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LXXXIV. BORAGINEyE. 
I Heliotropium . 
oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, with undulate revolute margins but not very rugose, 
1 to 2in. long. Spikes short and dense, once or sometimes twice-forked, rarely 
simple, without bracts. Calyx-segments linear or lanceolate, hispid, 2 lines long. 
Corolla-tube shortly exceeding the calyx, the throat glabrous inside ; lobes much 
plicate, very broad, expanding to Jin. diameter. Anthers oblong, very shortly 
acuminate. Style filiform ; stigmatic cone long and narrow, but shorter than 
the style. — DC. Prod. ix. 542 ; H. foliatum, Lehm. PI. Preiss. ii. 288 (from the 
description given) not of R. Br. 
Hab.: Inland localities. 
8. H. fasciculatum (leaves bunched), R. Br. Prod. 494 ; Benth. Pl. Austr. 
iv. 895. An erect hard annual, looking almost woody at the base, with rigid 
divaricate branches and hispid with rigid half-spreading hairs. Leaves rather 
crowded, sessile, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, with thickened nerve-like 
rigidly ciliate margins, all except a few on the main stem under Jin. long. 
Flowers few, scattered, sessile amongst the upper floral leaves, scarcely forming 
leafy spikes. Calyx-segments lanceolate, rather acute, hispid, about 1 line long. 
Corolla hirsute, the tube rather longer than the calyx, the throat glabrous inside. 
Anthers ovate-triangular, scarcely acuminate. Style terete, more than twice as 
long as the ovary ; stigma very broad, the thick cone rather shorter than the 
style. — DC. Prod. ix. 547. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gnlf of Carpentaria, 7?. Brown. 
4. H. brachygryne (style short), Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 396. Diffuse or much 
branched and hirsute, probably annual, some specimens almost erect and scarcely 
Gin. high, others very diffuse with branches of above 1ft. Leaves lanceolate or 
oblong-linear, obtuse, with revolute margins, narrowed at the base but sessile, 
under Jin. long. Flowers few in the uppermost axils, forming very short leafy 
spikes, the floral leaves or bracts as long as or longer than the calyx. Calyx- 
segments about 1J line long, rather obtuse and somewhat unequal. Corolla- 
tube shorter than the calyx, not ventricose nor bearded in the throat ; lobes 
shorter than the tube. Anthers with rather long connivent points. Style very 
short, with a broad, thick stigma and a very small central cone. Fruit 
depressed-globular, the nuts scabrous. 
Hab : Burnett River. F. v. Mueller. 
5. H. ovalifolium (leaves oval), Forsk.; R. Br. Prod. 493 ; Benth. PI. Austi . 
iv. 896. A procumbent or diffuse annual, hoary or white all over with appressed 
rigid or silky hairs. Leaves petiolate, oval obovate or oblong, very obtuse in the 
common form, entire, the veins not very prominent, mostly J to lin. long. 
Spikes rather slender, simple or once-forked, without bracts. Calyx-segments 
hirsute, not 1 line long, one much broader than the other four. Corolla-tube 
hirsute, not 1 line long, the throat bearded inside with a ring of reflexed hairs 
sometimes reduced to very few ; lobes rather shorter than the tube. Anthers 
inserted below the middle of the tube, ovate, acuminate, the points nearly as 
long as the cells and usually cohering at the tips by minute terminal tufts of 
hairs. Stigma with a linear-conical point, longer than the very short style. 
Nuts small, hispid . — IF coroniandelianum, Retz ; DC. Prod. ix. 541 ; Wight, Ic. 
t. 1888. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Rockingham 
and Edgecombe Bays, Dollar Inj ; Rockhampton, O' Shanes}/ ; Broadsound. Nerkool Creek, Bowen 
River, Bowman. 
