4. Ehabdia.] 95. BORAGINAGEM. 



pedicels, usually 2-3 at the ends of short lateral branches. Drupe 

 orange- red "IT". 



Rocky river beds. Not very common. Sino-bhum, both in Saranda and Porahat I 

 A.-n^\\\,^Lnce\ Sambalpur ! Fl. Oct.-Jan. Fr. Dec.-Feb. 



Branches often rooting, appressed-hairy. L. Avith 2-4 verj- faint sec. n. Calyx 

 persistent 5-partite, sepals lanceolate, acuminate. pvar3'2-celled (in our specimens;. 



Ropes are made from the tough split stems. 



5. HELIOTROPIUM, L. 



Herbs or shrubs (not in our area). Flowers small, usually white 

 on the long scorpioid branches of 2-chotoinous cymes. Calyx 5-lobed 

 or -partite. Corolla salver-shaped or funnel-shaped, throat not hairy, 

 lobes imbricate or induplicate in bud. Stamens included, anthers 

 ovate or lanceolate. Ovary completely or imperfectly 4-celled. Style 

 terminal, ending in a depressed conical or flat disc or thickening, 

 stigma above the disc 0, or short or elongate, entire or with 2 linear 

 branches. Fruit dry 2-4-lobed or of 4 more or less free nutlets. 

 Seed straight or curved. 



I. Calyx campanulate, broader than the corolla, with broadly 

 oblong or sub-ovate sepals enclosing the single large mar- 

 gined nutlet. (Nutlets 2-i in var. malabarica.) . . .1. siipinum. 

 II. Calj'x narrow with narrow sepals, not concealing the nutlets : — 



A. Leaves large, often 2-4", ovate. Fruit separating into two 



2-seeded pyrenes . . 2. indicum. 



B. Leaves under 1*5". Fruit of 4 nutlets :— 



1. L. elUptic or obovate, silky. Fls. with a large bract-like 



sepal ........... 3. ovalifolium, 



2. L. linear or lanceolate, scabrid :— 



L, lanceolate. Fls. with conspicuous bracts . . .4. marifolium. 

 L. linear or linear-lanceolate. Fls. with narrow bracts . 5. strigosum. 



1. H. supinum, L. 



Prostrate with niimerous stems from the root 6-12" long, densely 

 softly hirsute or silky throughout. Leaves "S-'S" (-IS" Clarlie), 

 elliptic or ovate, obtuse, beautifully silky, with about 4 sec. n. 

 impressed above, prominent beneath, and slender petiole ■15-"4" long. 

 Fls. white starlike, surrovmded by the broad densely hirsute calyx in 

 short softly hirsvite spikes -6-1" long, without bracts. Calyx •12--17" 

 long with oblong or ovate sepals slightly connate half-way iip. Corolla 

 •1" diam., tu.be -07", villous ou.tside, throat campanulate, lobes broadly 

 oblong. Anthers large, lanceolate. Stigma above swelling nearly as 

 long as the style. Nutlet in type ovoid strongly margined and 

 somewhat warted, enclosed in the calyx. 



Patna ! Fl., Fr. Feb.-March, June, Dec. (Perhaps all the year.) 

 Var. malabarica, Clarke. Syn. H. malabarica, Retz. 



Nutlets usually 4 smaller triangular, in horizontal section without margins or 

 sometimes 2 or 3 only and with faint margins. 



2. H. indicum, L. 



A rather coarse herb with ascending hirsute branches and alt. or 

 sometimes subopposite ovate or ovate-oblong leaves usually 2-4" 

 long, rugose above and with a few hairs, pilose beneath. Flowers 

 lilac, 2-ranked in elongate usually simple bristly ebracteate spikes 



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