HELIOTBOPIUM.] BORAGlNdCE^l. 93 



6, H. zeylanioum, LamTc. Encycl. Method Hi, 94 (not of Wall, nor of 

 F. B /.); tieyne in Herb. Rottl. H. paniculatum, R. Br. Prod. 494 (not of 

 Rcxb.); Clarke in F. B I. iv, 151 ; Coolie Fl. Bomb. ii. 212. H. linifolinm, 

 Lehm. H. glabellum, R. Br. H. curassavicum var. zeylanicum, Burm. Fl. 

 Ind.41,t.l6,fig.2. Cynoglossum zeylanicum in Herb. Wight. Myosotis 

 fruticosa, Linn. Hant.ii, 201. 



An erect herb, 1-2 ft. high, with numerous rigid ascending branches. Stems 

 and branches more or less strigose or sometimes quite glabrous. Leaves 

 up to 1 in long, sessile or nearly so, linear, acute, clothed on both sides 

 with appressed hairs or the upper surface glabrous, margins recurved, 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled, in slender simple or forked racemes 2-6 in. 

 long; bracts | in. long, linear, hairy. Calyx 5-partite, strigose out- 

 side ; segments ovate, acute. Corolla $ in. long, hairy outside ; lobes 

 ovate-deltoid, the sinuses plicate. Style very short; stigma conical, a 

 little longer than the style, stigmatic ring conspicuous. Fruit sub- 

 globoae, depressed, shorter than the spreading preaistent calyx-seg- 

 ments. "Nutlets 4, j*y in. long, acute at the apex, hairy on the back. 



Confined to the N. W. portion of the area, but not common. DISTBIB. 

 Punjab Plain, in the districts of Hissar (Duthie) and Jhelam (Aitchison), 

 also in Sind, Bombay, S. India and Ceylon, extending to Pegu, Siam 

 and Australia. See remarks under H. subulatum. 



7. H. strigosum, Willd. 8p. PL i, 743; F. B. I. iv, 151; Watt E. D. ; 

 Collett Fl. 8imL 330; Prain Beng. PL 716. !H. brevifolium, Wall. ; 

 Royle 111. 806. H. compactum, Don. Prod, 101. 



A small, much branched, usually procumbent, etrigose perennial Herb, 

 woody at the base. Branches few, slender. Leaves --1 in. long, linear, 

 becoming smaller upwards. Flowers less than ^ in. long ; bracts linear 

 or the lowest leaf-like. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute, enlarging in fruit. 

 Corolla salver-shaped. Stigma narrowly conical. Fruit depressed at 

 the apex, of 4 minute more or less united glabrous or slightly .hairy 

 nutlets. 



Abundant within the area. DISTRIB. W. Himalaya, up to 5,500 ft., and 

 throughout India, extending to Baluchistan, Burma, Malaya, China and 

 Australia. B. brevifolium, Wall., reduced to a variety in F. B. I. 1. c. 

 differs only by its shorter leaves. 

 , H. marifolium, Retz. Obs. ii, 8 ; F. B. I. iv, 152 ; Prain Beng. Pi* 



716; Cooke FL Bomb. ii. 213. H. marifolium var. Wallichii, Clarke in F- 



B. I. L c. H. scabrum, Retz.} F. B. 1. 1. c. Cynoglossuni marifolium, Roxb. 



FL Ind. i } 457. 



A much branched, procumbent, perennial herb. Stems woody at the base 

 spreading along the surface of the ground often to a considerable 

 distance, appressedly hairy. Leaves - in. long or more, ovate lance- 



. 



olate or oblanceolate, acute, densely clothed with appressed hairs, 

 petioles very short. Flowers in axillary and terminal bracteate spikes, 

 >2 in. long; bracts leaf-like, lanceolate. Caly* $ in. Ion?, clothed on 



