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Corolla-lobes with intennediate teeth. 



Spikes reaching 2 in. long G. H. Eichwaldi. 



Corolla-lobes without intermediate teeth. 

 Spikes 6-8 in. long ; leaves reaching \\ in. ; 



calyx-segments subequal 7. II- calcareum. 



Sjjikes 2-4 in. long ; leaves not exceeding 



I in. ; calyx-segments vei-y unequal 8. H. ovalifulium. 



Leaves lanceolate, sessile. 



An erect shrub with stiff hairs from bulbous 



bases 9- H- tuherculosum. 



Anthers connate by their produced connectives, after- 

 wards separating and with a small disc at their apex. 

 An erect semi-shrubby herb ; racemes reaching 6 in. 



long 10. //. paniculatum. 



A prostrate or decumbent herb ; spikes reaching 2 in. 

 lonw 11. H. ■marifolmm. 



1. Heliotropium indicum, Umi. 8p. PI. (1753) p. 130. A coarse 

 somewhat succulent annual \-2 ft. high, with stout stem and ascending 

 branches more or less densely hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves 

 alternate or often siibopposite, l|-4 by 1-2 in., ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse or subacute, usually with a few scattered hairs above, minutely 

 pilose beneath, the margins much undulate or subserrate, base rounded 

 or sometimes cordate or narrowed, often unequal-sided and then suddenly 

 contracted and decurrent into the petiole ; nerves and veins conspicuous 

 on the lower side ; petioles |-li in. long, more or less winged. Tlowers 

 pale-violet, numerous, sessile, 2-ranked, in simple or rarely forked 

 usually extra-axillary bristly ebracteate spikes 2-6 in. long. Calyx J^- in. 

 long, bristly with a few long hairs outside ; segments -^^ in. long, liuear- 

 lauceolate, acute, unequal. Corolla 4- in. long ; tube \ in. long, hairy 

 outside, narrowed upwards ; limb infundibuliform ; lobes about -^-^ in. 

 long, orbicular-oblong. Stamens inserted below the middle of the 

 corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; anthers Jg- in. long, ovate, acute. 

 Style -^^ in. long ; stigma Jy- in. long, with an annular frill at the base 

 and with a short obtuse apex. Fruit \ in. long, deeply 2-lobed, each 

 lobe compressed, bluntly 4-ribbed, produced above into a short blunt 

 bidentate beak and containing 2 angular beaked hard 1-seeded pyrenes 

 which have each an empty cavity on the inner side. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 152 ; Trim. FL Cevl. v. 3, p. 200 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (1898) p. 170 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 214. Tiaridium 

 indicum, Lehm. Asperifol. p. 14; Wight, 111. t. 171 ; Grab. Cat. p. 135; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 172.— Flowers : Oct.-Dec. Vern. Bhurundi. 



A common weed, often found on rubbish-heaps and in waste places by roadsides. 

 KoNKAN : Ajeru salt-swamps, Bombay, Woodrow ; Bombay, Bhiva ! ; Banda near 

 Biiw'iintvfari,' Kan i/Ii-ar I S. M. Countky : Eamghtit, 7?//cA/p, 494! ; Dharwar, Cooke'. 

 Kanaka: Kala naddi, Bitehie, 494!— Distrib. Throughout India; Ceylon, Malaya, 

 Tropical Africa, and Amei'ica. 



Tlie plant is used in Bombay as a local application to boils, sores, and the stings of 

 insects and reptiles. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



2. Heliotropium zeylanicum, Lam. Encyc. MetJiod. v. 3 (1789) 

 p. 94 {not of Wall.). An erect annual 1-3 ft. high, scabrous and 

 coarsely hairy with stiff hairs ari.sing from white bulbous bases, the 

 globose bases shewing distinctly in dried specimens. Leaves 1-2 by 

 i-]L in., sessile or nearly so, lanceolate, acute, entire, densely clothed 

 with stiff hairs arising from white bulbous bases, base tapering. Flowers 



