Heliotropium. | C. BORAGINEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 149 
Secr. III. Monimantha, Franch. Stigma with 2 linear branches exsert 
from the corolla. 
3. H. ophioglossum, Stocks; Aitchison Cat. Punjab. 94 ; leaves lanceo- 
late, spikes elongate many-flowered, corolla-lobes round crenate. Boiss. FW. 
Orient. iv. 145. H. stylosum, Franch. Sert. Somal. in Mission Révoil. 45, t. 4, 
not Philippi. 
ScINDE; Kurrachee, Stocks. —Disrmis. Beloochistan, Somali-land. 
Woody, 6-15 in., branched from the base, scabrous-hairy. Leaves 1 by 4 in. tip 
cuneate, base attenuated or subpetioled, subentire, nerves obscure on the upper 
surface. Spikes 2-6 in.; flowers sessile, 1-2-ranked. Sepals 4 in., lanceolate. 
Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the sepals, cylindric, minutely scabrous without. 
Anthers linear, occupying the upper half of the corolla-tube. Style very short ; 
stigma conico-linear, nearly as long as the corolla-tube.  Nutlets 4, is in., glabrous. 
Secr. IV. Piptoclaina. Calyz-lobes short, subvalvate. Fruit enclosed 
by the calyx. 
4. H. supinum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ix. 533; leaves petioled elliptic 
or ovate subobtuse, spikes short woolly, nut solitary (sometimes 2) large rugose 
margined. Sibth. Fl. Grec. t. 107 ; Wight Ic. t. 1987 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Fi. 171; Bunge in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1869, 289 ; Boiss. Fi. Orient. iv. 
127. Piptoclaina supina, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 364. Lithospermum heliotro- 
poides, Forsk. Fl. Æg. Arab. 39. 
PuwiaAB and Upper Gancetic PLAIN; Royle, Edgeworth, &c.—DisrRIB. W. Asia, 
S. Europe, N. Central Africa. . 
_ Annual, prostrate, 1 ft. diam., much branched, shortly softly villous. Leaves 4-13 
m., subentire ; nerves often impressed on the upper surface. Calyx à in., ovate, 
Woolly. Corolla-tube ł in. ovate; lobes very small, round. <Anthers ovate-oblong, 
near the top of the tube. Stigma conical, hairy, nearly as long as the style, included. 
Nutlets $ by 2 in., margins broad, smooth; often 2 in the Indian examples. — — 
Var. malabarica ; nuts usually 4 smaller in horizontal section triangular without 
margins. H. malabarica, Retz Obs. iv. 24; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 454; Wall. Cat. 7014. 
Piptoclaina malabarica, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 364.—W. Deccan Peninsula, from 
Central India (Edgeworth) to Tinnevelly (Wight), frequent. Cutch & Scinde, 
Stocks, Stoliceka.—Bunge (l.c. 287) excludes from the section Piptoclaina all the 
Species with 4 nutlets, and objects to regarding H. malabaricum as a var. of A. 
supinum ; but there is every gradation between the two forms of fruit in the Indian 
collections; an example, marked as collected at Darjeeling in Herb. Griffith, has 2-3 
Or 9-4 nuts, 
Secr. V. Buheliotropium. Sepals narrow, not enclosing the fruit. 
Corolla-lobes plicate or crenulate, neither patent cuspidate nor with closely- 
Incurved mucro. Style short; stigma conic, entire or minutely 2-fid or (in H. 
rarflorum and myosotoides) capitate, included in the corolla-tube. Nutlets not 
Spreading, forming an ovoid 4-pointed mitre-like fruit, with a small hole at the 
apex, 
* Leaves obovate or elliptic, silky scarcely scabrous, subentire ; flowers sessile, 
5. H. Eichwaldi, Steud; DC. Prodr. ix. 535; leaves obovate lower 
long-petioled softly closely hairy, spikes dense ebracteate, flowers 2-ranked, 
calyx deciduous with the fruit, nutlets glabrous minutely verrucose. Bunge in 
Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1869, 292; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 131. H. ellipticum, 
Ledeb,; Eichw. Itin. Casp.-Caucas. 10, t. 4, not of Salt. H. strictum, Ledeb. 
Fl. Ross, iii. 100. H. macrocarpum, Guss. Pl. Inarime, 214, t. 7, fig. 2, and g, 
