HELIOTROPIACEAE 1133 
5. LITHOCOCCA Small. Annual erect, wiry herbs. Leaves scattered: 
blades very narrow. Flowers scattered, axillary to narrow leaf-like bracts. 
Calyx-lobes very unequal in size and shape 
Stamens adnate to the-lower part of the 
corolla-tube. Style short. Fruit depressed, 
4-lobed.— One species. 
1. m Sager Che, Small. Stem 1-3 
dm. with several or many erect or 
eer bra ns leaf-blades linear o 
calyx-lobes li nea , 2—6 ; 
ut corolla Bs tube about 4 mm. long: 
fruit 3-3.5 wide, pubescent. Helio. 
a. Um "Torr r.]—Dry soil, road- 
sides, and pastures, various provinces, Ala. 
to Tex. Kans., and Ky.—Sum.-fall. 
6. TIARIDIUM Lehm. Annual erect herbs. Leaf-blades broad. Flowers 
in o scorpioid spikes. Sepals slightly united at the base. Corolla blue, 
with the anthers near the middle of the 
rather aa ube. Style obconic or tur- 
inate. Fruit slightly depressed, the nutlets 
paired and mitriform.—One specie 
Annu 
2-10 ¢ m tones calyx-lobes linear to linear- 
g: eorolla 2 
wide. 
[Heliot ropium indicum L. Waste- -places, 
fields, and roadsides, e ee. Fla. 
to Te x., Ill, and va a. Nat. of E. 
d Mez., C. A., 4.)— P un —fall or all 
year S. 
7. SCHOBERA Scop. Annual or perennial, erect herbs. Leaf-blades 
rather broad. Flowers in braetless i nae spikes. Sepals united at the 
Corolla white, with the anthers 
the top of d Very short tube. Style ver 
short or ing. Fruit mueh depressed, 
didym més ps nutlets dus in pairs.— 
FOR 10 species, tropical American. 
= angiosperma (Murr.) Britton. Plant 
ual, 2-12 dm. tall: ae A elliptic to 
rer oos 2-7 ong, 
parviflorum L.]—Hammocks and pinelan 
S pen. Fla. and Florida Keys.—(W. I., 
. A., S. A.) 
