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branous ; ovate, the apex acute or shortly acuminate, the base rounded, 

 slightly oblique ; both surfaces when dry brown, the upper quite 

 glabrous, the lower paler, reticulate, sometimes with a few small hairs 

 on the nerves ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending, depressed 

 like the midrib on the upper surface, prominent on the lower ; length. 

 2 to 3"0 in., breadth -75 to 1-75 in. ; petioles -3 to "4 in. Cymes ter- 

 minal and lateral (extra-axillary), on long peduncles, dichotomously 

 branched, sub-glabrous. Floicers "3 to "4 in. long, sessile, forming- 

 crowded one-sided pseudo-spikes (scorpioid cymes) on the terminal 

 inch or two of the branches of the cymes. Calyx about "05 in. long, 

 only about a sixth or a seventh as long as the corolla, cleft nearly to the 

 base into 4 broadly triangular acute spreading segments. Corolla-tube 

 4-angled ; the limb short, with 4 ovate teeth, glabrous. Anthers 4, 

 oblong, sessile or nearly so, near the throat. Fruit broadly ovoid, 

 •15 to '2 in. long, with 4 vertical grooves (2 of them deep) on the sides, 

 and a depression on the apex. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 147. 

 T. tetrandra, Wall. Cat. 911 {not of Blume). Tetrandra Wallichii, Miq. 

 M. Ind. Bat. II. 928. 



SiNGAPOEE : 2Iaingay (K.D.) 1165, 8041 ; King's Collector 302.. 

 Peeak: Wray 3536; Bidley 2431; Kings Collector 3335, 5158 

 Scortechini 1494. — Disteeb. Java, Sumatra. 



3. Helioteopium, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs, very hairy or scabrous. Leaves alter- 

 nate. Flotvers small, white, or pale purple, sometimes in terminal 

 dichotomous cymes with scorpioid branches and small or no bracts, 

 sometimes axillary in the axils of large bracts. Calyx divided into 

 5 linear or lanceolate segments. Corolla with a cylindric tube and Hrab 

 of various shapes, the lobes of the latter always imbricate or induplicate 

 in bud, spreading in flower. Stamens 5, included, inserted on the tube 

 by short filaments ; anthers ovate-oblong or lanceolate. Ovary com- 

 pletely or imperfectly 4-celled, 4-ovulate ; style short or long, terminal, 

 with a depressed conical or flat disk on its apex ; stigma above the disk,, 

 none or short or elongate, entire or rarely bifid. Fruit dry, 2- to 

 4-grooved or -lobed, and consisting of 4 nutlets free from the beginning- 

 or finally becoming so. Seeds straight or ciirved; albumen none, small 

 or large ; cotyledons plano-convex. — Disteeb. Species about 225,. 

 widely distributed in both hemispheres. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 1--5 to 2-.5 in. long . . . . . . 1. JT. indicum. 



Leaves linear, o to 1 in. long . . . . . . .. 2. H. strigosum, 



1. Helioteopium indicum, Linn. Sp. PI. 130 (1753). Herbaceous, 



