710 CXIV. NYOTAGINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Boerhaavia. 
obscurely ribbed.— This closely resembles the American B. scandens, but the flower 
is much larger and the stamens are far exserted. 
4. B. verticillata, Poir. Dict. v. 56; branches long pale, leaves 
broadly ovate or rounded rarely oblong obtuse sinuate, umbels long- 
peduncled axillary and panicled few-fld. often superposed, pedicels long 
slender, fruit 4 in. clavate with large semi-globose glands round the crown. 
Chois. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 454; Wall. Cat. 6772; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 1v. 
1044. B. stellata, Wight Ic. t. 875; Chois. l. c.; Dalz. 4 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 
213. B. scandens, Gibs. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 167; Wall. Cat. 6773. 
WESTERN PANJAB; Salt range, Mt. Tilla, Aitchison. The CoNCAN, KATTYWAR 
and SCINDE, Dalzell, Stocks, &c. GoosERAT, Gibson. MYSORE, at Hyderabad, 
Heyne. TRAVANCORE and the Carnatic, Wight.—Drisrris. Affghanistan, Belu- 
chistan, and westward to Syria and Tropical Africa. 
Habit, foliage and inflorescence much as in B. repanda, but leaves usually obtuse ; 
flowers smaller, white or pink, and fruit very different. 
5. B. fruticosa, Dalz. in Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 913; “erect, 
shrubby, viscidly tomentose, leaves ovate or triangular acuminate much 
wrinkled beneath, base truncate, peduncles axillary, pedicels slender, 
flowers inbelled small pink, fruit linear-oblong sulcate pubescent, ribs 
ubercled.” 
The Concan ; Ghats east of Bombay and Sewnere forts, Dalzell. 
Stem 2 in. diam.; branches very stout. Leaves 1-2 in. ; petiole short, stout. 
Peduncles as long as the leaves, stout ; umbels sometimes superposed ; pedicels stout, 
4-3 in. Perianth in. diam. Fruit not seen.—Probably an African species. It 
resembles B. grandiflora, A. Rich, a good deal. 
*** Flowers in di-tri-chotomous cymes ; pedicels very long, capillary. 
6. B. elegans, Chois. in DC. Prodr. xiii.2,453; shrubby below, branches 
erect, leaves sessile linear oblong or oblong-lanceolate obtuse or apiculate 
fleshy pruinose, flowers in a very large excessively di-tri-chotomously bran ched 
panicle with very long capillary peduncles and pedicels, fruit jj in. long 
narrowly ellipsoid or clavate strongly ribbed perfectly smooth. Boiss. Fl. 
Orient. iv. 1045. 
The PANJAB; at Sandal bar, Edgeworth. SciNDE, Stocks.—D1sTRIB. Belu- 
chistan, S. Arabia. 
Stock woody, much divided; branches erect, 1-2 ft., glaucous below. Leaves 
few, 1-1} in., curiously mottled with white when dry. Peduncles or branches of 
panicle divaricate; pedicels 1-2 in.; bracts (if present) setaceous. Flowers minute. 
Fruit narrowed at both ends, minutely hairy between the ribs.—Schimper's No. 7 i 
from Arabia, which Steudel has named B. rubicunda, and which is referred here by 
Choisy and Boissier, is perhaps a different species, having broader petioled leaves (of 
the same texture however) and fruit twice as large; it is No. 159 of Fischer's, and 
No. 98 of Schwenfurth’s Arabian collections, —Seeds eaten, Edgew. 
3. PISONIA, Linz. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes spinous. Leaves opposite or alternate. 
Flowers in corymbose cymes, not involucrate. Flowers usually dicecious, 
2-3-bracteolate. Perianth 5-10-toothed, of male flower funnel-shaped, of 
female tubular. Stamens 6-10, exserted. Ovary sessile, oblique;. stigma 
capitate or feathery. Fruit large or small. Cotyledons crumpled, enclosing 
a scanty soft albumen.—Species 60, all tropical, one only African. 
