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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 hairs. 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 1'5 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. Flowers 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 -1 in. long, conical, with 
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. PI. Ind. I. 454 ; Bot. Mag. 1. 1837 ; Clarke in Hook, 
fil. FI. Br. Ind. IV. 152 ; Trimen FI. Ceyl. III. 200 ; Cooke FI. Bomb. 
II. 207 ; Prain Beng. Plants 716. H. anisophyllum, Beauv. FI. 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. FI. Brasil, 
fasc. 22, 48, t. 10, fig. 4 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 925. H. velutinum, DC. 
l.c. 557. 
Singapore : King's Collector 318 ; Hullctt 21. Pahang : Bulley 
1547. Penang : Deschamps. Perak : Scortechini 163. — Distrib. 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 T in. broad, glabrous and shining, sometimes with a few 
small hairs. DC. Prod. IX. 546 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. IV. 
151 ; Boiss. FI. Orient. IV. 143 ; Prain Beng. Plants 716. H. brevi- 
folium, Wall. Cat. 914 ; Wall, in Boxb. FI. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. II. 2; 
DC. l.c. 546. H compactum, Don Prod. 101. 
