1130 HELIOTROPIACEAE 
long; lobes triangular, fully 14 as long as the tube: corolla white; tube rather 
short; lobes slightly shorter than the tube: dnd. xserted; anthers about 
mm. long: drupe orange, 1 em. wide. [B. n : l 
U. S.) ]—(SrRoNGBACK.) —Hammocks, Florida Keys — (OF. I. )—AI ly 
Famity 9. HELIOTROPIACEAE — HELioTROPE FAMILY 
Herbs, shrubs, or woody vines. Leaves alternate : blades entire, or 
rarely toothed. Flowers S mostly in scorpioid spikes or racemes. 
Calyx of 5 more or less united sepals. Corolla various, of 5 partially 
united petals. Androecium of 5 stamens, the filaments more or less adnate 
the corolla-tube. Gynoecium 2-4-earpellary. Stigma annular, sur- 
mounted by an appendage. Fruit drupaceous, or dry and of 2-4 nu utlets.— 
About 10 Sener and 300 species, adele distributed. 
Shrubs or woody twiners: fruit drupaceo Tribe I 
BO ue IEEE partly-woody : fruit do separating into 
. TOURNEFORTIEAE 
II. HELIOTROPIEAE. 
I. TOURNEFORTIE 
coo broad: fruit not lobed, hollowed P^ the base: 
hers minutely pointed. 
Plant densely and EE dried) silky-tomentose: leaves very 
numerous ue E wded: corolla-tube about as long as the 
calyx or sho 1. MALLOTONIA. 
Plant Birsncedn conspicuously pubescent: leaves relatively 2. TOURNEFORTIA. 
few and distant: corolla-tube much exceeding the calyx. 
Corolla-lobes narrow, often subulate: fruit lobed, usually 4-lobed, 
not hollowed at the base: anthers acuminate. 3. MYRIOPUS. 
II. HELIOTROPIEAE 
Fruit of 4 more or less readily separating nutlets. 
Fruits 4-lobed, separating into 4 one-seeded nutlets. 
owers in scorpioid spikes or racemes: calyx-lobes equal 
or nearly so. 4. HELIOTROPIUM. 
Flowers axillary to narrow bracts: calyx-lobes very un- 
e b. LiTHOCOCCA. 
Fruits 5. lobed, separ rating into 2 two-seeded nutlets. 
Nutlets conie, ribbed : dS obconie or turbinate. 6. TIARIDIUM. 
tlets subgl lobose e, rugose: style very short or wanting. T7. SCHOBERA 
Nu 
Fruit of 2 completely 2-celled nutlets, or sometimes 1-celled and 
1-seeded. 8. COCHRANEA. 
1. MALLOTONIA Britton. Maritime shrubs with conspicuously pubes- 
cent foliage. Leaves numerous, crowded on the branchlets: blades narrow, 
ba s sessile. Flowers j 
3 p 
short or depressed, hollowed at the base, 
abruptly poin Ed Species, in tropical 
and Mosis region 
. M. gnaphalodes (J acd) Britton. Fleshy 
shrub 2 m. tall or less, the pubescence pale 
or white: leaf- blades ee -spatulate, 4-11 
. long, obtuse: calyx-lobes ovate: corolla 
much exceeding. the calyx; tube eun 
Pid n. to orbieular-ov E ovoid zu id -ovoid, about 
ate, 2-3 mm. lon 
ong. [Tournefortia jue E. : ien e NDER. ) —Coasta stal 
ee a S pen. Fla. and the Keys.—(W. I.) —All y 
