ffeliotropium.] lxxxix. boragine.e (baker and wright). 35 



to both ends, entire, flat, clothed with adpressed bristly hairs. Spikes 

 lax, 5-8- flowered ; bracts foliaceous, larger than the calyx. Corolla 

 longer than the calyx, thinly strigillose ; throat naked. Style very 

 short ; stigma with a dilated base and acuminate apex. Nuts 4, slightly 

 hairy, acuminate. 



West Tropical Africa. Quoja, Bade. 



8. H. europaeum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 130. Annual. Stems erect, 

 much branched, clothed with short whitish hairs. Leaves thin, flat, 

 oblong or ovate, obtuse, petioled, densely shortly hairy on both sides. 

 Spikes ebracteate, at first short, dense, finally laxer and about 2 in. long. 

 Calyx 1 lin. long, very hairy ; tube very short ; lobes lanceolate. Corolla- 

 tube hairy, not longer than the calyx; lobes small, orbicular. Style 

 short, glabrous ; stigma with a produced conical apex. Nuts rugose, 

 pubescent. — Plenck, Ic. t. 74 (stigma wrongly drawn) ; DC. Prodr. ix. 

 534 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 116. 



Wile Land. Abyssinia : near Jaja, Schimper, ex Schweinf urth. 

 Also in North Africa, South Europe, and the Orient. 



9. H. pterocarp'um, Hochst. <£• Steud. ex DC. Prodr. ix. 552. 

 Annual. Stems short, spreading, slender, densely clothed with whitish 

 bristly hairs. Leaves small, oblong, sessile or shortly petioled, thick, 

 crisped on the margin, densely hispid on both sides. Spikes short, 

 ebracteate, very dense, much curved. Calyx densely hispid, 2 lin. long; 

 tube short ; lobes oblong, free nearly to the base, or more or less united, 

 3 lin. long. Corolla-tube narrowly campanulate ; lobes small, orbicular. 

 Stamens inserted just below the middle of the corolla-tube; anthers 

 oblong. Stigma conical, as long as the glabrous style, together 1 lin. 

 long. Nuts glabrous, cohering in pairs, margined with a broad horny 

 wing, with a rounded sinus at the apex. — Yatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 

 1875, 168. Heliophytum pterocarpum, DC. Prodr. ix. 552. 



Nile Land. Eritrea : near Saati, Schiveinfurth Sf Riva, 365 ! near Massowa, 

 Hildebrandt, 721 ; and British Somaliland near Lasgori, Hildebrandt, 846 (ex Vatke). 

 Hamfila Bay, Terracciano. 



Also in Arabia and Socotra. 



Resembles H. undidatum, Vahl, in an early stage, but the fruit is totally 

 different. 



10. H. curassavicum, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1, 130. Annual. Stems 

 slender, glabrous, prostrate. Leaves linear-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, 

 rather fleshy, narrowed to a short petiole, not at all crisped, the lower 

 1—1^ in. long. Spikes usually in pairs, moderately dense, ebracteate, 

 finally 2-3 in. long. Calyx glabrous, 1 lin. long; tube none : segments 

 ovate. Corolla-tube not longer than the calyx ; lobes oblong. Style very 

 short ; stigma large, umbrella-shaped, apex not produced. Fruit 

 globose, not longer than the calyx ; nuts 4, glabrous. — DC. Prodr. ix. 538 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 2669 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 718;. C. H. Wright 

 in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 7.. 



