Boerhaavia. | CXIV. NYCTAGINEE,. (J. D. Hooker.) 709 
* Flowers capitate. 
l. B. repens, Linn.; diffusely branched, leaves linear ovate oblong 
or rounded obtuse or acute, base rounded or cordate, heads small in terminal 
or axillary panicles, flowers minute capitate, fruit } in. long shortly clavate 
5-ribbed viscid all over, top rounded. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1045; Dalz. & 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 213. 
Throughout INDIA; from the Panjab to Assam and south to Travancore and 
Singapore; ascends in the hot Himalayan valleys to 7000 ft. CEYLON.—DISTRIB. 
Tropical and subtropical Asia, Africa and America. 
foot fusiform, very stout; rootstock woody ; branches 6-24 in., glabrous or 
pubescent. Leaves j-2 in., thick, usually white beneath ; petiole as long as the blade 
or shorter. Panicle with very slender branches. Perianth red. Stamens 2-8.— 
Ihave refrained from quoting any but Indian authorities for this plant, the whole 
genus appearing to me to be in a state of utter confusion. B. ascendens, Willd.; 
hirsuta, Willd., and viscosa, Lag., are probably the same as this. I am farther 
bud to draw any line between the following forms, two of which are characterized 
y Boissier. 
B. repens proper ; small, branches 6-10 iu. not very stout appressedly pubescent, 
leaves small ovate or oblong often acute rarely cordate green above white beneath.— 
B. repens, Delile Fl. Eg. t. 8, f. 1. 
VaR. procumbens; branches 2-3 ft. usually slender glabrous, leaves larger broader 
often rounded white beneath, inflorescence panicled. B. procumbens, Herb. Banks 
in Roxb. Fl. Ind.i.146; Wight Ic. t. 874; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 167. . 
Var. diffusa; more robust, branches long stout glabrous pubescent or viscous, 
leaves 1-2 in. ovate obtuse or acute usually cordate green beneath, inflorescence chiefly 
axillary. B. diffusa, Linn. Sp. Pl. 3; Wall. Cat. 6770; Boiss. l.c. 1045. B. repanda, 
Wall. Cat. 6769, in part.—Rheede Hort. Mal. vii. t. 56. 
2. E. crispa, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 6771; stout, erect, scaberulously 
pubescent, stem subsimple, leaves shortly petioled oblong or ovate-oblong 
rounded at both ends coriaceous scabrid on both surfaces, nerves very 
numerous and strong beneath, flowers few capitate in a laxly branched 
panicle with capillary peduncles, fruit à in. long clavate 5-ribbed glandular, 
top rounded. B. rugosa, Rottler mss. 
Deccan PENINSULA; Heyne. . . . 
A robust species. Leaves 1-1} in., very thick and hard, margin crisped ; petiole 
stout, 3-1 in. Panicles with decurved branches. — The specimens of this very distinct- 
looking plant are in fruit only. 
** Flowers umbelled or whorled. 
3. E. repanda, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 22; subscandent, branches long 
pale, leaves triangular-ovate or -cordate acute or acuminate repand-sinnate, 
umbels long-peduncled axillary and terminal few-fld., pedicels long a er, 
fruit 4 in. long slender glandular. Chois. in DC. Prodr. xii. 1, 455; ; aH 
Cat. 6769, excl. part of B; Wight Ic. t. 1766; Dalz. & Gibs, Bom’ FI. 
213. B. umbellata, Wight mss. Valeriana chinensis, Burm. Fl. Ind. 15, 
t. 6, f. 3. 
i i th, &c. The 
Upper Ganaetic Prarw and ROoHILKUND, Wallich, Edgewort , 
Coxocax, Stocks, MYSORE, TRAVANCORE and the Carnatic, Wight, &c. Pav and 
Burma, Wallich.—DistriB. Beluchistan. . 
Branches diffuse, subscandent, glabrous or pubescent, 6 ft. long. Leaves 1-3 in., 
se usually truncate or cordate; petiole slender, 3-1 in. Podunoles 175 in., yery 
slender, 2-6 fid. ; pedicels 1-1 in., capillary. Perianth pink, tube ł in. ong A e 
din. diam. Stamens far exserted. Fruit slightly clavate, covered with large glan 
