95. BORAGINACEM. [5. Heliotropium. 



2-6" long-. Fruit •VI" long, 2-lobed, each lobe 4-ribbed with 2 

 angular " beaked 1 -seeded pyrenes which have each an empty cavity 

 on the inner side" (Cool-e). 



Common on railwRy embankments, roadsides, etc. ! Probably throughout the 

 province. Fls., Fr. all seasons. 



Spreading 1-2 ft. with usually 2-chotomous branches. Leaves often with cordate 

 base or unequal-sided, margins undulate, sec. n. strong beneath. Petiole "Z-l'S", 

 more or less winged. Calyx 'l", thinly bristly. Corolla "2" long, funnel-shaped. 

 Anthers ovate. Stigma above the thickening shorter than the style, obtuse. 



3. H. ovalifolium, Forslc 



Usually with an erect central stem and spreading lateral ones, 

 6-15" high, with long silky hairs all over but not nearly so densely 

 clothed as in last. Leaves elliptic S-l^" long or somewhat obovate, 

 contracted at base into a slender petiole 'o-'T" long. Flowers funnel- 

 shaped •12", 2-ranked in dense, finally elongate and somewhat lax 

 spicif orm once-forked cymes which appear to be bracteate from one 

 of the sepals being much larger than the others and slightly accres- 

 cent in fruit; forks l'5-3" long. Bractiform sepal elliptic or ovate, 

 '12-"2" long, rest of calyx about "1" long only with narrow -elliptic or 

 linear-oblong lobes. Corolla hairy. Anthers linear with connective 

 produced as an acumen. Style hardly any and stigma above the 

 swelling short conical. Nutlets 4, strigosely hairy, "Oo" long. 



Frequent, but not often collected! Banks of Ganges, Kurzl As it occurs in 

 Darbhanga ! Maldah ! and the Central Provinces on the hills, it is probably common 

 throughout oar area. Many specimens in the Cal. Herb, are marked Bengal with- 

 out further locality. Fl.. Fr. Feb.-May, and Aug. (The onlj- months noted; 

 perhaps all the year.) 



4. H. marifolium, Retz. 



Branches many, decumbent from a Avoody base, appressed-hairy 

 with lanceolate or ovate scabrous leaves "S-l^o" long and very short 

 petioles or subsessile. Flowers small white in conspicviously bracteate 

 2-chotomous rigid spicif orm cymes 1-2" long. Calyx "IS" long, lobes 

 slightly unequal, lanceolate hairy. Corolla '2" long, hairy with 

 ovate lobes and minute teeth between the lobes. Style very short, 

 stigma hardly as long above the prominent thickening, bluntly 

 conical. Nutlets shortly bristly, 4, brown. 



Hazaribagh, Clarke ! Manbhum, Clarke ! Banks of Soane, J.D.H. Behar, 

 Hope ! Fl., Fr! Oct. -Jan. Perennial. 



Forms with narrowly lanceolate leaves are very like H. strigosiim, but the bracts 

 are "l" long. Corolla sometimes "2" diam. Fruit densely strigose in some 

 specimens. 



5. H. strigosum, Willd. 



Small, with often erect central stem 3-8" high and many spreading 

 from the root. Stems and leaves with harsh appressed hairs. L. 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, -l-l" long with recurved margins. 

 Flowers white, •1-17" long, sessile or lower pedicelled, 2-ranked in 

 mostly simple spikes 1-2" long Avith narroAv small bracts. Calyx 

 •06-"08" long, strigose, one lobe broadly lanceolate, others narrow- 

 lanceolate. Corolla strigose, tube about as long as calyx, lobes ovate 

 short, plicate in the sinuses betAveen. Anthers minute ovate but 



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