C 1699 ] 



Heliotropium corymbosum. Large- 

 flowered Turnsole. 



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Pentandria Monocynia. 



Generic Charatler. 



Cor. hypocrateriformis, 5-fida, interjeais dentibus : faucc 

 nuda. 



Specific CharaEIer. 



HELIOTROPIUM corymbofum ; caule fruticofo, foliis lan- 

 ceolato-ovatis bafi anguftatis, fpicis compofitis dichotomis, 

 tubo corollas calyce bis longiore. 



HELIOTROPIUM corymbofum ; foliis oblongo-lanceoiatis, 

 caule fruticofo fpicis terminalibus aggregato-corymbofis, 

 laciniis calycinis longis fubulatis. Fior. Peruv. 2. p. 2. t. 107. 

 f. a. Perl 0011 Syn. \. p 156. 



HELIOTROPIUM grandijiorum. Donn Fl. Cant. ed. 6. p. 42. 



The Heliotropium corymbofum, as a flowering fhrub, is far 

 mote pleafing to the eye than the common fragrant fort (H. pe- 

 rwvianum, Bot. Mag. No. 141.) but then it is devoid of that 

 delightful perfume, for which the other is fo highly prized, 

 the lcent of this, though fweet, being not very agreeable. 



We have obferved this plant for four or five years pad in 

 fome of our more curious collections, where it has gone by the 

 name of grandijiorum ; but it is undoubtedly the fpecies defcribed 

 by Ruiz and Pavon in the Flora Peruviana. We were for 

 fome time inclined to regard it as a mere accidental variety of 

 H. peruvianum, with which it bears a near affinity ; upon a 

 careful comparifon of the two, however, we were foon con- 

 vinced of their being fpecifically diftinft. The {lowering /pikes 

 of our pFefent plant inftcad of being crowded together, as in 



peruv'ianivn. 



