JleUotropium.] c. boeaginejs. (C. B. Clarke.) 151 



Avals jg in., oblong, scabrous, rigid, persistent after the nutlets hare fallen. Corolla^ 

 tme ^ in., tubular, scabrous without; lobes very small, ovate. Nutlets 4, ^ in., ver- 

 rucose or bristly. — Boissier says that H. affghamam has the corolla hairy within, and 

 thus differs from H. undulaium, Wt the type of H. affghanum (viz., Griffith, Kew 

 .Distrib. n. 6936) altogether agrees with H. midulatum. 



Vak. suherosa; fruits depressed -globose | in. diam. glabrous dividing into 2 two- 

 seeded nutlets with corky cells on the back. H. nubicum, Buiige in Bull. Boa. Imp. 

 Nat. Mosc. 1869, 330?. — Scinde, Stocks. The seeds are as in H. undulatiim. This 

 was collected by Stocks as part of his n. 473, and is probably a variety of H. v/ndmla- 

 iwm affected by an insect-punctures ; but it is remarkable that Stocks' example has 

 very numerous flowers and fruits, and that every ovary, without exception, appears to 

 form a corky fruit. 



*•* Learns small or very narrow, subentire, scabroits hairy ; Jloivers mostly 

 .bracteate, lower often 'pedicelled or with lea/like bracts. 



t Stigma elongate conic. 



9. K. Xtottleri, Lehm. Asperifol. 66 ; woody, leaves small oblong, 

 Tacemes long with distant flowers, fruit depressed distinctly 4r-lobed completely 

 covered by short grey adpressed hairs with a depressed hollow at the apex 

 whence springs the style. HC. Prodr. ix. 649 ; Wight Ic. 1. 1392 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. 

 JBomb. Fl. 171. 



Deccan Peninsula ; Coimbatore, alt. 1000 ft., Wight, &e. 



Very harsh, with stiff curved branches. Leaves ^ by J in., sessile, scattered, 

 margins recurved when dry. Eacemes 2-4 in., stiff, curved ; pedicels solitary, each 

 ■opposite a bract. Sepals ^ in., ovate, acute, similar to the bracts. Stigma ovate, 

 shortly acute. Frmit -^ in. long by -^ broad. 



10. K. paniculatuxn, £r. Prodr. 494, not of Poxb. ; erect, subvirgate, 

 Jeaves linear, racemes filiform elongate, fruit depressed subdivarieately 4A6hei 

 glabrous or with few scattered minute hairs. DC. Prodr. ix. 547 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austral, iv. 899. H. glabellmn, Br. I. c. 494 ; DC. I. c. 548. H. linifolium, 

 Lehm. Asperifol. 35 ; DC. I. c. 647 ; Wi^ht Ic. t. 1391. H. tenue. Wall. Cat. 

 915 ; DC. I. c. 548, not of Poem. ^ Sch. H. zeylaniciun, Heyne in Herb. Rottl.; 

 DC. (under H. glabellum) I.e. 548. Oynoglossum zeylanicum, Wight in Wall. 

 Cat. 7018, not Heliotropium zeylanicum. Wall. 



S. Deccan and Ceylon, Bottler, Wight. Pegu, WaUich. — Disteib. Siam, Australia. 



Bram^hes erect, twiggy. Leaves 1 by jj in. Eacemes 2-6 in. ; pedicels subopposite 

 .a small linear bract or often extra^axillary. Sepals i in., ovate, acute. Stigma 

 •conical-linear. Frmit Jj by ^ in. — Wight called a rather stouter form, with leaves 

 ,J in. wide and larger flowers, H. tenue, the ordinary form H. linifolium ; but the 

 difference is slight. 



11. H. strlgrosum, WiUd. Sp. Pi. i. 743 ; ramous, leaves small linear- 

 lanceolate, spikes mostly elongate, upper flowers sessile not conspicuously 

 toacteate, fruit ovoid not or obscurely 4-lobed with minute grey hairs. DC. 

 Prodr. ix. 546 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 148. 



Throughout India ; very common. — Distrib. W. Asia, Malaya, Australia. 



Usually procumbent, intricately branched. Leaves f by ^ in. Lower flowers of 

 the spike often pedicelled, with larger bracts. Sepals i in., uvate-lanceolate. Stigma 

 .ovate, linear. Fyuif jg-^ in. long and broad, depressed conical at the apex. 



Vab. brevifolia ; leaves i by ^ in. narrowly lanceolate. H. brevifolium, Wall. 

 Cat. 914, and in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed Carey ^ Wall. ii. 2; DC. I. o. 846. H. compactum, 

 Don Prodr. 101. — Throughout India, even more abundant than S. strigosum type. 



12. K. bracteatuxu, DC. Prodr. 493; suBerect, leaves lanceolate, spikes 

 isTiortened, flowers crowded among prominent bracts, fruit distinctly 4-lobed 



