Gen. Ghab. Galyx 5-partite or 5-cleft, persistent : corolla cup- 

 shaped, throat contracted, 5-rayed, lobes of the limb obtuse, often 

 undulate : anthers included : style very short : stigma capitate 

 or conical ; nuts two, separable^ 2-s6eded, 2-CeUed, (sometimes 

 furnished with 1-2 empty cells.) 



(1) H. Indicum. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. IX. p. 557. 



^■yn. Heliotropium Indicum, Linn. — H. cordifoliuni, Mcench.-^ 

 Tiaridium Indicum, Lehm. — H. anisophyllum, Beauv. — T. aniso- 

 phyllura, Don. Syst. 



Engrav. Sim's Bot. Mag. t. 1837.— Pluk. Aim. t. 245. f. 2. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, branched, hairy : leaves 

 opposite and alternate, petiolfed, cordate-ovate, or oval, decurrent at 

 the base into the petiole, subserrated, wrinkled : spikes terminal, 

 solitary, simple : fruit glabrous, 2-cleft, mitre-shaped, segments 

 divaricate, 4-celled, 2-seeded : flowers small, lilac-bluish. 



A common weed, usually found among rubbish in the Peninsula, 

 flowering in the rainy season. 



GENUS VII. COLDENIA. 



Tetraiidria Ti*igyiii». Seia Syst: 



Deriv. Named in honor of C. Golden, ^ North American Bo- 

 tanist. 

 » Gbs. Ghab. Galyx 5, (rarely 4)-parted : corolla fiinnel-shaped, 

 throat enlarged, naked, lobes 5, (rarely 4)-parted, subrotund, flat, 

 spreading : stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla, ; style 

 2-cleft : nuts 4, 1-celled, somewhat 3-cornered, externallj' convex, 

 acuminated, coherent at the base into a pyramidal fruit : seeds 

 with fleshy albumen : embryo inverse : cotyledons conduplicate. 



(1) G. pRocuMBENS. {Linu.} 



Ident. Linn. Sp. p. 182. — Dec. prod. IX. p. 558. 

 Ungrav. Lam. 111. t. 69.— Pluk. Aim. t. 64. f. 6. 



Spec. Char. Stems procumbent, hirsute : leaves short-petioled," 

 obovate, unequally produced at the base above the petiole, plicate, 

 coarsely toothed, with adpressed villous hairs above, beneath hir- 

 sute : flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, small, white : nuts wrin- 

 kled, rough. 



Common in rice fields in most parts of the country, flowering in 

 *the cold season. 



