786 Borraginaceae. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N. f. O. Everywhere between the type. 
Local name: sekran; ‘afeyn. 
Also known from South Europe, Arabia Petraea, Palestine. Syria, 
Mesopotamia and Persia. 
1095. (6.) Heliotropium villosum Willd. Spec. Plant. I (1831), 
p. 741. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 133. — Ie. Desf. Cor., tab. 16. — 
An annual plant, 30—40 em high, or sometimes somewhat more, 
tomentose with dense, short, appressed wool, intermixed with longer, 
spreading hairs. Leaves petioled, ovate, obtuse; corolla glabrous or 
hirsute within, ribs ending in a tooth below the throat; anthers 
adnate below the middle of the tube; stigma nearly sessile, much 
broader than long. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Alexandria; Sidi-Gaber; Ramle, in sandy places. 
Also known from Syria. 
1096. (7.) Heliotropium luteum Poir. in Lam. Encyclop. 
Supplem. III (1789), p. 22. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 141. — Aschers. 
Flor. Rhinocol., p. 801 no. 179. — Aschers.-Schweinf. III. Flor. d’Eg,, 
p.109 no.719. — Heliotropium lineatum Del. Illustr. Flor. dEe., 
p. 37 tab. 17 not of Vahl. — Heliotropium eriocarpum Lehm. Asp., 
p. 55. — Lithospernum digynum Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p. 40. 
Heliotropium callosum Spreng, Nov. Proy., p. 21. — A perennial 
herb, 20—40 cm high, sometimes somewhat more, much branched, 
retrorsely tomentellous, canescent. Leaves 1—15 cm long, oblong 
to ovate, usually wavy-margined, depressed-lineate at the upper surface. 
Racemes 1—4 cm long, dense; corolla-tube silky without, glabrous 
within, one and a half as leng as the calyx, lobes yellowish, inflexed, 
much shorter than the tube; anthers retuse, inserted on throat; stigma 
long-conical, half as long as the style, hirsute at the apex; nutlets 
large, densely silky or glabrescent. — Flow. December to April. 
M. p. Rosetta; Damietta; el-“Arish, — D. 1. D. i. D. a. sept. 
Connon in seep sandy places and on calearious ground. 
Local name: roghl; netesh (Forsk; Delile); forreysh (Delile); 
halame (Ascherson); rehama (Schweinfurth); kirry; karti (Ascherson). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
1097, (8.) Heliotropium arbainense Fresen. in Mus. Sencken- 
berg. I (1834), p. 168. — DC. Prodrom. IX, p. 537. — Boiss. Flor. 
Or. IV, p. 146. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 109 no. 720. 
— Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., p, 260. — Perennial. Stems 
short, ascending, much-branched, densely clothed with short soft 
whitish hairs. Leaves petioled, ovate or oblong, small, densely hairy 
on both sides, rounded or narrowed to the base. Spikes dense, 
