% "TENTANDRIA IHONOGYNIA-.' HeliotrOlium. 



2. H. coromandelianum, Willd. Sp. i. 742. 



Annual, ascending, pubescent. Leaves petioled obovate, entire. 

 Spikes paired, and solitary. 



Beng. Naga-phoollee. 



A native of CoromandeJ, Bengal. Sec. flowering time the hot and 

 irainy season. 



Root simple, annual. — Stems several, near the base spreading on 

 the ground, afterwards ascending ; clothed with white, soft hair. — - 

 Leaves scattered, petioled, obovate, entire, hairy like the stems and 

 branches. — Spikes terminal, and interspersed among the leaves, 

 generally paired. Flowers numerous, small, white, placed in a 

 waved row on the upper side of the spikes.— Calyx half the length 

 of the corol, the exterior, inferior, divisions longer. 



3. H. paniculatum, R. 



■Erect, ramous, hairy. Leaves petioled, ovate-oblong. Spikes 

 terminal, panicled, secund. Tube of the corol long and gibbous. 

 A native of Chittagong, flowers during the hot season. 



4. H. brevifolium, Wall. 



Covered with adpressed greyish hairs •, stems prostrate, densely 

 tufted ; leaves approximate, alternate, sessile, narrow-linear, sub- 

 falcate, with recurved margins ; racemes terminal, slender, straight ; 

 the short bractes opposite to, and equalling the peduncles, linear; 

 calyx and seeds strigose. 



Cultivated by the Rev. Dr. Carey, in whose garden it came up 

 accidentally. I have received specimens from the vicinity of Kat«- 

 manda and Gosain-Than,* in Nepal«. 



* A noted place of religious resort within the first range of the Himalwya 

 mountains, about seven days journey from Katumanda, very little to the west- 

 ward of North, and greatly elevated above the level of that place. My esteemed 

 i'riends the Hon. E. Gardner and Mr. Robert Stuart have repeatedly sent collect- 

 ing parties from the residency atNepala to that most interesting place, which have 

 as often returned with a rich harvest of specimens, seeds and roots strikingly re- 

 sembling] 



