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linear to lanceolate. Corolla-tube a little longer than the calyx, slightly 
swollen about the middle ; lobes 3 line long, ovate, obtuse, crisped. 
Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers ovare, 
obtuse, crisped. Ovary globose ; style ^ line long, glabrous ; stigma 
shortly conical, persisting on the young fruit. 
Fruit depressed, obtusely 4-lobed, line long, hirsute above, 
separating into 4 nutlets, rounded not angled on the back. 
Flowers /—January 1863 (Oliver and Cl.), February (Madden), 
March 1878 (Perry), November 1888 (Schweinf.), December 184*7 
(Hooker). 
Fruits ; — December 1847 (Hooker). 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley, plain of Maala, Shum Shum Range 
(Schweinf.) ; plain of Maala, crater of Shum Shum Range (Defl.) ; from 
the sea-shore to the top of the Shum Shum Range (Edgw., Hook., 
Anders.) ; great valley between Steamer Point and town (Marchesetti) ; 
slope of - Shum Shum Range (Hildebr.) ; without locality (Birdw., 
Perry, Madden, Oliver and Cl.) . 
Distribution .-—Tropics of the Old World. 
3. Heliotropinm zeylaniciiiii Lam. Encycl. Ill, 94 (not of Wail.) ; 
Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. IV, 148. 
Heliotropium paniculatum Heyne in Herb. Rottler. 
Tournefortia subulata Hochst. in DC. Prodr. IX, 528. 
Heliotropium subulatum Hochst. Nub. n. 163 and in DC. Prodr. 
IX, 523. 
Tournefortia royleana DC. Prodr. IX, 527. 
Tournefortia edgeworthii DC. Prodr. IX, 529. 
Tournefortia zeylanica Wight. 111. t. 170. 
Messerschmidia hispida Benth. in Royle 111. 360. 
Heliotropium curassavicum var. zeylanicum Burm. Flor. Ind. 41, t. 
16, f. 2 . 
Description : — An erect annual, 1 — 3 feet high, scabrous and 
coarsely hairy with stiff hairs arising from white bulbous bases, the 
globose bases showing distinctly in dried specimens Leaves 1 — 2 by 
J | inch, sessile or nearly so, lanceolate, acute, entire, densely clothed 
with stiff hairs arising from white bulbous bases, base tapering. 
Flowers sessile, in elongate spikes 2 — 6 inches loner, usually in one 
rank along the rhachis, but sometimes, especially towards the apex of 
the spike, 2 -ranked. Calyx inch long, hairy on both sides, divided 
to the base ; sepales ovate, acute, densely ciliate. Corolla-tube j? — 4 
inch long, the upper half slightly swollen and setose outside ; lobes yL — - 
k inch long, caudate-acuminate, spreading. Stamens inserted in the 
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