Boerhavin NYCTAGINACE.E 14*J 



3. B. hirsuta WilhJ. Phytojr. 1 (1794): herbaceous; stem 

 ascending or diffuse, more or less puberulous and hirsute, 

 especially at the nodes ; leaves broadly ovate or subrhomboid, 

 base rounded, apex obtuse to somewhat acute, margin more or 

 less ciliate, entire or slightly lobed ; tiowers subsessile, blood-red 

 or purplish ; fruit obovoid-clavate, angles narrow, glabrous, 

 intermediate spaces covered with glandular hairs. Ghoisn torn, 

 c'lt. 451 ; Gri^ch. Joe. cit. ; Heimerl torn. cit. 620 ; TJrJt. torn. cit. 225. 

 Solanum bacciferum americanum ttc. Pluk. Aha. 349, /. 226,/. 7. 

 Valerianella folio subrotundo kc Slodua Cat. 91 ife Hist. i. 210. 



Plukenct in Herb. Sloane, xcviii. 51! Sloanc Herb. iv. 27! Massonl 

 Bancroft \ Macfadycnl McNab\ Falls Kiver, Priori March; Sea-side, 

 Dover, Metcalfe I Cinchona, 5000 ft., J. P. G70, Morrisl Hope, GOO ft., 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5936. West Indies as far south as Grenada, Central and 

 South America. 



Plant 2 ft. high. Perianth, permanent base about 1 mm. 1., limb 1*5- 

 2 mm. 1. Anthocarp 2*5-4 mm. 1. 



4. B. seandens L. Sp. PL 3 (1753) ; .somewhat shrubby, 

 glabrous ; stems erect, diffuse or climbing ; leaves cordate to 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate passing into bracts, entire or slightly 

 repand ; iiowers in umbels, with long pedicels, yellowish- or 

 whitish-green ; fruit oblong-clavate, glabrous or rough with 

 papilla?, longitudinally 10-striate, glutinous with tubercles near 

 the apex secreting a viscid fluid. Clioisy torn. cit. 454 ; Griseh. 

 loc. cit.; Jaccp Horf. Vindoh. i. '2, t. 4; Heimerl torn. cit. 621; 

 Urh. loc. cit. Valerianella alsines folio seandens Szc. Sloane 

 (Jat. 91, Hist. i. 210. Boerhaavia sarmentosa Szc. Browne Hist, 

 Jam. 123. Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Spanish Town (St. -Jago de la Vega), Sloane Herb. iv. 26, 28 ! Housfoini ! 

 Wrightl Dancer I Kingston, Pno>- ! March\ 'Rock oxt, Campbell \ Hope; 

 Gordon Town ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6194, 6977, 8426. Bahamas, West 

 Indies as far south as Antigua, Cura9ao, continental America from 

 Arizona to Peru. 



Plant to 4 ft. high. Perianth, permanent base 2-3 mm. 1., limb 3-4*5 

 mm. 1., 5 mm. across. Anthocarp 8-10 mm. 1., 1-2 mm. br. 



3. PISONIA L. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or partly alternate. 

 Flowers small, with 2-3 minute bracteoles, in clusters, in stalked, 

 paniculate, corymbiform cymes, dicecious. Perianth 5-toothed, 

 of the male flower, tubular-campanulate to funnel-shaped, of the 

 female flower, oblong-tubular. Male flower : stamens 6-10, 

 fllaments unequal, slightly connected at the base, exserted ; 

 ovary small, sterile. Female flowers : ovary with slender style 



