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HELIOTROPIUM CURASSAVICUM. GLaUcous 
Turnsote or Hetiotrope. 7 
Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. hypocrateriformis, 5-fida, interjectis dentibus : fauce 
nuda. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
HEiorrorium curassavicum ; foliis lanceolato-linearibus 
glabris aveniis, spicis conjugatis. Sp. Pl. 188. ed. 
Willd. 1.p. 743. Persoon. Syn. 1. p.156.”.16. Hort. 
Kew. ed. alt.1. p. 285. Fl. Perv: 2. p.4.n.10. Roem. 
et Sch. Syst. Veg. 4. p. 32. et 728. ee 
Heliotropium curassavicum ; caule herbaceo ; foliis sub- © 
. Oppositis angusto-lanceolatis obsolete venosis glabris 
glaucis, spicis conjugatis solitariisve. Hornem. Hort. 
Hafn. 1. p. 172. Lehm. Asper. p. 34. n. 13. 
Hetiorrorium curassavicum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis glau- 
cis glabris obsolete venosis oppositis alternisve, spicis 
conjugatis compositisve. Walld. Enum. 175. 
Heriorropium indicum procumbens glaucophyllon, flori- 
bus albis. Pluk. Alm. 182. t. 36. f. 3. 7 
Hexiorrorium americanum procumbens, facie Lini umbili- 
-cati. Herm. Parad. p. 183. cum. tab. Moris. Hist. 
8. p. 452. Sect. 11. t. 31. f. 12. pessima. 
HeEtiorrorium maritimum minus, folio glauco, flore albo. 
Sloane Hist. 1. p. 213. t. 132. f. 3. 
Hexiorrorium curassavicum is a plant of little or no 
beauty, but there not existing any coloured figure of it, 
_ for any good one at all, we have thought it worth while 
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