HELioTBonrM.] BORAGINACE&. 91 



2. H. supinum, l\ 'w. Fj>. F/. 130; Foyfo J//. o06; F, F. I. tr, ;4fl; 

 Fraui Ban?. / /. 7 15 ; Cooke Fl Bomb, ii, 209. 



A prostrate villous herb. Sten.s spreading, densely clothed -with soft 

 white hairp. I care* petioled, }-l in. kng, elliptic <r (v;ite, obtuse 

 plicate, entire or m<re or less crenate, villotis on both fides. Flowert 

 subpepsile. in short pimple or forked villous spikes. Calyx $ in. long, 

 hairy on both sides, lobes short but easily separable downwards. 

 Corolla £-j| in. b ng ; lobes very small, rounded. Anthers lanceolate, 

 acnte. Sti;le a little longer than the etigma ; stigma conical or subey- 

 lindric, stigmatic ring conspicuous. Outlets 1-4. enveloped by the 

 calyx, ovate in horizontal section, dark brown, rounded and somewhat 

 tuberculate on the back, and usually more or less margined when the 

 nutlets are fewer than four. 



Abundant ever the greater portion of the area, especially as a weed of 

 cultivation. In Bundelkhand and C. India it is very cemmon on the 

 black soil tracts. Disteib. Throughout the h< ttei parts of India 

 and in Ceylon, extending to S. Europe, N. and S. Africa and the Canary 

 Islands. 



3. H. subulatum, Eochst. ex Martelli Fl. Bogos. 95. H. zeylanicum. 

 F. B. I. iv, 148 {not of Lamk.) ; Wight Ie. t. 892; Cooke Fl. Bomb' ii, 207' 

 Tournefortia subulata, Hrchst. in LC. Fred, isc, 528. T. Ecyleana DC. 

 Prod, ix, 527. T. Edgeworthii, LC. I. c. 529. T. zeylanica, Wight III. t, 

 170. Messerschmidia hispida, Benth. in Royle III. 306. 



An erect annual, 1-3 ft. high, scabrous and hispid with stiff bulbous-based 

 hairs. Leaves 1-2 in. long, sessile or nearly so, narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute, subentire, tapering towards the base, nerves indistinct above. 

 Flowers sessile, in elongated, simple or blanching ebracteate spikes, 

 unilateral or sometimes 2-ranked, especially towards the apex of the 

 spike. Calyx T \j in. long, divided to the base, hairy on both sides; 

 segments ovate, acute, ciliate. Corolla- tube g in. long, wider upwards, 

 setose outside ; lobes caudate-acuminate, spreading, stamens attached 

 to the swollen portion of the corolla-tube ; anthers sessile, bifid at the 

 apex. Btyle glabroup, T V, in. long, the stigmatic ring supporting a long 

 cone which is penicillate with white shining hairs, hutlets 4, i\ in. 

 long, rounded and rugose or tuberculate on the back. 



Confined to the drier western portion of the area in the neighbourhood of 

 Delhi (Boyle, Vicary, T. Thomson) and of Agra (Munro). Flowers 

 OctcLer-January. Dibteib. Punjab Plain, in the districts of 

 Fudhiana, Lahcre. 1 crozepur, Multan, and on the Salt Eange ; also in 

 Sind, Gujarat and frcm the Konkan wrothwarda to Coimbatore in S. 

 India, extending to Trip Africa— I fnlly agree with Trim en (11. Ceyl. 

 part iii, p li'9j in r< < i n mending the adoption < f another name fox this 

 species, for the very good reacon that 1 anuVCB lased the description of 

 his //. teylanicvm on Purmann's H. eurappivicum var. /cvlanicum 

 (FL Ind. 41, t. 1G, fig. 2), and that Bnrmann's figure representa, without 

 doubt, H. paniculatnm, E. Pr., a species which is known to occur in 



