Heliotropium. } BORAGINE. 715 
almost dry drupe, not clearly separating into 2 distinct pyrenes ; 
_ pyrenes each 2-celled, 2-seeded. Seed straight or curved ; albumen 
fleshy. 
Corolla-tube nearly thrice as long as calyx-teeth Roxburghti 
Corolla-tube hardly exceeding the calyx-teeth see viridijlora 
1302. Tournerortis Roxpureumt Clarke; F. B. I. iv. 146. 
Heliotropium paniculatum F. 1. i. 455. H. Roxburghii 
F. B. I. iv. 158. 
Chittagong. 
A small, rambling shrub. 
1803. TouRNEFORTIA VIRIDIFLORA Wall. ; F. B. I. iv. 146. Litho- 
spermum viridifiorum F, I. i. 455. 
Chittagong. 
A small shrub; not so common as the preceding. 
606. Heliotropium Linn. 
Annual or perennial, villous or scabrid herbs, rarely under- 
shrubs or shrubs ; leaves alternate. Flowers small, white or pale 
Purple, in usually terminal, dichotomous cymes, with often long, 
im 
calyx ; Segments lanceolate or linear, rarely short. Petals 5, con- 
nate in a tubular corolla; throat naked; lobes spreading in 
flower, imbricate or induplicate in bud. Stamens 5, adnate to 
corolla-tube, included; filaments very short; anthers ovate or 
lanceolate, Carpels connate in a more or less perfectly 4-celled 
or curved ; albumen scanty or 0, rarely copious. 
Calyx enveloping the fruit; lobes short, subvalvate; leaves petioled, 
elliptic-ovate ; spikes short, woolly ee stypinum 
Calyx not enveloping the fruit; lobes narrow, long :— 
*Fruit breaking up into four nutlike, 1-seeded pyrenes :—[p. 716] 
Leaves elliptic or obovate, obtuse, mucronate or not; spikes per- 
: Sistently bracteate.. ovalifolium, 
Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute :— 
