Heliotbopifm.] BORAG1NACEJE. 93 



6. H. zeylanicum, Limfc. Encycl. Method Hi, 94 (not of Wall, nor of 

 F.B /.); aeyne in Herb. Rottl. H. paniculatum, R. Br. Prod. 494 inot of 

 Bcxb.)', Clarke in F. B I. iv, 151 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii. 212. H. linifolium, 

 Lehm. H. glabollum, R. Br. H. curassavicum var. zeylanicum, Burm. Fl. 

 L,d. 41,t. 16, fig.2. Cynoglossum zeylanicum in Herb. Wight. Myosotia 

 fruticosa, Linn, Mant.ii, 201.- 



An erect herb, 1-2 ft. high, with numerous rigid ascending branches. Stem§ 

 and branches more or less strigose or sometimes quite glabrous. Leave* 

 up to 1 in long, sessile or nearly so, linear, acute, clothed on both eidea 

 with appressed hairs or the upper surface glabrous, margins recurved, 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled, in slender simple or forked racemes 2-6 in. 

 long ; bracts | in. long, linear, hairy. Calyx F-partite, strigose out- 

 side; segments ovate, acute. Corolla^ in. long, hairy outside ; lobes 

 r vate-deltoid, the sinuses plicate. Style very short ; stigma conical, a 

 little longer than the style, stigmatic ring conspicuous. Fruit sub- 

 globose, depressed, shorter than the spreading preaistent calyx-seg- 

 ments. Nutlets 4, A in. long, acute at the apex, hairy on the baok. 



Confined to the N. W. portion of the area, but not common. Distbib. 

 Punjab Plain, in the districts of Hissar (Duthie) and Jhelam (Aitchison), 

 also in Sind, Bombay, S. Indi i and Ceylon, extending to Pegu, Siam 

 and Australia. See remarks under H. subulatum. 



7. H. strigosum, Willd. Bp. PL*, 743; F. B. I. iv, 151; Watt E. D.; 

 'ett VI. 8iml. 330; Prain Beng. PI. 716. !H. brevifohum, Wall. ; 

 ile 111. 306. H. compactum, Don. Prod, 101. 



A email, much branched, usually procumbent, strigose perennial herb, 

 woody at the base. Branches few, slender. Leaves 4-1 in. long, linear, 

 becoming smaller upwards. Flowers less than -& in. long ; bracts linear 

 or the lowest leaf -like. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute, enlarging in fruit. 

 Corolla salver-shaped. Stigma narrowly conical. Fruit depressedat 

 the apex, of 4 minute more or less united glabrous or slightly hairy 

 nutlets. 



Abundant within the area. Distrie. W. Himalaya, up to 5,500 ft., and 

 throughout India, extending to Baluchistan, Burma, Malaya, China and 

 Australia. H. brevifolium, Wall., reduced to a variety in F. B. I. 1. c. 

 differs only by its shorter leaves. 

 B H marifolium, Retz. Obs. ii, 8 ; F. B. I. iv, 152; Prain Beng. P*. 



716- Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 213. H. marifolium var. Walhchn Clarke m F- 



B. i. I. c. H. scabrum, Betz.; F. B. 1. 1. c. Cynoglossum marifolium, So *• 



Fl.Ind. i,457. 



A much branched, procumbent, perennial herb. Stems woody at the base, 

 spreading along the surface of the ground often to a considerable 

 distance, appressedly hairy. Leaves K in- W or more, ovate lance- 

 olate or oblanceolate, acute, densely clothed with appressed hairs, 

 petioles very short. Fhwert in axillary and terminal bracteate spikee, 

 1-2 in. long ; bracts leaf-like, lanceolate. Cahjm * in. loo* olothed on 



