206 LXXXVII. liOItAGIX.VCE,^. 



lanceolate, acute. Calyx 1 in. long, more or less hairy, some\\hat fleshy, 

 divided almost to the base ; segments 5, imbricate, the 3 outer slightly 

 larger than the 2 inner, all ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. Corolla 

 nearly 3 in. long; lobes twice as long as the tube, oblong, rounded at 

 the apex, spreading. Stamens esserted beyond the corolla-tube ; fila- 

 ments ^ in. long. Ovary ovoid; style -g^ in. long; stigma capitate or 

 minutely 2-lobed. Fruit i in. in diam., nearly dry, subglobose, shorter 

 than the persistent calyx, tipped with the remains of the style, orange 

 when ripe. Yl B. I. v. 4, p. 145 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 3, p. 197; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 245 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 169. lihahdia viminea, Dalz. in Hook. Icon. PI. ( 1852) t. 823; Dalz. 

 &, Gibs. p. 170. Ehretia cuneata, "Wight, Icon. 1. 1385. — Flowers : Oct.- 

 Dec. Veen. Machim. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Laivl ; banks of the i-iver Pen, Dahelll ; beds of Konkan rivers 

 pretty common, Balzell^' Gibson. Deccan : Koina valley below Mahableshwar, CooJce\; 

 Kirkee, bed of Miila river near tbe Powder Works, Woodrow ! ; 12 miles W. of Poona, 

 Bhiva ! S. M. Country : Oastleroek, Kanitkar ! Kanara : beds of streams in N. 

 Kanara, ]Voodroio\, Talbot; Kalanaddi, i^^Vf/t/c, 1905 !; Gairsoppa, i'a/^f/^! — Disteib. 

 Throughout India in river beds ; Ceylon, Tropical S.E. Asia, Africa, aud Brazil. 



5. HELIOTROPIUM, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs (rarely shrubs), villous or scahrid, rarely quite 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate (rarely subopposite). Flowers usually small, 

 often unilateral along the branches of forked terminal scorpioid cymes, 

 sometimes all axillary or arranged in simple leafy racemes. Calyx more 

 or less deeplv 5-cleft ; lobes linear or lanceolate. Corolla-tuhe cylindric, 

 usually naked at the throat; lobes 5, imbricate or induplicate, usually 

 spreading in flower. Stamens 5, inserted in the corolla-tube, included ; 

 filaments very short; anthers ovate, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, mucro- 

 nate, or with a small discoid appendage at the apex. Ovary completely 

 or imperfectly 4-celled, 4-ovuiate ; ovule pendidous from the inner 

 angle of the cell near its apex ; style terminal, short or long, usually 

 with a depressed conic or broad stiguiatic ring below the apex. Fruit 

 somewhat fleshy, 2- or 4-sulcate or -lobed, at length dividing into 4 

 distinct or gemiuately cohering nutlets (sometimes 1 or 2 of the nutlets 

 suppressed). Seeds straight or curved ; albumen usually scanty ; coty- 

 ledons plano-convex ; radicle short. — Distrib. Throughout the tropical 

 and temperate zones of both hemispheres ; species about 150. 



Leaves reaching 4 in. long ; fruit niitriforin, 4-beaked 1. H, indicum. 



Leaves 2 in. long at most ; fruit of 2-4 nutlets, not beaked. 

 C'()roUa4ubes patent, caudate-acuminate. 



Stigma simple 2. //. zeylanicum. 



Corolla-lobes not caudate-acuminate. 



Stigma with 2 linear branches exserted from the corolla . 3. H, ophioglossum. 

 Stigma not exserted from the corolla. 



Anthers free, not connate by their connectives. 

 Calyx-lobes short, not ^ the length of the tube. 



A prostrate villous herb 4. //. supinnm. 



Calyx deeply divided. 



Stamens inserted above the middle of tlie corolla- 

 tube ; stigma short, subcapitate .^). ]I. rnrijiorum. 



Stamens inserted at or below the middle of the 

 corolla-tube; stigma elongate, conical above. 

 Leaves elliptic or obovate, the lower with hmg 

 petioles. 



