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Metcalfe’s 787 from Mangas Springs, New Mexico, is probably a slender and 
depauperate form of this variety; another plant from the same locality, 1897, 
J. G. Smith 26, is even more depauperate and has brown-dotted leaves, thus 
connecting the variety directly with B. erecta, 
8. Boerhaavia intermedia Jones, Contr. Western Bot. 10: 41. 1902. 
Specimens examined: 
TEXAS: El Paso, 1883, Jones 41738, type collection; Chenate Mountains, 
1889, Nealley 257; canyon west of Tarlinga, 1883, Havard; Presidio, 
Trelease 358a., 
Mexico: Hills near Chihuahua, 1886, Pringle. 
NEw Mexico: Organ Mountains, 1895, Wooton; Mesilla Valley, 1907, 
Standley; plains of the Rio Gila, 1880, Greene 278. 
ARIZONA: Tempe, 1901, Kearney 135; foothills of the Santa Catalina Moun- 
tains, 1881, Pringle; ? Apache Pass, Chiracahua Mountains, 1881, 
Lemmon; Tucson Mountains, 1908, Thornber 161; 7? Antelope, 1902, 
Purpus 83. 
CALIFORNIA: Southwestern part of the Colorado Desert, San Diego County, 
1890, Oreutt 2090. 
9. Boerhaavia purpurascens A. Gray, Am. Journ. Sei. Il. 15: 821, 1853. 
Specimens examined: 
NEW Mexico: Copper Mines, 1851-52, Wright 1725, type collection; Car- 
lisle, 1902, Wooton; Mogollon Mountains, 1880, Rusby 852; banks of 
the Gila, Greene; Mogollon Mountains, 1881, Rusby 7018; east fork of 
the Rio Gila, 1900, Wooton. 
ARIZONA: Apache Pass, Chiracahua Mountains, 1881, Lemmon; Fort 
Whipple, 1865, Coues & Palmer 483; Fort Huachuca, 1894, Wileox. 
Mexico: Near Chihuahua, 1887, Palmer 1582; ? Copradia, 1904, Brandegec; 
Guadalupe Canyon, Sonora, 1893, FH. C. Merton 2044. 
10. Boerhaavia paniculata L. ©. Rich. Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. 1: 105, 1792. 
Specimens examined: 
Fioripa: Eustis, 1894, Nash 974; Key West, 1874, Palmer; Punta Rossa, 
1900, Hitchcock 284; Soldiers Key, 1904, Britton 333: Eustis, 1894, 
Hitchcock; Key West, 1904, Lansing 2078; Newport, Key Largo, 1898, 
Pollard, Collins & Morris 176; Miami, 1877, Garber; Sanibel Island, 
1901, Tracy 7664. 
West INDIES: Cieneguito, Cuba, 1895, Rob Combs 104: Santiago, Cuba, 
1902, Palmer 370; Nueva Gerona, Isla de Pinos, 1904, Curtiss 359; 
Jamaica, 1892, Lloyd 1099; Martinique, Duss 2174; Guadeloupe, 1892, 
Duss 2174. 
VENEZUELA: Island of Margarita, 1901, Miller & Johnston 2038. 
NortH Carouina: “In oriente Carolina Septentrionali, locis navalibus,” 
1885, G. McCarthy 169. 
11. Boerhaavia hirsuta Willd. Phyt. 1. 1794. 
Specimens examined: 
FLorIpA: Manatee County, 1887, J. 7. Rothrock. 
West INDIES: El Cobre, Cuba, 1902, Pollard & Palmer 395; Santiago de 
las Vegas, Cuba, 1904, Wilson 1147; ? Coamo circa Salinas, Porto Rico, 
Sintenis 3293; Grand Cayman, 1891, Hitchcock; Bassin, Danish West 
Indies, 1897, Ms. J. J. Ricksecker. 
