Heliotropium.) BORAGINACEAE. 321 
1, C, subcordata, Lam. — DC. Prod. IX, 477. — A tree, 30—50 ft. high. 
Leaves ovate or subcordate, 5—6‘ X 3!/2—4', on petioles of 1—1'/2’, 
acuminate, entire or wavy, glabrous excepting slight tomentose patches or 
streaks in the axils of the principal veins. Flowers in short terminal 
and lateral corymbiform or Arclange ai cymes with one-sided branches, 
subsessile. Calyx 5—6“, coriaceous, irregularly and obtusely 3—5-toothed. 
Corolla large ee orange-colored, its tube twice the length of 
lo lob 
the calyx, the broadly expanded limb 5—7- the lobes rounded, 
imbricate - contorted, one lobe external. Style as tos as the tube. Drupe 
ovoid, 1—11/2‘, enclosed within the calyx. — Cham. & Schl, in Linnaea, 
IV, 474. — Seem. Fl. Vit. p. 168, tab. 34. — C. Sebestena, Forst. (not Linné), 
and Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. — Mrs. Sinclair, pl ts: 
Along the seashore here and there; formerly much planted by the natives round their 
houses, but now almost exterminated by the ravages of a small moth. The tree, although 
igi ive name i in old «mele: 
soft but durable, is h prized for raced Basse, cups and viel partiobeel wavy 
tibbons of light and Prey brown when poli 
2. HELIOTROPIUM, Linn. 
Calyx 5-cleft, rarely 5-toothed. Corolla-tube cylindrical, the limb 
Spreading, 5-lobed. Anthers included in the tube. Style short, sometimes 
scarcely any, with an annular stigma below the capitate or conical apex. 
Ovary entire, 4- or rarely 5—6-celled. Fruit dry, separable into 4, 5 or 
edo 
convex. — Herbs or undershrubs, usually hairy. Leaves entire, rarely 
toothed. crises usually small in one-sided circinnate spikes or dichoto- 
mous ed 
, chiefly tropical and subtropical, extending over both Worlds. 
ra A dalitveiog H. Perevlandn and the nearly allied Touwrnefortia heliotropioides, Hk., aia 
- argentea, L. 
rae Se pis sb icum. 
Leaves eee spikes songs 
rae 2. i. malum 
Leaves silky-white; spikes 
1. H. Ghdidesiatinis: L. — DC. Prod. IX, 538. — Herbaceous or 
suffruticose, prostrate, 1—2 ft. long, glabrous. Leaves fleshy, glaucous, 
Spathulate or linear-lanceolate, 1—2‘ xX 2—4“, somewhat obtuse, entire, 
gradually contracting into a short petiole, with veins evanescent. Sp ikes 
terminal and lateral, simple or bifid, 2—4‘ long, bractless. Calyx parted 
to the base into linear obes, 1“. Corolla 2’, white, its short lobes plaited 
and imbricate in the bud. Anthers subsessile near the base of the tube, 
linearlanceolate, inflected in the bud. Style very short, depressed at 
the = apex, with an = — ring. Fruit — into 
illebrand, Flora of the Haw: 
