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1. Heliotropium curassavi- 

 cum L. Sea-side Heliotrope. 

 (Fig. 326.) Annual, fleshy, more 

 or less glaucous, diffuse, tlie 

 branches 4-18' long. Leaves lin- 

 ear, or linear-oblong, entire, in- 

 conspicuously veined, f'-2' long, 

 l^"-3" wide, obtuse, narrowed into 

 petioles, or the upper sessile; 

 scorpioid spikes dense, bractless, 

 mostly in pairs; flowers about 2" 

 broad ; calyx-segments acute ; 

 corolla white with a yellow eye or 

 changing to blue; stigma um- 

 brella-shaped; anthers acuminate; 

 fruit globose. 



Sandy seashores and salt marshes, frequent. Native. Florida and West Indies. 

 The plant probably reached Bermuda by floating. Flowers from spring to autumn. 



Heliotropium pemvianum L., Garden Heliotrope, Cherry Pie, South 

 American, commonly grown in flower-gardens, is a perennial pubescent herb, 

 slightly woody, 2h° high or less, with oblong-lanceolate acute pinnately-veined 

 leaves l'-3' long, the small, vanilla-scented flowers usually blue, numerous in 

 terminal clusters. 



2. MALLOTONIA [Griseb.] Britton. 



Silvery-silky shrubs of the seacoast, with alternate leaves and small white 

 flowers in dense 1-sided clones, the fruits almost capitate. Calyx mostly 5- 

 parted; corolla salverform, the 5-lobed limb shorter than the nearly cylindric 

 tube, the lobes broad, valvate. Stamens short, included. Style simple. Drupe 

 dry and bony, ovoid-conic, hollowed at the base, 2-pyrenous, the dissepiments 

 solid. [Latin, related to Mallota.'] One species, or perhaps 2, of tropical and 

 subtropical distribution, the following very characteristic and conspicuous 

 plant of tropical American seacoasts typical. 



