Heliotropium.] C. BORAGINER. (C. B. Clarke.) 153 
Annual, hirsute. Stems 6-18 in. Leaves alternate or subopposite, 1-4 in., more 
or less woolly. Spikes 1-8 in., mostly leaf-opposed. Sepals 3, in., linear. Corolla- 
tube 4 in., narrow-cylindric ; lobes small, round, erenate. Stigma conoid-linear. Fruit 
3 in., ovoid, ribbed, soon separating into 2 mitrelike pyrenes; each pyrene with 2 
cavities in addition to the seed-bearing cells. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
H. Roxsuncnir, Spreng. Syst. cure post. 54; erect, ramous, hairy, leaves petioled 
ovate-oblong, spikes terminal panicled secund, tube of the corolla long and gibbous. 
DC. Prodr. ix. 549. H. paniculatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 2, not of R. 
Br.—Currracone, Roxburgh. Known only from Roxburgh’s description. Possibly, 
as Roxburgh did not live to publish his own mss., this was his first description of 
Tournefortia Roxburghii (afterwards described fully under Lithospermum), which he 
may have preserved for reference. This explanation applies certainly to some dupli- 
cate species in Roxburgh's posthumous work. It can hardly be H. zeylanicum, Lamk. 
(as Rottler supposed) because that species is not known in Chittagong. 
7. TRICHODESMA, 7r. 
Coarse, hispid herbs. Leaves opposite, upper alternate, entire. Pedicels 
axillary, 1-flowered, going off into terminal racemes by the gradual reduction of 
the floral leaves. Calyx deeply 5-merous; lobes triangular-lanceolate, in fruit 
enlarged. Corolla-tube campanulate-cylindric, throat without scales; lobes 5, 
twisted to the left, a gland or depression near the base of each. Stamens 5, 
filaments short ; anthers elongate, lanceolate, connivent in a cone; connectives 
more or less hairy on the back, tips excurrent at length twisted. Ovary 4-celled ; 
style terminal filiform, stigma small. Fruit ellipsoid, sub-4-ridged; nutlets 
ovoid-oblong, smooth, shining on the back, scabrous, slightly or strongly mar- 
g£ined on the inner face, closely adnate by their whole inner face to the carpo- 
phore below the style, finally separating.—Species 10; in tropical and warm- 
temperate Africa, Asia, and Australia. 
* Calyx-lobes in fruit cordate or hastate at the base. 
l. T. indicum, Br. Prodr. 496; bristly with hairs springing from 
tubercles and also more or less villous, leaves mostly sessile lanceolate or cordate- 
anceolate, calyx-lobes (at least in fruit) cordate or hastate at the base, staminal 
cone densely closely woolly on the back. Wall. Cat. 932; Wight IU. t. 172; 
DC. Prodr. x. 172; Dalz, §& Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 173; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 280. T. 
Perfoliatum, Wall. Cat, 934. T. hirsutum, Edgew. Pl. Banda, 51. Borago 
indica, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 458. ?B. spinulosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 
$ Wall. ii. 11; DC. Prodr. x. 35. 
Throughout Inpa; common; not in Bengal Plain.—DisrR15. Cabul, Beloochistan, 
*rsia, Mauritius. 
Erect or diffuse. Leaves 1—4 in., tuberculate on the upper surface. Lower pedicels 
often distinctly axillary, 1-flowered. — Calyz-lobes Hi in., more or less grey- or white- 
Cus. Corolla-tube 4 in. ; lobes 4 in., ovate, suddenly acuminate. Nutlets $ in., 
Sometimes very rough on the inner face, obscurely margined.—Edgeworth notes that 
3 "Pago spinulosa is Trichodesma indicum, probably correctly; no one appears to have 
cen à specimen or to know what else it can be. hortl 
AR. subsessilis; leaves subelliptic narrowed downwards many very “Pe y 
Kale. T. subsessilis, Wall. Cat. 933.—British Burma; Prome, Wallich; Pegu, 
2. T. am ; bristly with hairs springing 
. plexicaule, Roth Nov. Sp. 104; bristly 1 
from tubercles, hardly at all villous, leaves sessile cordate-oblong beneath strigose 
