390 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
63? Echiochilon DEsr.! — Sepala 5, valde inæqualia; posticum 
nune 0. Corolla ringens ; Himbi labus 2 ; postico breviter 2-1obo erecto- 
patente; antico autem breviore, magis patente, 3-lobo. Stamina 5, 
inæqualia; antheris obtusis inclusis. Fructus nuculæ #4, ovoideo-acutæ 
læves v. tuberculatæ, areola angusta receptaculo conico usque ad 
medium affixæ. — Fruticulus ramosus villosus ; folis alternis; flori- 
bus ad axillas superiores sessilibus, spicam spuriam foliatam forman- 
tibus. (Africa bor ?) 
IT. HARPAGONELLEX. 
64. Harpagonella À. Gray. — Flores irregulares; receptaculo 
concaviuseulo, demum sub fructu elongato-naviculari. Sepala 5, 
inæqualia, circa fructum in cucullum inæqui-2-labiatum remota, 
basi cornubus dorsalibus uncinatis instructa. Corollæ tubuloso-infun- 
dibularis lobi 5, imbricati; fauce 5-squamata. Stamina 5, inclusa. 
Germinis carpellum 1, anticum, 2-lobatum ; lobis 1-ovulatis; ovulo 
adscendente analropo ; micropyle infera. Stylus gynobasicus simplex. 
Nuculæ 1, , in receptaculi concavitate varie decumbentes calyceque 
plus minus obtectæ. Semen adscendens. — Herba annua pusilla pu- 
bescens; foliis alternis v. inferioribus oppositis; floribus ad axillas 
foliorum v. bractearum pedicellatis; pedicellis brevibus sub fructu 
arcte recurvis. ({ns. Guadelupa, California.) — Vide p. 351. 
IV. HELIOTROPIEÆ, 
69. Heliotropium T, — Flores regulares; calyce 5-lobo v. 5-par- 
tito. Corollæ tubus cylindraceus; fauce nuda ; limbi lobis 5, imbricatis 
v. induplicatis, nune crispis v. apice inflexis. Stamina 5, inclusa, 
tubo affixa; filamentis brevibus; antheris introrsis, 2-locularibus. 
Germen integrum v. 4-lobum, 4-locellatum, rarius (Pentacarya) 
4; FL. ail., 1.168,14 47. — pis Aer È 2, Spec. typ. est E. fruticosum DESF. — Li- 
HT. — bc. Prodr,:X;:271. — , Gen, thospermum divaricatum S1E8., herb. — Alte- 
n. 3758, — B, H., Cen., IN, 852, n. ra — Chi- ram deser, Bexruan (ia Hook. Jeon., t. 1211), 
Robien RAFIN. (ex DC.). scil. E pitié un. 
