94 BORAGINACE&. [Heliotbopium. 



"both sides with long, slender hairs ; segments slightly unequal, lance- 

 olate, ciliate. Corolla -g-in. long; tube eylindric, hairy outside, glabrous 

 within ; lobes minute, ovate, acute, with "broad plicate sinuses and 

 minute teeth between the segments. Ovary ovoid, style very short ; 

 stigma bluntly conical or eylindric at the apex, stigmatic ring con* 

 spicuous. Fruit subglobose, bristly, separating into 4 chestnut-brown 

 nutlets. 



Bundelkhand (Edgeworth) Distbib. Throughout the hotter parts of 

 India and in Ceylon. 



H. peruvianum, Linn., popularly known in England as Cherry pie, is much 

 grown in the gardens of Upper India for its scented flowers. It is a 

 native of S. America. 



6. TRICHODESMA. R. Br. ; PI. Brit. Ind. iv, 153. 



Erect, usually hispid herbs. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, 

 entire. Flowers solitary on axillary pedicels passing into terminal 

 racemes by the gradual reduction of the floral leaves. Calyx deeply 

 5-lobed, enlarged in fruit ; lobes angled winged or auricled at the base- 

 Corolla-tule campanulate-cylindric or 5-gonous, throat without scales 

 or slightly closed by the intrusion of the sinnsrs ; lobes 5, often 

 long-acuminate, overlapping to the left. Stamens 5, on the corolla- 

 tube ; anthers erect, elongate, lanceolate, connivent in a cone ; con- 

 nectives more or less hairy on the back, their tips excurrent and at 

 length twisted. Ovary 4-lobed ; style terminal, filiform, stigma 

 small, ovules subhorizontal. Fruit pyramidal, 6ub-4-ridged ; nutlets 

 4, broad, with smooth, shining backs and scabrous more or less 

 margined inner faces, which are at first closely adnate to the car- 

 pophore, finally separating. — Species about 10, in tropical and 

 subtropical Africa, Asia and Australia. 



Calyx-lobes in fruit cordate or hastate at 

 the base • . . . « • . 1. T. indicum. 



Calyx-lobes in fruit rounded at the base • 2. T. zeylanicum* 



1. T. indicum, B. Br. Prod. 496 ; Royle 111 304 ; F. B. I. iv, 153 ; Watt 

 E. D. ; Collett Fl. Bind. 331 ; Brain Beng. PI. 720 ; Code Fl. Bomb, ii. 214 

 T. amplexicaule, Both ; Clarke in F.B. 1. I. c. T. indicum var. amplexi- 

 caule, Code Fl. Bomb. I.e. T. hirsutum, Edgew. Bl.Banda 51. T. in- 

 • equale, Edgew. I. c. Borrago indica,Xi'nn.; Roscb. Fl. Ind. i, 458. B, spinu- 

 losa, Roxb. I. c. 459. 



An annual herb, rorigh with appressed hairs bulbous-based stiff hairs. 

 Stems erect or diffuse, up to 18 in. long. Leaves mostly sessile, 1-4 in. 

 long, ovate oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, base narrowed. 



