784 Borraginaceae. 
opposite or alternate, oval or oblong, obtuse, cuneate at the base, 
more or less crenate, densely hairy on both surfaces, up to 28 by 
12 mm, shortly petioled. Spikes simple or once forked, dense, 
ebracteate. Calyx 2"), mm long, hairy outside; lobes 7/, as long 
as the tube, obtuse. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx; lobes exserted, 
very short, rounded. Stamens inserted just below the middle of 
the corolla-tube. Ovary glabrous; style as long as the ovary. 
Mature nutlets 1—2 to each flower, 5 mm long, enclosed in the 
persistent calyx, plano-convex, dark brown, with a lighter brown 
border, obscurely tubercled. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Abusir; Mariut; Alexandria-West and -East; Mandara; 
Abukir. — M. p. Damietta; Rosetta. — N.d. N.f. N. v. A common 
plant in deep sandy places, rare in fields as a weed. — O. Great Oasis. 
Local name: ghobeyra (Roth). 
Throughout North-Tropical and South-Africa, South and South-Kast 
Europe, the Canary Island, Palestine to India. 
1092. (3.) Heliotropium pallens Delile Cent. Plant. Afric. 
Caill. (1826), p.69 tab. 3 fig.4. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 132. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Il]. Flor. d’Eg., p. 109 no. 718. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. @Eg., p. 260. — DC. Prodrom. IX, p.534. — Helio- 
tropium aegyptiacum Lehm. in Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamburg. (1821), 
p. 8. — An erect, much branched annual herb. Stems softly tomen- 
tose. Leaves ovate, acute, rounded or shortly cuneate at the base, 
up to 5 cm long and 3 em broad, densely pubescent on both sur- 
faces, hairs on the underside of the nerves longer than elsewhere; 
petiole up to 18 mm long, pilose. Cymes spicate, sometimes forked, 
arranged in a terminal, sometimes leafy panicle; flowers crowded. 
Calyx 2*/, mm long, densely hirsute, divided almost to the base; 
lobes 5, linear. Corolla white, 6 mm long, 5 mm in diam.; tube 
contracted just above the base, pubescent outside; lobes rounded, 
obtuse, sometimes slightly undulated. Stamens inserted about half- 
way up the corolla-tube; anthers subsessile, lanceolate, 2,5 mm long. 
Ovary ovoid or conical; style abouts 1 mm long, retrorsely pilose; 
stigma conical from a flat base, nearly as long as the style, shortly 
bifid. Nutlets finely reticulate. — Flow. January to April. 
N. v. mer. Hsne. — D. a. mer. Near Shuwvanna (Floyer). 
Also known from Tropical Africa and Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
1093. (4.) Heliotropium ovalifolium Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab. 
(1775), p. 38. — Heliotropium Brocchianum Vis. Plant. Aegypt. and 
Nub., p. 8 tab. 2 fig. 1. — Heliotropium Kunzei Lehm. Icon. and 
Descript. Stirp., p.19 tab. 29.. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 130. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 109 no. 716. — Sickenberg. 
