C. NTCTAGINACE.i:. 481 



broader than long, broadly ovate or suborbicular (rarely oblong), obtuse, 

 mucronate, usually glabrous with sinuate margins, base usually coi'date ; 

 petioles -^-f in. long, stout. Elowers in long-pedunculate racemes 

 arranged in few-flowered distant whorls along a slender rhachis ; 

 braeteoles small, ovate-oblong, acute, deciduous ; pedicels very variable 

 in length, -l— | in. long, slender. Perianth ^ in. long, usually white ; 

 ovarial part of tube -^ in. long, much narrowed above the ovule, the 

 petaloid portion funnel-shaped ; lobes of the limb 2-fid. Stamens not 

 much exserted. Eruit ^ in. long, clavate, furnished with large semi- 

 globose glands round the crown. El. B. I. v. 4, p. 710 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 363. Boerliaavia stellata, Wight, 

 Icon. t. 875 ; Dalz. & Gribs. p. 213. B. scandens. Grab. Cat. p. 107 

 (not of Linn.). — Flowers : Aug.-Dec. Veeis". Sdtura. 



Stocks without locality in Herb. Kew. ! ; DaUell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! 

 KoNKAN : Woodroiv\ Deccan: Woodrow ; Deccan hills, Woodroiv,S\; Dhavaleshvar 

 hill near Rajvadi Railway Station, S. M. Railway, Kanitkar\ Gujarat: Kathiawar, 

 JVoodrow, Dalzell cf Gihson. Sind : D(d2cll,15\, Stocks, b\\ — Distrib. India (Panjab, 

 W. Peninsula) ; Afghanistan, Beluchistau, and westward to Syria and Tropical Africa. 



4. Boerhaavia fruticosa, Dnlz. in Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bo. Fl. (1861) 

 p. 213. !Shrubby, erect, the whole plant clothed with viscid glandular 

 hairs; stem near the base Ig in. in diam. or more; branches stout, 

 terete. Leaves 1^-2 by f-l| in., ovate or deltoid-ovate, acuminate, 

 glandular-hairy on both sides, base usually truncate ; petioles ^-g in. 

 long, stout, glandular-hairy. Flowers in umbels which are visually 

 solitary on the top of the peduncle, but sometimes superposed ; peduncles 

 |-lf in. long, stout, glandular-hairy ; braeteoles 4- in. long, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute ; pedicels \~^ in. long, 6-8 in an umbel, stout, glandular- 

 hairy. Perianth rather more than | in. long, pink ; ovarial portion of 

 the tube ^ in. long. Stamens 3 (Dalzell), much exserted. Fruit i in. 

 long, clavate, ribbed, furnished with a row of glands along the ribs. 



Dalzell in his description (I. c.) describes the pedicels as nearly as long 

 as the peduncle, which is an error. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 710 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 363, 



Rare. Konkan : S/ocks I Shivnar Fort and Ghats to the east of Bombay, Dalzell ^• 

 Gihson. Sir J. Hooker (Fl. B. 1. 1. c.) is of opinion that this is probably an African 

 species. 



5. Boerhaavia elegans, Choisy, in DO. Proir. v. 13, part 2 (1849) 

 p. 453. Shrubby below ; rootstock woody, much divided ; branches 

 erect, 1-2 ft. long, glabrous, twiggy, terete. Leaves subsessile, curiously 

 mottled with white when dry, 1-lf by i-| in., linear-oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, often mucrontilate, fleshy, rugose and canescent 

 beneath ; petioles 0— i- in. long. Flowers in very large lax much-branched 

 trichotomous glabrous leafless panicles, sometimes reaching 10 by 8 in.; 

 branches of the panicle slender ; bracts at the forks y^ in long, 

 lanceolate, acute ; braeteoles beneath the flowers (when present) about 

 J^ in. long, lanceolate, acute, deciduous; pedicels f-l| in. long, very 

 slender. Fruit i— ^ in. long, clavate, with 5 obtuse strong quite glabrous 

 ribs, minutely hairv between the ribs. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 710 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 363. 



In the Bombay Presidency confined to Sind. Sind : >S/oc/^\S 814 ! — Distrib. India 

 (Panjab) ; Beluchistan, S. Arabia. 



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