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RXV. BORAGINACEiE 
long, girt at the base by the enlarged, cup-shaped calyx ; stone 
wrinkled, containing 1-4 seeds. 
Valleys below Simla ; March, April. —Throughout India, ascending to 
5000 ft. — Tropical regions of the Old World ; often cultivated. 
C. vestita, Hook. f. & Thoms . ; FI. Br. Ind. iv. 139, a small tree, extends from 
the Jhelum to Oudh, and may occur in the outer hills. The buds and young 
shoots are thickly clothed with long, red brown hairs, and the flowers are pale 
yellow. 
2. EHRETIA. In honour of G. D. Ehret, a German botanical 
artist of the eighteenth century, much of whose work was done in 
England. He married a sister of the celebrated Philip Miller. — 
Tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. 
Ehretia leevis, Boxb. ; FI. Br. Ind. iv. 141. A tree. Leaves 
alternate, stalked, ovate or orbicular, 2-5 in., entire ; upper surface 
glabrous, lower roughly pubescent. Flowers white, nearly \ in. 
diam., in one-sided, slender spikes forming terminal or axillary 
corymbs. Calyx pubescent, 5-lobed. Corolla-tube very short ; 
lobes long, spreading. Stamens protruding. Ovary ovoid, 
2 celled ; style terminal, cleft near the top into 2 branches ; 
ovules 2 in each cell. Drupe red, globose, J in. diam., containing 
3 or 4 small, 1-seeded stones. 
Sutlej valley, Basantpur ; January- April. — Throughout India, ascending to 
3000 ft. — Tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. 
E. acuminata, R. Br . ; FI. Br. Ind. iv. 141, a tree, extends from the 
Indus to Sikkim, and may occur in the outer hills ; it differs from the above 
in having ovate-oblong, sharply toothed leaves, and in the drupe containing only 
two stones. 
3. HELIOTROPIUM. The classical name of H. europtxum, 
from the Greek helios, the sun, and tropeo, to turn towards. — 
Nearly all tropical and temperate regions. 
Heliotropium strigosum, Willd . ; FI. Br. Ind. iv. 151. A small, 
perennial, usually procumbent herb, clothed with short, white, 
appressed hairs ; stems tufted, spreading, much branched, 1-6 in. 
long. Leaves alternate, nearly sessile, linear-lanceolate, in., 
entire, acute. Flowers pale blue or white, -^o i n - diam., in ter- 
minal, bracteate spikes 1-3 in. long, lower flowers often shortly 
stalked. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla-tube cylindric, about twice as 
long as the calyx ; lobes spreading. Stamens included. Ovary 
ovoid, 4-celled; style terminal, short, stigma conical; ovule one 
in each cell. Fruit of 4 more or less united, minute, 1-seeded 
nutlets. 
Valleys below Simla; July-September. — Throughout India, ascending to 
5000 ft. — Tropical Asia, Australia. 
