148 FLORA OF .JAMAICA Boerhavia 



Stamens 2 (rarely 3) in Jamaican species, filaments connate at 

 the base. Ovary narrowed to the base ; style with peltate 

 stigma. Anthocarp small, ribbed. Seed adhering' to the 

 pericarp. Embryo bent on itself. Cotyledons large, flat, folded 

 over the small endosperm at the base of the seed. Hog Weed. 

 Species about 30, widely dispersed through the warmer 

 regions of the world. 



Flowers not more than 3 mm. 1., sessile or subsessile in 

 panicles. 



Flowers rose-coloured. Seed-vessel glabrous 1. B. erccta. 



Flowers blood-red. Seed vessel with glandular hairs. 



Seed-vessel oblong-clavate, 4-6 mm. 1 2. B. panicidata. 



Seed-vessel obovoid-clavate, 2*5-4 mm. 1 3. B. Jiirsiita. 



Flowers 5-7 mm. 1., umbellate on a long peduncle 4. B. scandens. 



1. B. ereeta L. Sp. PI. 3 (1753) ; herbaceous, stem glabrate 

 or sparsely puberulous, not glutinous ; leaves OA'ate undulate to 

 lanceolate, apex acute, generally marked with reddish dots, 

 whitish underneath ; flowers rose-coloured, subsessile or shortly 

 stalked ; fruit club-shaped, glabrous, apex very blunt, angles 

 broad, furrows narrow. Wright Mem. 246 ; CJioisy in DC. Prodr. 

 iciii. pt. 2, 450 ; Griseb. FL Br. W. Ind. 69 ; Heimerl in Engl. 

 Bof. Jahrh. xxi. 617 & in Engl.-Prantl Nat. Pflzfam. Hi. pt. 1 h. 

 22 f. 7 B-D. ; Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 224. Type in Herb. Linn. 

 (Fig. 50.) 



Broione ! Wright ! Bancroft ! Macfadycn ! McNah ! Parnell ! Spanish 

 To\\Ti, Prioj- ! a weed, Hope, Harris ! FL Jam. 6777, 6799, 6807, 6853. 

 Bermuda, Cayman, Bahamas, W. Indies, continental America. 



Plant ^-2 or 3 ft. high. Perianth, permanent base glabrous, 1 mm. L, 

 limb about 2 mm. 1. and br. Antlwcarp 3-4 mm. 1. 



2. B. panieulata L.C. Picli. in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. i. 105 

 (1792) ; herbaceous; stem often decumbent at the base, glabrate 

 or often puberulous or pubescent, especially at the nodes, here 

 and there glutinous ; leaves elliptical to roundish, apex obtuse, 

 margin more or less ciliate, lighter-coloured beneath ; flowers 

 blood-red or purplish, sessile ; fruit, oblong-clavate, angles narrow, 

 with glandular hairs. CJioisy Joe. cit. ; Griseh. Joe. eit. ; SeJimidt 

 in Fl. Bras. xiv. pt. 2, 369, t. 86 ; Heimerl in EngJ. Bot. 

 Jalirh. xxi. 619 ; Urh. loc. cit. B. diffusa Sic. Ohs. Bot. 10 

 (1791) (non L.) ; Wriglit Mem. 246. 



Sloane Herb. iv. ante 26 ! Macfadyen ; Wilson ! Lane ! Oersted ; 

 Marchl Ball\ a weed, Hope, 600 ft., Harris \ near Casfcleton, 400 ft., 

 Thompson\ Fl. Jam. 6685, 6805, 7960. Bahamas, West Indies, Central 

 and South America. 



Plant 1^-3 ft. high. Perianth, permanent base 1-1-5 mm. L, limb 

 about 1 mm. 1. and br. Anthocarp 4-6 mm. 1, 



