( 1837 ) 



Heliotropium indicum. Indian Turnsole, 

 or Heliotrope. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. hypocrateriformis, 5-fida, fauce plicata. Stigma in- 

 crassatum subconicum. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Heliotropium indicum; foliis cordatis acutis scabriusculis, 



spicis solitariis, fructibus bifidis. Flor. Zeyl. 70. Sp. 



PI. 1877. Reich. 1. 380. Willd. 1. 740. Per soon 



Syn. 1. 155. Swartz Obs. 54. Hort. Kern., ed. alt. 1. 



2>. 284. Loureiro Cochinch. 103. Mart. AfiYZ. Diet. 



n.2. 

 Heliotropium foliis ovatis acutis, spicis* solitariis. Hort. 



Clif. 45. 

 Heliotropium americanum cseruleum foliis Hormini. Pluk. 



Aim. 182. t. 245. / 4. Dodart Mem. S3. Robert Ic. 



158. Sabb. Hort. Rom. 2. t. 34. Sloane Jam. \. p.3. 



Moris. Hist. 3. p. 451. Raj. Hist. 3. p. 270. 

 Jacua-Acanga. Pis. Braz. p. 229. 



Descr. Root annual. Stem rounded, erect, from one to 

 two feet high, branched, hispid. Leaves alternate and 

 opposite, spathulate-ovate, acute, rugose, crenate, naked on 

 the upper and clothed with a rather soft pubescence on the 

 under surface. Branches grow from the axils of the leaves. 

 Flowers in long, solitary, terminal, generally simple, fcut 

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