152 c. BORAGINE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Heliotropium . 



glabrous chestnut-brown below scabrous or minutely hairy near the apex. DC. 

 Prodr. ix. 547; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 397. H. foliatum, Br. I.e. 493; DC. 

 I. c. 548. H. ramosum, Roxb. : Wall. Cat. 7015. H. cyrtostachyum, Mia. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. ii. 924. 



& DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTBIB. Java, Australia. 



Stems 4-8 in., strict or with ascending branches. Leaves f by ^- in., not very 

 acute. Sepals in., lanceolate, smaller than many of the bracts. 



VAE. lax/flora; spikes elongate or (in H. zeylanicum, Wall.) filiform. H. laxi- 

 florum, DC. I c. 548 ; Dale. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 171. H. zeylanicum, Wall. Cat. 2091, 

 not of Lamk. S. Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon, Heyne, Wight. 



13. H. marifolium, Retz. Obs. ii. 8; leaves lanceolate acute scabrous 

 cauline often large, spikes 1-2 in. dichotomous rigid dense curved conspicuously 

 bracteate, fruit 4-lobed chestnut-brown below shortly bristly. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from Chota Nagpore and Rajpootana to Cape Comorin. 



Stems rigid, divaricately ramous, not intricate. Cauline leaves 1% by in., harsh. 

 Flowers and. fruits rather larger than those of H. bracteatum from which it is perhaps 

 not distinct. 



_ VAR. Watlichii stems decumbent intricately ramous, leaves smaller less harsh, 

 spikes elongate, flowers and fruits nearly of H. bracteatum. H. marifolium, Wall. 

 Cat. 2092; DC. Prodr. ix. 547; Wight Ic. t. 1390; Dalz $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 171. 

 Cynoglossum marifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 457. Bothriospermum ? marifolium, A. DC. 

 Prodr. x. 116. Throughout India. Distinguished from H. strigosum by its broader 

 leaves and 4-lobed fruit. Except in its very ramous habit this does not differ from H. 

 bracteatum, var. laxiflora. Anthers ovate with linear twisted tips as in allied species) 

 described by Roxburgh as " scales " between the corolla-lobes which error has misled 

 A. DC. 



14. H. scabrum, Retz. Obs. ii. 8 ; procumbent, densely, leafy, leaves lan- 

 ceolate acute, flowers subcapitate among leaflike bracts, fruit 4-lobed chestnut 

 glabrous or minutely hairy near the apex. Wall. Cat. 7017 ; Wight Ic. t. 1389. 



DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON ; frequent. 



Forming dense tufts with fascicled leaves. Probably not specifically distinct from 

 H. marifolium. 



ft Stigma subcapitate. 



15. H. rariflorum, Stocks in Hook. KewJourn.iv. 174 ; erect, branched, 

 leaves linear, spikes elongate bracteate, fruit 4-lobed bristly. Bom. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 144. Lithospermum leucophlaeum, Schweinf. Herb. Afr. Cent?', n. 696. 



SCINDE ; Kurrachee, ' Stocks. PUNJAB ; Jhelum, Aitchison. DISTRIB. Cabul, 

 Beloochistan, Nubia, Socotra. 



Branches 6-12 in. Leaves 1 by -| in. Spikes 1-3 in.; flowers all sessile; bracts 

 scattered, leaflike. Stigma a very depressed cone. Hairs on the fruit adpressed or- 

 thickly bristly. 



SECT. VI. Heliophytum. Fruit mitriform, subacutely 4-pointed. 



16. H. indicum. Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 454 ; herbaceous, leaves 

 petioled ovate subserrate, spikes elongate dense ebracteate, fruit separating into 

 two 2-seeded 2-pointed pyrenes. Bot. Mag. t. 1837. H. anisophyllum, Beauv. 

 Fl. Ow. et Ben. ii. 62, t. 96. Tiaridiurn indicum, Lehm. Asperifol. 14 ; Wall. Cat. 

 913; Wight III. t. 171; Chamisso in Linnaa, 1829, 452, t. 5, fig. 2 ; Dalz. fy 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 172. T. anisophyllum, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 364. Heliophy- 

 tum indicum, DC. Prodr. ix. 556 ] Fresen. in Mart. Fl. Bras.fasc. 22, 48, t. 10, 

 fig. 4. H. velutinum, DC. I. c. 557. 



Throughout INDIA; very common in the moister parts. DISTRIB. Malaya, E. Asia, 

 Tropical Africa and America. 



