Boerhaavia.]  ClV. NYCTAGINEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). i) 
Kotschy, 88! 172! 358! Kordofan: Abu-Gerad, Kofschy, 35! Galabat: region 
of Matamma, Schweinfurth, 2480! Bara, Pfund, 676! Eritrea: Ras Madour, 
near Massowa, Schweinfurth & Riva, 29! Mount Ghedem, near Massowa, 
Schweinfurth & Riva, 91! near Saati, Schweinfurth § Riva, 342! Abyssinia : by 
the Tacazze River, near Gursarfa, Schimper, 2221! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in sandy rocky parts of the 
Presidium, &c., Welwitsch, 5385! Icolo e Bengo; in dried-up pools at the River 
Bengo, Welwitsch, 5387! around Lagoa de Quilonde, Welwitsch, 5388! Loanda; 
near Penedo, Welwitsch, 5389! and between Penedo and Conceicaio, Welwitsch, 
5390! and without precise locality, Gossweiler, 215! 215B ! 
Var. diffusa, Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 709. Stems usually several from a 
woody rootstock, glabrous or pubescent, Leaves ovate or ovate-rotundate, obtuse, 
sinuate, usually about 1 in. long and slightly less in breadth, usually pubescent or 
puberulous on both surfaces, pale green beneath. Inflorescence and flowers as in 
the type. Fruit 14 lin. long, clavate, strongly 5-ribbed, less glandular between the 
ribs than in the type.—B. diffusa, Linn. F). Zeyl. 4 and Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 3; Choisy in 
DC, Prodr. xiii. ii. 452; F. Muell. Key Vict. Pl. 169, t. 44. B. hirsuta, Willd. 
Phytogr. 1. B. procumbens, Roxb. FI. Ind, ed. 1, 148; Wight, Ic. t. 874.—Talu- 
Dama, Rheede, Hort. Malab. vii. 105, t. 56. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Richard Toll, Dollinger, 24! Sierra Leone: 
N.E. from Sierra Leone, Garrett! Searcies Valley, on the way to Kukuna, Scott- 
Elliot, 4721! Gold Coast: Aburi, Johnson, 1103! Southern Nigeria: Lagos, 
Punch, 61! 62! Yoruba, Willson, 79! Stirling Hill, Ansell! Quorra (Niger) River, 
Vogel, 127! 145! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 862! 1660 ! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Wadi Dela, Petherick ! Wadi Halfa, Bromfield, 73! 
Kordofan: Obeyad, Pfund, 370! Abou Haraza, Pfund, 127! Arashkol Mountain, 
Kotschy, 160! Bara, Pfund, 675! Darfur, Purdy, 19! Upper Sennar: Fazokl, 
votschy, 573 partly! Galabat: region of Matamma, Schweinfurth! Keren, 
Steudner, 629! Abyssinia: without precise locality, Schimper, 278! Roth! 
Somaliland : Harradigit, James & Thrupp! British East Africa: Baringo, John- 
son! between Mombasa and Takaunga, Whyte! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: on the road to Bembe, 20 miles from Ambriz, 
Loanda, Gossweiler, 216! 2168! Monteiro! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Tanga, Holst, 2067! 
Portuguese East Africa : between Beira and Massi Kessi, Hon. Mrs. £. Cecil, 14! 
Ngamiland : Botletle Valley, Zugard, 198 ! 
Var. viscosa, Choisy in DC, Prodr. xiii. ii. 453. Stem and leaves densely glan- 
dular hairy, more robust than in the type. Leaves ovate or subrotundate, sinuate, 
up to 1} in. long and 1 in. broad. 
Wile Land. Nubia: Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 2428! sea-coast to 
between 3000 and 4000 ft., Bent ! Erkowit Mountain, Schweinfurth, 288! Eritrea: 
Terrha Valley, near Saati, Schweinfurth § Riva, 274! Mount Zibo, near Saati, 
Schweinfurth & Riva, 535! Ethiopia, Kotschy, 81! 411! Kordofan, Kotschy, 56! 
Abyssinia, Schimper, 428! Somaliland: Adda Galla, James & Thrupp / 
5. B. Schinzii, Heimerl in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 
222. Root long, woody. Stem about 1} ft. high, densely and shortly 
hairy. Leaves in unequal pairs, varying from broadly ovate or cordate- 
rotundate below to ovate-lanceolate or long triangular above, about 14 
in. long, obtuse or subacute, entire or undulate, very finely serrate, 
thickly clothed on both surfaces with very short stiff hairs, dark green 
above, paler beneath. Flowers in 3-4-flowered heads arranged in 
