HELIOTROPIUM.] 30RAGINACE&. 91 



2, H, supinum, Linn. Sp. PL ISO; Poyle III. 806; F.B.I.iv, 149; 

 Prain Beng. PL 7 15 ; Coolie Fl Bomb, ii, 209. 



A prostrate villous herb. Stems spreading, densely clothed with soft 

 white hairs. Leaves pelioled, -1 in. long, elliptic or ovate, obtuse 

 plicate, entire or mre or less crenate, villous on both sides. Flowers 

 subsessile, in short simple or forked villons spikes. Calyx % in. long, 

 hairy on both sides, lobes short but easily separable downwards. 

 Corolla - in. kng ; lobes very small, rounded. Anthers lanceolate, 

 acute. Style a little longer than the stigma ; stigma conical or subcy- 

 lindric, stigmatic ring conspicuous. Outlets l-4 : enveloped by the 

 calyx, ovate in horizontal section, dark-brown, rounded and somewhat 

 tuberculate on the back, and usually more or less margined when the 

 nutlets are fewer than four. 



Abundant over the greater portion of the area, especially as a weed of 

 cultivation. In Bundelkhand and C. India it is very common on the 

 black soil tracts. DISTBIB. Throughout the h(tter parts of India 

 and in Ceylon, extending to S. Europe, N. and S. Africa and the Canary 

 Islands. 



3. H. snbulatnm, Eochfi. ex Martelli Fl Bogos. 95. H. zeylanicum. 

 F. B. I. iv, 148 (not O f Lamk.) ; Wight Ic. t. 892 ; Ccobe Fl. Bomb- ii, 207' 

 Tournefortia subulata, H celt ft. in LC. Prod, iv, 528. T. Eoyleana. DC. 

 Prod.ia:, 527. T. Edgeworthii, LC. 1. c. 529. T. zeylanica, Wight HI. t, 

 170. Messerschmidia hispida, Berth, in Royle III. 806. 



An erect annual, 1-3 ft. high, scabrous and hispid with stiff bulbous-based 

 hairs. Leaves} -2 in long, sessile or nearly so, narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute, subentire, tapering towards the base, nerves indistinct above. 

 Flowers sessile, in elongated, simple or blanching ebracteate spikes, 

 unilateral or sometimes 2-ranked, especially towards the apex of the 

 Bpike. Calyx T ^ in. long, divided to the base, hairy on both sides; 

 segments ovate, acute, ciliate. Ccrolla-tube % in. long, wider upwards, 

 eetose outside ; lobes caudate-acuminate, spreading. Stamens attached 

 to the swollen portion of the corolla-tube ; anthers sessile, bifid at the 

 apex. Style glabrous, T ^ i n . long, the stigmatic ring supporting a long 

 cone which is penicillate with white shining hairs. Outlets 4, -fa in. 

 long, rounded and rugose or tuberculate on the back. 



Confined to the drier western portion of the area in the neighbourhood of 

 Delhi (Eoyle, Vicary, T. Thomson) and of Agra (Munro). Flowers 

 October-January. DISTKIB. Punjab Plain, in the districts of 

 Ludhiana, Lahore. Ferozepur, Multan, and on the Salt Eange ; also in 

 Sind, Gujarat and from the Konkan southwards to Coimbatore in S. 

 India, extending to Trop Africa. I fully agree with Trimen (Fl. Ceyl. 

 part iii, p 199) in recommending the adoption cf another name for this 

 species, for the very good reason that Lamarck based the description of 

 his H. zeylanicum on Burmann's H. curassivicum var. zeylanicum 

 (Fl. Ind. 41, 1. 16, fig. 2), and that Burmann's figure represents, without 

 doubt, H. paniculatum, E, Br., a species which is known to occur in 



