153 C. BoRAGINEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Heliotropium.. 
glabrous chestnut-brown below scabrous or minutely hairy near the apex. DC. 
Prodr. ix. 547; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 397. H. foliatum, Br. l.c. 493; DC. 
l.c. 548. H. ramosum, Roxb.; Wall. Cat. 7015. H. cyrtostachyum, Mig. Fi. 
Ind. Bat. ii. 924. 
S. Deccan PENINSULA and CkxroN.—DisrRiB. Java, Australia. . 
Stems 4-8 in., strict or with ascending branches. Leaves $ by $-à in., not very 
acute. Sepals à in., lanceolate, smaller than many of the bracts. . 
Var. laxiflora; spikes elongate or (in H. zeylanicum, Wall.) filiform. H. laxi- 
florum, DC. l.c. 548; Dalz, d. Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 371. H. zeylanicum, Wall. Cat. 2091, 
not of Lamk.—S, Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon, Heyne, Wight. 
13. H. marifolium, Retz. Obs. ii. 8; leaves lanceolate acute scabrous . 
cauline often large, spikes 1-2 in. dichotomous rigid dense curved conspicuously 
bracteate, fruit 4-lobed chestnut-brown below shortly bristly. 
Deccan Pentnsuta; from Chota Nagpore and Rajpootana to Cape Comorin. 
Stems rigid, divaricately ramous, not intricate. Cauline leaves 1} by iin. harsh. 
Flowers and fruits rather larger than those of H. bracteatum from which it is perhaps 
not distinct. 
Var. Wallichii ; stems decumbent intricately ramous, leaves smaller less harsh, 
spikes elongate, flowers and fruits nearly of H. bracteatum. H. marifolium, Wall 
Cat. 2092; DC. Prodr. ix. 547; Wight Ic. t. 1390 ; Dalz § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 171. 
Cynoglossum marifolium, Roxb, Fl. Ind. i. 457. Bothriospermum ? marifolium, 4. DC. 
Prodr. x. 116.—Throughout India. Distinguished from H. strigosum by its broader 
leaves and 4-lobed fruit. Except in its very ramous habit this does not differ from H. 
bracteatum, var. laxiflora. Anthers ovate with linear twisted tips (as in allied species) 
described by Roxburgh as “ scales ” between the corolla-lobes which error has misled 
A. DC. 
14. H. scabrum, Retz. Obs. ii. 8; procumbent, densely, leafy, leaves lan- 
ceolate acute, flowers subcapitate among leaflike bracts, fruit 4-lobed chestnut 
glabrous or minutely hairy near the apex. Wall. Cat. 7017 ; Wight Ic. t. 1389. 
Deccan Pentysuta and Cerro ; frequent. 
Forming dense tufts with fascicled leaves. Probably not specifically distinct from 
H. marifolium. 
tt Stigma subcapitate, 
15. H. rariflorum, Stocks in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 174 ; erect, branched, 
leaves linear, spikes elongate bracteate, fruit 4-lobed bristly. Boiss. FT. Orient. 
iv. 144. Lithospermum leucophleum, Schweinf. Herb. Afr. Centr. n. 696. 
SciwDE; Kurrachee, Stocks.  PuNiaB; Jhelum, Aitchison.—DISTRIB. Cabul, 
Beloochistan, Nubia, Socotra. 
Branches 6-12 in. Leaves 1 by lin. Spikes 1-3 in.; flowers all sessile; bracts 
scattered, leaflike. Stigma a very depressed cone. Hairs on the fruit adpressed or 
thickly bristly. 
Sect. VI. Heliophytum. Fruit mitriform, subacutely 4-pointed. 
16. H. indicum, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 454; herbaceous, leaves 
petioled ovate subserrate, spikes elongate dense ebracteate, fruit se arating into 
two 2-seeded 2-pointed pyrenes. Bot. Mag. t. 1837. H. anisophyllum, Beauv. 
Fi. Ow. et Ben. ii. 62, t.96. Tiaridium indicum, Lehm. Asperifol. 14 ; Wall, Cat. 
913; Wight IU. t. 171; Chamisso in Linnea, 1829, 452, t. 5, fig. 2; Dalz. $ 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 172. T. anisophyllum, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 364. Heliophy- 
tum indicum, DC. Prodr. ix. 556 ; Fresen. in Mart. Fl. Bras. fasc. 22, 48, t. 10, 
fig. 4. H. velutinum, DC. l. c. 557. 
Throughout IxptA; very common in the moister parts,—Drstrte, Malaya, E. Asia. 
Tropical Africa and America. 
