4 CIV. NYCTAGINEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). — [| Boerhaavia. 
1-flowered or 2—3-chotomous and very short ; bracteoles 2-3, deciduous. 
Upper part of perianth campanulate with inflexed margin, reddish, 
hirtulous outside ; lower part pyriform, dirty greenish, densely covered 
with rather long glandular hairs and having 5 prominent nearly 
smooth ribs. Stamens 3, unequal, included. Stigma rather large, 
peltate.—Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. App. iil. 67. 
Lower Guinea. German Sonth-west Africa: Hereroland; in stony places 
at Otymbingue, 2900 ft., Marloth, 1403 ! Linden. 
3. B. adscendens, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 19. Stem glabrous except in 
the young parts, ascending, 2-3 ft. high. Leaves usually opposite, 
ovate-oblong or -rotundate, slightly sinuate, acute or rather obtuse, up 
to 2 in. long and 1} in. wide, usually glabrous except when young, dark 
green above, paler beneath; petiole up to lin. long. Panicle terminal, 
diffuse, up to 9 in. long; ultimate branches slender, rigid, bearing 4— 
sessile flowers at their apex. Perianth about 1 lin. long. Fruit- 
perianth elliptic, 14 lin. long, smooth or faintly striate —Schum. «& 
Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 17; Vahl, Enum. i. 285; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 882 partly. 3B. ascendens, Choisy in DC. Prodr. xiii. i). 
451. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 367! Southern Nigeria : 
Abeokuta, Irving, 186! Quorra (Niger) River, Vogel, 4! Nun River, Mann, 478! 
Nile Land. Upper Sennar: Fazokl, Kotschy, 573 partly! Somaliland 
Shaile Pass, Wiss Edith Cole ! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Mann, 1102! Angola: Ambriz; at 
Quisembo, Welwitsch, 5382! Barra do Dande ; hilly places near the mouth of the 
River Dande, Welwitsch, 5392!  Loanda: Cazanga Island, Welwitsch, 5383 ! 
hilly places at Praia da Zamba Grande, Welwitsch, 5393 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; 
Blantyre, Buchanan, 86! 
4, B. repens, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 3. Herbaceous, much-branched. 
Stems slender, cylindrical, glabrous or nearly so, thickened at the 
nodes. Leaves in unequal pairs at each node, ovate or lanceolate, 
acute or obtuse, rounded at the base, slightly undulate, usually 
glabrous, rarely more than 1 in. long and 9 lin. broad. Peduncles 
axillary, slender, bearing 4—10-flowered umbels; bracts small, lanceo- 
late. Perianth about 1 lin. long; tube clavate, 5-ribbed, glandular 
between the ribs; lobes very short, rounded, pinkish. Stamens 1-3, 
as long as or slightly longer than the perianth. Stigma peltate. 
Fruit 14 lin. long, enclosed in the strongly 5-ribbed glandular basal part 
of the perianth.—Choisy in DC. Prodr, xiii. ii. 453 (incl. var. glabra) ; 
Delile, Fl. Egypte, ii. 2, t. 3, fig. 1 (var. minor); Schweinf. Beitr. F). 
Aethiop. 168, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 166. Hiern in Cat. 
Afr, Pl. Welw. i, 882 partly. DB. vulvarifolia, Poir, Encycl. v. 55. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Leprieur / 
Mile Land. Nubia: El Galabeheb, Kralik! Erkowit Mountain, near 
Suakin, Schweinfurth, 291! Wady Abu Selem, Schweinfurth, 499! Ethiopia, 
