212 J.XXXVII. BORAOlITACEyT:. 



!). Heliotropium tuberculosum, JJoiss. Fl. Orient, v. 4 (1879) 

 p. 147. Ercft, rif,Mcl, (i-2U in. Iiigli ffoin a woody base, turning black 

 in drying, very harsh and scabrid witli stiff white hairs springing from 

 Avhite tubercular bases ; branches leafy, erect. Leaves ^-2 by p'^--^ in,, 

 siibsessil(>, lanceolate, acute, densely clothed with stiff hairs from white 

 bulbous bases, margins more or less crenulate, often revolute, base 

 tapering. Flowers usually 2-ranked, in solidary conjugate or sometime.s 

 ])aniculately arranged dense short s])ikes. Calyx rather more than g in. 

 long ; segments jij in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, 

 densely hairy outside with long stiff hairs, slightly hairy inside and with 

 more or less membranous margins. Corolla tubular, -J- in. long, densely 

 hairy outside ; tube scarcely swollen at the middle; limb crisped and 

 plicate, truncate, scarcely distinctly lobed. Stamens inserted about the 

 middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers -^-^ in. long, subsessile, narrowly 

 linear-lanceolate. Style -^-^ in. long ; stigma Jjj- in. long, the apex 

 conical, slightly pubescent, shortly bifid, the stigmatic ring conspicuous. 

 Fruit about -J,y in. long and as broad as long, glabrous or softly hairy ; 

 nutlets connate by pairs (sometimes more or less easily separable into 4). 

 Heliotropium undulaium, Woodr. in Journ. Bomb, Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 170 (not of Vahl). //. undxdatimi var. tuberctdosum, Boiss. Diagn. 

 V. 1, fasc. 11 (1849) p. 89.— Flowers : Dec. 



In tlic Bombay Prc.>idency confined to Sind. Sind : Sfoc/iS I ; Hyderabad, Cooke \ ; 

 Magar rir, iTajny/irt/' ! ; Karachi, Cookc\ — Distuib. Persia. 



10. Heliotropium paniculatum, 11. Br. Prodr. (1810) p. 494 

 {not of l^oxb.). Herbaceous, 1-2 ft. high, with numerous twiggy as- 

 cending branches ; stem and branches clothed with appressed hairs 

 (especially so in the arid climate of Sind), or sometimes quite glabrous. 

 Leaves ^-1 by -^-^ in., subsessile or very shortly petiolate, linear, 

 acute, clothed with appressed hairs on both sides or sometimes glabrous 

 above, the margins recurved. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in slender 

 simple or forked racemes 2-G in. long, usually with linear-lanceolate 

 hairy sessile bracts jj in. long. Calyx appressedly hairy outside, divided 

 almost to the base; segments -^j^ in. long, unequal. Corolla ^ in. long, 

 hairy outside ; tube slightly swollen and with a ring of hairs in the 

 throat ; lobes about Jjj- in. long, ovate-deltoid, with plicate sinusea 

 between. (Stamens inserted rather low down in the corolla-tube ; 

 iilaments filiform, short ; anthers t^^ in. long, broadly ovate, acute, at first 

 connate by the produced connectives, afterwards separating, each anther 

 carrying away a portion of the swollen connective so as to form a small 

 disc on the tip of the anther. Style about J,-,- in. long ; stigma a little 

 longer than the style, conical at the apex, the stigmatic ring conspicuous. 

 Fruit globose, shorter than the spreading calyx-segments which are 

 persistent on the rhachis after the fruit falls ; nutlets 4, hairy on the 

 convex back, acute at the apex, cuneate on the face, j'^ in. long. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 4, p. 151 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v, 3, p. 200 ; AVoodr, in Journ. Bomb Xat. 

 V. 12 (1898) p. 17(*. JleJiotropinm UnifoHuw, Lehm. Aperifol. p. 35; 

 Wight, Icon. t. !:'.!» 1. 



Not very common in the Pombny Presidency, wliero it chiefly occurs in Sind. 

 S. M. Country : Badanii, 7)7(/'v/ 1 SiNn : Ji/io/n I'lirnii]; Jfaj^ar Pir near Karachi, 

 KanitAnrl—DiynuB. India (W. Penintuhi, I'egn); Ceyluu, Siam, Australia. 



