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geminate ebracteate spikes, scorpioid when young, elongate reaching 

 6-8 in. long (Stocks) when older. Calyx densely hairy on both sides 

 with silvery hairs, divided almost to the base ; segments jL in. long, 

 linear-lanceolate, subacute, densely ciliate with very long white silky 

 hairs. Corolla i in. long; tube g in. long, cylindric, pubescent outside; 

 lobes orbicular, with crenulate margins and without intermediate teeth 

 between the lobes. Stamens inserted at the middle or very little below 

 the middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers yV in. long, lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, the tips reaching to the level of the top of the corolla-tube. Style 

 very short, about -g\ in. long ; stigma -vV-tV ^"- ^^"g' broadly conical at 

 the base, tapering towards the tip, pubescent and bifid at the apex, the 

 stigmatic ring not sharply defined. Fruit usually deciduous with the 

 calyx ; nutlets 4, ovate in longitudinal section, subacute, -^ in. long, 

 closely covered with silvery hairs, not verrucose, slightly margined. 

 EL B*. I. V. 4, p. 150 ; Boiss. Fi. Orient, v. 4, p. 128. Ileliotroinmi 

 cinerascens, Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 94 {not of Steud.). 



Hills of Sind, SiocAs, ex Ivew Journ. Bot. 1. e. 



I have not seen any specimens from Sind. Those in Herb. Kew. are from Beluchistan. 

 — DisTRiB. Beluchistan. 



8. Heliotropium ovalifolium, Forsl-. FJ. ^(jypt.-Arah. (1775) 

 p. 38. Herbaceous, 6-15 in. high, erect or decumbent, sometimes with 

 diffusely spreading more or less prostrate branches ; stem and branches 

 densely clothed with long silky appressed white hairs. Leaves J-| by 

 -^-g in., elliptic or obovate, mucronate, closely hairy with appressed long 

 silky hairs, base tapering ; petioles of the lower leaves |-| in. long, 

 those of the upper leaves usually shorter. Plowers white, 2-ranked, 

 approximate, in slender ebracteate, hairy, usually once-forked spikes 

 2-4 in. long. Calyx J^ in. long, divided almost to the base, hairy on 

 both sides with soft appressed hairs ; segments bristle-pointed, thick, 

 unequal, one of them about twice as broad as any of the other 4, the 

 larger segment ^^ Ju. wide, ovate, acute, the smaller segments linear- 

 oblong, subacute^ all densely ciliate. Corolla | in. long ; tube cylindric, 

 scarcely swollen over the stamens, hairy outside and with hairs in the 

 throat inside ; lobes J^ in. long, ovate-oblong, acute, without inter- 

 mediate teeth. Stamens inserted below the middle of the corolla-tube ; 

 anthers J^ in. long, lanceolate, acute, the connective produced. Ovary 

 glabrous ; style almost ; stigma -^ in. long, conical, slightly penicillate 

 at the very apex ; stigmatic ring inconspicuous. Nutlets -^^ in. long, 

 ovate in longitudinal section, subacute, densely hairy with silky white 

 hairs on the convex back, cuneate on the face, 1-seeded, the nutlets 

 when falling leaA'iug the calvx behind on the rhachis. PI. B. I, v. 4, 

 p. 150; Aitch. Pb. & Sind'Pl. p. 94; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (1898) p. 170. Heliotropium coromandeliamun, Ketz. Obs. fasc. 2 

 (1781) p. 9 ; Grab. Cat. p. 135 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 171 ; Wight, Icon, 

 t. 1388. — Flowers : Jan.-Feb. The calyx-lobes, which are persistent on 

 the rhachis, are erroneously described as bracts in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. 1. c. 



Stocks (without locality) in Herb. Wight. 548! Deccan : Poona. Ranade], 

 Woodrow ! ; Bijapur, Woodrow ! ; Bhimashankar, Gibson ex Graham. S. M. Country : 

 Belgaiim, i?i7c7He, 1901 ! Kanara: i«w! -Distrib. India (Bengal, W. Peninsula); 

 Troiiical Africa, Australia. 



