Heliutropium.] 
LXXXIV. BORAGINE.L. 
1043 
Flowers few, sessile within the uppermost leaves or forming leafy 
spikes. Leaves sessile, small. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, rather crowded. Anthers scarcely pointed. 
Style longer than the stigma 3. H. fasciculatum. 
Leaves lanceolate or linear, distant. Anther-points long. Style 
very short 4. H brachygyne. 
Sect. III. Schleidenia . — Stigma a thick ring round a central cone or point. Anthers 
acuminate, cohering by the minutely hairy tips Corolla-throat bearded or pubescent inside. 
Corolla-tube scarcely swollen. Style shorter than the stigma. Calyx- 
segments very unequal. 
Leaves obovate-oblong or lanceolate, flat. Spikes without bracts . . 5. H. uvali/olium. 
Leaves linear with revolute margins. Spikes bracteate .... (i. H. strigonum. 
Leaves lanceolate. Flowers axillary, scarcely forming leafy spikes . 4. H. brachygyve. 
Corolla- tube swollen round the anthers at or above the middle. Style 
as long as or longer than the stigma. 
Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, flat or with recurved margins, 
mostly acute and above Jin. loDg. Bracts leaf-like. Plant 
hirsute or pubescent. 
Stems long and prostrate. Corolla-limb longer than the tube. 
Bracts small 7. II. prostratum . 
Stems diffuse. Bracts longer than the calyx, petiolate or con- 
tracted at the base 8. H. braeteatum . 
Stems ascending or erect. Bracts longer than the calyx, sessile. 
Leaves rather crowded, narrow. Nuts usually 4 . ....!). H. pauciflorum. 
Leaves oi long-lanceolate, obtuse, crowded, under 2 lines long. Bracts 
leaf like, imbricate. Plant cottony- white 10. H. filaginoides. 
Leaves all narrow-linear, with revolute margins. Bracts rarely 
exceeding the calyx, usually few and small. Nuts usually 
scabrou'-pubescent. Stigmatic cone very short. 
Erect slightly-branched annual. Hairs spreading. Corolla-tube 
very slender 11. H. ventricostm. 
Stem paniculately branched. Hairs appressed. Calyx-segments 
acuminate. 
Calyx 2 lines long. Leaves linear 12. H. lenuifolium. 
Calyx 1 line long. Leaves filiform . . .... 13. H. panicnlatiiw. 
Sect. IV. Heliophy turn . — Fruit milri/orm, subacutely i- pointed. 
Leaves petiolate, ovate, subserrate. Spikes elongate, dense, ebracteate. 
Fruit separating into 2 2-seeded 2-pointed pyrenes ...... 14. 7/ indicum. 
Leaves sessile, margins undulate. Peduncles bearing usually 2 spikes . 15. ‘H. anchiisie/oliuiu. 
1. H. curassavicum (Curassavian), Linn.; DC. Prod. ix. 588 ; Benth. FL 
Austr iv. 898. A much-branched prostrate glabrous and glaucous perennial, 
often somewhat succulent, spreading sometimes to 2 or 3ft. Leaves linear 
oblanceolate or oblong, usually obtuse and narrowed into a short petiole, rarely 
obovate, rather thick, veinless except the midrib, ^ to lin. long. Spikes once- 
forked or rarely simple, terminal or lateral. Flowers sessile, without bracts. 
Calyx-segments obtuse, nearly 1 line long. Corolla white or with a yellow eye, 
the tube about 1 line long, the throat not bearded ; lobes broad, as long as the 
tube. Anthers nearly sessile at the base of the tube. Ovary depressed-globular, 
capped by an umbrella-shaped almost sessile stigma, often broader than the 
.ovary itself. — Lehm. PI. Preiss. i. 848 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2669. 
Hab.: Inland tropical localities. 
The species is frequent in sandy places, chiefly on the seacoast. in North and South America, 
South Africa, and the Pacific Islands. The ovary and fruit are occasionally but rarely 3-meious 
(with 6 ovary-cells and nuts ). — Benth 
2. IX. asperrimum (very rough), II. Br. Prod. 493; benth. FL. Austr. iv. 894. 
A perennial with erect or ascending stems of 1 to lift., the branches and foliage 
very scabrous and sprinkled with rigid spreading hairs. Leaves shortly petiolate. 
