636 |. Urban. 
Obs. Non huc pertinet P. coccinea Choisy in DC. Prodr. XIII. 2. p. 446 nec Grisb. 
Flor. p. 74. 
Valde divaricato-ramificata. Rami tenues, flexuosi, innovationibus gemmulisque 
paulum puberulis exceptis glabri, peridermio griseolo, longitudinaliter ruguloso, ramulis 
brevibus, patentibus, apices versus foliatis, inflorescentiis terminalibus. Folia plerumque 
alterna, rarius opposita, vivo »fusco-viridia« (sec. Swartz), subdiscoloria, herbacea, nervo 
mediano distincto, paulum prominenti, nervis lateralibus paucis non prominentibus, 
arcuatis. Inflorescentiae terminales, ex apicibus ramulorum hornotinorum orientes, 
glabrae, pedunculo communi filiformi, c. 30—40 mm longo, v. solum flores 3—5 in 
racemum brevissimum confertos gerente v. ramulos 2 oppositos, apice 2—3-floros por- 
tante. Flores basi foliolis 3, c. 4—1,5 mm longis, lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, glabrius- 
culis suffulti, sec. Swartz »ex albido fusci«, sec. Pıcarva (in sched.)albidi. Perianthia á 
consistentia firmiore, dentibus late triangutaribus, acutiusculis erectis, Stamina saepe 
7 (sec. Swartz eliam 8—40) inaequilonga, maiora ad 4,5 mm longa, minora c. 3 mm 
longa, filamentis filiformibus basi paulisper dilatatis ibique vix cohaerentibus, antheris 
oblongo-ellipsoideis, c. 4,5 mm longis, luteis (sec, Swartz). Germinis rudimentum 
c. 9 mm longum, ovario ovoideo, stylo brevi, crasso, obtusato, PerianthiaQsubore vix 
constricta, apice breve quinquedentata, dentibus brevissimis obtusiusculis, subcoriacea. 
Germen (c. 2,5 mm longum) ovario ovoideo, stylo filiformi. Staminodia minutissima. 
Anthocarpia apice minute coronata, »capsula tecta perianthio in baccam oblongam 
glabram, coccineam mutato« (Swanrz 1. c.). 
Habitat in Haiti ad Marquissant prope mare m. April. flor., prope 
Port au Prince m. April. flor.: Bertero n. 1036 (spec. fruct. sub Psychotria 
biflora Sprengel), Jacquemont (cj), Picarda n.322 (51), 366 (Q), Swartz (5). 
VH. Boldoa Cavanill. 
18. B. ovatifolia Lag. Nov. Gen. p. 10; Grisb. Cat. p. 24. 
Boldoa purpurascens Cavan. Hort. Madrit. t. VII; Choisy in DC. 
Prodr. XIII. 2. p. 459. 
Boldoa paniculata Mart. et Gal. Enum. in Bull. de l'Acad. Brux. X. I. 
p. 956; Choisy in DC. Prodr. XIII. 2. p. 459. 
Cryptocarpus rhomboideus Moqu. in DC. Prodr. XIII. 2. p. 88. 
Cryptocarpus globosus H.B.K. Nov. Gen. p. 187. t. 125 ; Rich. in Sagra 
Cub. XI. 180; Grisb. Cat. 25; Sauv. Cub. p. 155. 
Chenopodium petiolare Mart. et Gal. l. c. p. 5, — non Kunth. 
Boerhavia rhomboidea Humboldt in Link, Jahrb. d. Gew. 1. 5. p. 66. 
Salpianthus purpureus Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 508. 
Habitat in Cuba, e. gr. in graminosis ad flumen San Juan: Poeppig, 
Ramon de la Sagra, Read, — praeterea in Mexico et Venezuela. 
