC. Prodr. ix. 552. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: near Saati, Schweinfurth & Riva, 365! near Massowa, 
Hildebrandt, 721 ; and British Somaliland near Lasgori, Hildebrandt, 846 (ex Vatke). 
Hamfila Bay, Terracciano. 
Also in Arabia and Socotra. 
Resembles H. undulatum, Vahl, in an early stage, but the fruit is totally 
different. 
10. H. curassavicum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1,130. Annual. Stems 
slender, glabrous, prostrate. Leaves linear-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, 
rather fleshy, narrowed to a short petiole, not at all crisped, the lower 
1-1} in. long. Spikes usually in pairs, moderately dense, ebracteate, 
finally 2-3 in. long. Calyx glabrous, 1 lin. long; tube none: segments 
ovate. Corolla-tube not longer than the calyx ; lobes oblong. Style very 
short; stigma large, umbrella-shaped, apex not produced. Fruit 
globose, not longer than the calyx; nuts 4, glabrous.—DC. Prodr. ix. 538; 
Bot. Mag. t. 2669 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 718; C. H. Wright 
in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 7. . 
