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TOURNEFORTIA HELIOTROPIOIDES. HELIO- 

 TROPE-LIKE TOURNEFORTIA. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Boragine^;. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. hypocrateriformis (v. subrotata) 

 fauce nuda. Stamina inclusa. Stigma peltatum subco- 

 nicum. Bacca di- (rarius tetra-) pyrena, ossiculis dis- 

 permis. Br. 



Specific Character. 



1 ournefortia * heliotropioides ; suffruticosa, ramis herba- 

 ceis hirsutis, foliis ellipticjs obtusis utrinque pubescen- 

 tibus margine undulatis, racemis bis terve dichotomis, 

 bacca tetrapyrena. 



Descr. Stem, in our plant, one and a half to two feet 

 high, rounded, branched, hairy, somewhat shrubby, peren- 

 nial, the branches soft and herbaceous. Leaves alternate, 

 petioled, elliptical or ovato-elliptical, obtuse, very veiny 

 and wrinkled, waved at the margins, entire, soft on both 

 sides with short hairs or pubescence. Peduncle terete, 

 hairy, termiual, often with a single leaf, twice or rarely 

 thrice branched, the ultimate divisions revolute, and bear- 

 ds' a one-sided, two-ranked raceme of many flowers, almost 

 exactly resembling those of Heliotropium peruvianum, but 

 rather larger, and instead of yielding the delicious scent 

 °t that universal favorite, imparting a disagreeable odour. 



Calyx 



^ So named in honor of Joseph Pittou de Tournefort, a Physician, 

 raveller, and one of the greatest among the Botanists of France. 



