92 BORAGINACE^. [Heliotropium. 



Ceylon. Dr. Cooke (Fl. Bomb, ii, 208, in note), while agreeing with 

 Trimen in his contention, has, however, kept up the original name in 

 order to avoid the inconvenience which often follows the alteration of 

 a long-established name. At the same time he has suggested what 

 should be the correct name in the event of a change in nomenclature 

 being found necessary. Believing, however, such a step is more likely 

 in the present instance to prevent than create confusion in the future, 

 I have decided to adopt Dr. Cooke's proposed name \H. subulatum. 

 Hochst ) for the H. zeylanicum of the Fl. Brit. Ind., and to substitute 

 for H. paniculatum Lamarck's older name, H. zeylanicum. 



4 H. Eichwaldi, Steud. ex DC Prod, ix, 535 ; F. B. I. iv, 149 ; Watt 

 E. D', Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 210. 



An erect herb, branching from a woody base. Stems and branches 

 clothed with soft usually bulbous-based hairs. _ Leaves 1 — If in. long, 

 elliptic -oblong or obovate, obtuse, usually tapering to the base, clothed 

 on both sides with bulbous-based hairs, nerves more or less prominent 

 beneath; petioles of lower leaves much longer than those of the upper. 

 Spikes short ebracteate, in pairs or ternate, helicoid at the apex when 

 young. Calyw 5-partite ; segments ovate-lanceolate, acute, densely 

 hairy on both sides. Corolla-tube ■§• in. long, narrowly cylindric, hairy 

 outside ; lobes small, rounded, with a crenulate margin. Style very 

 short, stigma with a broad-based conical appendage bifid at the apex, 

 stigmatic ring not conspicuous. Nutlets \, elipsoid, \$ in. long, obtuse 

 at both ends, minutely verrucose and puberulous. Merwdra (Duthie)* 

 Flowers November- January. Distbjb. Sind, Punjab, _ Kashmir and 

 W. Tibet extending to Australia. The leaves are applied externally 

 as a remedy f <<r stings, and internally as an emetic. 



5 H. ovallfolium, Forsk. Fl. Mgypt-Arub. 38 j F.B.I, iv, 150; Train 

 Beng. PL 716 ; Cooke. Fl. Bomb, ii, 211. H. obovatum, Don. Prod. 101. 

 H. coromandelianum, Koen. ex. Retz., Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 454.) 



An ereot decumbent or almost prostrate herb, densely clothed with 

 long, white, appressed, silky hairs. Stems often woody below. 

 Leaves £-f in. long, elliptic or obovate, mucronate or not, 

 narrowed towards the base, covered with long, appressed silky hairs ; 

 petioles of lower leaves about £ in. long ; those of the upper shorter. 

 Flowers white, l-or-2 ranked, in compact hairy usually forked spikes 

 2-4 in. long; bracts persistent, ^5-5 in. long, ovate, acute. Calyx deeply 

 5-partite, *b in. long, hairy on both sides ; segments very unequal, 

 ovate or linear-oblong, bristle pointed and densely ciliate, not deciduous 

 with the fruit- Corolla % in. long, tube cylindric, hairy outside and in 

 the throat ; lobes small, ovate-oblong, acute, without intermediate teeth. 

 Ovary _ glabrous, style very short; stigma conical, minutely hairy at 

 the tip, stigmatic ring not conspicuous. Nutlets four, -fa in. long, 

 subacute, densely silky on the back, 1-seeded. 



Upper Gangetic Plain (Eoyle). Distrib. Bengal and Sind to Bombay 

 and S. India ; also in Upper Burma extending to Australia and Trop. 

 Africa. 



