Heliotr opium. ] c. BORAGINE&. (C. B. Clarke.) 149 



SECT. III. TConimantha, Franch. Stigma with 2 linear branches exsert 

 from the corolla. 



3. ZZ. ophiog-lossum, Stocks; Aitchison Cat. Punjab. 94 ; leaves lanceo- 

 late, spikes elongate many-flowered, corolla-lobes round crenate. Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 145. H. stylosuni, Franch. Sert. Somal. in Mission Revoil. 45, t. 4, 

 not Philippi. 



SCINDE ; Kurrachee, Stocks. -DiSTRiB. Beloochistan, Somali-land. 



Woody, 6-15 in., branched from the base, scabrous-hairy. Leaves 1 by ^ in., tip 

 cuneate, base attenuated or subpetioled, subentire, nerves obscure on the upper 

 surface. Spikes 2-6 in. ; flowers sessile, 1-2-ranked. Sepals in., lanceolate. 

 Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the sepals, cylindric, minutely scabrous without. 

 Anthers linear, occupying the upper half of the corolla-tube. Style very short ; 

 stigma conico-linear, nearly as long as the corolla-tube. Nutlets 4, ~ in., glabrous. 



SECT. IV. Piptoclaina. Calyx-lobes short, subvalvate. Fruit enclosed 

 by the calyx. 



4. H. supinum, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. ix. 533; leaves petiojed elliptic 

 or ovate subobtuse, spikes short woolly, nut solitary (sometimes 2) large rugose 

 margined. Sibth. Fl. Grcec. t. 157 ; Wight Ic. t. 1387 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 171 ; Bunge in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1869, 289 ; Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 

 127. Piptoclaina supina, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 364. Lithospermum heliotro- 

 poides, Forsk. Fl. JEg. Arab. 39. 



PUNJAB and UPPER G-ANGETIC PLAIN ; Royle, Edgeworth, &c. DISTRIB. W. Asia, 

 S. Europe, N. Central Africa. 



Annual, prostrate, 1 ft. diam., much branched, shortly softly villous. Leaves -! 

 in., subentire ; nerves often impressed on the upper surface. Calyx in., ovate, 

 woolly. Corolla-tube | in., ovate ; lobes very small, round. Anthers ovate-oblong, 

 near the top of the tube. Stigma conical, hairy, nearly as long as the style, included. 

 Nutlets by ^ in., margins broad, smooth ; often 2 in the Indian examples. 



VAR. malabarica ; nuts usually 4 smaller in horizontal section triangular without 

 margins. H. malabarica, Beta Obs. iv. 24 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 454 ; Wall. Cat. 7014. 

 Piptoclaina malabarica, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 364. "W. Deccan Peninsula, from 

 Central India (Edgeworth) to Tinnevelly (Wight}, frequent. Cutch & Scinde, 

 Stocks, Stoliczka. Bunge (1. c. 287) excludes from the section Piptoclaina all the 

 species with 4 nutlets, and objects to regarding H. malabaricum as a var. of H. 

 supinum ; but there is every gradation between the two forms of fruit in the Indian 

 collections ; an example, marked as collected at Darjeeling in Herb. Griffith, has 2-3 

 or 3-4 nuts. 



SECT. V. Euheliotropium. Sepals narrow, not enclosing the fruit. 

 Corolla-lobes plicate or crenulate, neither patent cuspidate nor with closely- 

 incurved mucro. Style short ; stigma conic, entire or minutely 2-fid or (in H. 

 rarijlorum and myosotoides) capitate, included in the corolla-tube. Nutlets not 

 spreading, forming an ovoid 4-pointed mitre-like fruit, with a small hole at the 

 apex. 



* Leaves obovate or elliptic, silky scarcely scabrous, subentire ; flowers sessile. 



5. H. Eichwaldi, Steud-, DC. Prodr. ix. 535; leaves obovate lower 

 long-petioled softly closely hairy, spikes dense ebracteate, flowers 2-ranked, 

 calyx deciduous with the fruit, nutlets glabrous minutely verrucose. Bunge in 

 Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1869, 292 ; Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 131. H. ellipticuin, 

 Ledeb.j Eichw. Itin. Casp.-Caucas. 10. t. 4, not of Salt. H. strictum, Ledeb. 

 Fl. Ross. iii. 100. H. macrocarpum, Ouss. PL Inarime, 214, t. 7, fig. 2, and g, 



