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but woody at the base, a foot or two in height, with few branches ; 

 the branches, lower parts of the inflorescence, and the petioles with 

 white stiff haii's. Leaves membranous, greenish-brown when dry ; 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, slightly inequilateral, the apex usually acute, 

 the base rounded, irregularly cordate, often unequally so ; both surfaces 

 with some scattered long white hairs ; the lower surface pale and 

 faintly reticulate when dry ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, rather straight, 

 ascending, slightly prominent on the lower surface ; length 1'5 to 

 2-5 in., breadth -75 to 2 in. ; petioles 4 to I'S in. Cymes scorpioid, 

 terminal and lateral (extra-axillary), about 2 in. long (lengthening with 

 age to 5 or 6 in.), on peduncles about 1 in. long ; the rachises hispid, 

 compressed when dry. Floioers about -15 in. long, sessile, numerous. 

 Calyx about -05 in. long, deeply divided into 5 narrowly lanceolate 

 sub-erect hispid segments. Corolla tubular, slightly dilated at the base; 

 the limb with 5 broad blunt reflexed lobes; anthers 5, included, 

 inserted about the middle of the tube. Fruit •! in. long, conical, witJi 

 an apical beak and with 4 bold vertical ridges and 4 faint ones, glabrous 

 naturally separating into 2 halves, each half consisting of 2 cohering 

 pyriform pyrenes with long beaks and a single large sub-quadrate 

 white seed. Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 454 ; Bot. Mag. 1. 1837 ; Clarke in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 152 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 200 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 

 II. 207 ; Prain Beng. Plants 716. H. anisophyllum, Beauv. Fl. Ow. et 

 Ben. II. 62, t. 96. Tiaridium indicum, Lehm. Asperifol. 14 ; Wall. Cat. 

 913 ; Wight 111. t. 171. T. anisophyllum, G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 364. 

 Heliophyllum indicum, DC. Prod. IX. 556; Fresen. in Mart. Fl. Brasil, 

 fasc. 22, 48, t. 10, fig. 4 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 925. H. velutinum, DC. 

 I.e. 557. 



SiNGAPOEE : King's Collector 318 ; Hidlett 21. Pahang : Bidley 

 1547. Penang : Deschamps. Peeak : Scortechini 163. — Distbib. India, 

 Malaya, E. Asia, tropical Africa and America. 



2. Heliotropium steigosum, Willd. Sp. PI. I. 743 (1797). Herbace- 

 ous, woody at the base, erect, a foot high, the branches few, slender, 

 long, not spreading, very strigose, like all the rest of the plant. Leaves 

 linear, -5 to 1 in. long, very narrow, becoming smaller upwards. 

 Flowers under -1 in. long ; their pedicels longer, sub-opposite to a linear 

 bract or often extra-axillary. Sepals ovate-acute, enlarging in fruit. 

 Corolla salver-shaped ; stigma narrowly conical. Fruit depressed, 

 4-lobed, under "1 in. broad, glabrous and shining, sometimes with a few 

 small hairs. DC. Prod. IX. 546 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 

 151 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. IV. 143 ; Prain Beng. Plants 716. H. brevi- 

 folium, Wall. Cat. 914 ; WaU. in Eoxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. II. 2; 

 DC. I.e. 546. H compactum, Don Prod. 101. 



