210 LxxxviT. bouaginace.'e; 



or less vovolute margins, densely clothed with appressed hairs ; petioles 

 very short. Tlowers distant, in terminal or extra-axillary slender bracteate 

 spikes 1-3 in. long, often paniculately arranged ; bracts |-|- in. long, 

 stalked or not, lanceolate, hairy, scattered along the rhachis. Calyx 

 hairy, 5-partite ; tube scarcely -^ in. long; segments -^^ in. long, linear- 

 lanceolate, ciliate. Corolla j\ in. long, hairy outside ; tube broad, 

 cylindric, with hairs in the throat ; lol)es J- in. long, ovate, subacute. 

 Stamens inserted above the middle of the corolla-tube ; lilaraents filiform, 

 short ; anthers broadly ovate, acuminate. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style 

 3L in. long; stigma about 5 the length of the style, subcapitate. Fruit 

 4-lobed, about -^^^ in. across, projecting above the persistent spreading 

 calyx-segments, hispid with appressed hairs. I'l. B. I. v. 4, p. 152 ; 

 Eoiss. Fl. Orient, v. 4, p. 144, 



In the Bombay Presidency confined to Siud. Sind : Dalzcll, \7 \, Bkola Piirmi:], 

 Woodroxv ; Tata district, Bhola Puran ! ; Jemadar ka Landa near Karachi, Stuc/cs, 492 ! 

 — DiSTuiu. India (Panjab); A'ghaoistan, Beliichistan, Nubia, Socoti-a. 



6. Heliotropium Eichwaldi, Steud. ex DC. Prodr. v. 9 (1845) 

 p. 535. Herbaceous, erect, branched from a woody base ; stems and 

 branches clothed with soft liairs usually arising from glistening bulbous 

 hases. Leaves 1-1| by g-l in., elliptic-oblong or obovate, usually 

 obtuse, hairy on both sides with hairs usually arising from small glis- 

 tening bulbous bases, base usually tapering; nerves more or less con- 

 spicuous beneath ; petioles of the lower leaves reaching 1 in. long or 

 more, those of the upper leaves much shorter. Flowers usually 2-ranked, 

 in dense geminate or terijate ebracteate spikes which are short and helicoid 

 at the npex when young, reaching about 2 in. long when older. Calyx 

 densely hairy on both sides, divided almost to the base ; segments 

 _ijj._i. in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla ■^— 1- in. long ; tube 

 pubescent outside, glabrous inside ; lobes J^ in. long, orbicular-oblong, 

 with undulate margins and often with intermediate teeth between the 

 lobes. Stamens inserted below the middle of the corolla-tube; anthers 

 J^ in. long, linear-oblong, rounded at the tip. Style scarcely any ; 

 stigma ~ in. long, the conical a])pendage broad at the base, acute and 

 bitid at" the apex, the stiguiatic ring not conspicuous. Fruit usually 

 leaving the calyx behind when falling ; nutlets 4, ellipsoid, obtuse at 

 both ends, yV iii- lof'g' minutely verrucose and finely puberulous. Fl. 

 B. I. V. 4, p.' 149 ; AV^att, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. *214. Heliotropium 

 europceum, Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 94 (not of Linn.). //. caJcarewn, 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 12 (1898) p. 17U {not of Stocks). — 

 Flowers : Nov. -Jan. 



In the Bombay Presidency apparently confined to Sind. Sind : Karachi, Stocks, 

 457 ! ; Magar Pir, Stocks I ; Sehwan, Bhola Puran, 6 !, Kanitkar I ; Hyderabad, Cooke ! 

 — DiSTitiB. India (Panjab, Kashmir) ; W. and Central Asia, Australia. 



7. Heliotropium calcareum. Slocks, in KeivJouni. Bot. v. 4 (1852) 

 p. 174. Erect, branched, herbaceous with woody base; stem and 

 branches cloihed with soft ash-colored pubescence. Leaves g-l| by 

 5"! in., elliptic or obovate, obtuse or subacute, softly hairy ou both 

 sides, base acute ; nerves prominent beneath ; petioles 1-^ in. long, 

 those of the lower lea\es th(> longest. Flo\\crs 1 -ranked, in solitary or 



