978 C. NYCTAGINEX. EV 
ong as e r than the perianth. Fruitin e of the 
perianth o aen glandular-muricate when dry, becoming en- 
veloped in «s n hot water, from 1 to nearly 2 lines long.—B 
mutabilis, Br , Chois. in "pc. Prod. xii. ii. 455, (there placed 
in a wrong division); i Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 622; F. Muell. PI. Viet. 
ii. t. 67, (the insertion of the stamens and st Wiene incorrect); ; B. pubescens, 
R. Br. Prod. 4292; B. procumbens, Roxb. ; 
N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller ; falands of üi Gulf of Caral E 
Brown; (glabrous, glandular- pubescent and very ines omen Ha rieties), Henne; 
Adams Bay, Hulls; Port Essington, Armstrong; Port Darwin, A 
Soni, Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Port Molle and Isles of "Que Flattery, 
ivray ; Howick's group, F.. Mueller; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; brie 
about Rook bait ags Dallachy and others; Nerkool and Amity Creeks, &c., Bowma ae 
ick ; on the Maranoa, Mitchell (some of f the specimens — hirsute, 
the leaves white Akmann ; Armadillo, Barton ; Curriwi: lighie, 
N. S. Wale udgee, Woolls; from pe Darling river to the Perder Range, 
Victorian and other Expeditions ; New En and, eu Stuart 
Vict 
icd river, Mount t Hope, Mie , 
S. Australia. Spencer's Gulf, = Brown ; Winders Range, Taberton, F. Mueller 
be cx s Creek, Howitt’ s Erpeditio old- 
us Swan river, AA. Preiss, n. 2389 ; Murchison river, 
field ; Sont. Walcott, Harper. 
The glabrous and hirsute states P enerally ! found i in the same rin 
however, by far t oe were hie å species is a common W 
regions of Asia id Afri 
the former, 
n the warmer 
repanda, Willd.; Chois. in D C. Prod. xiii. ii, 499. A stole 
and coarser plant than B. um isually glabrous and spre de 
Leaves petiolate, cordate-ovate or lanceolate, usually acuminate, - 
argins undulate, rather thick, often above 1 in. long, bat fe: 
times small. Flowers pedicellate in umbels o axillary or ter 
or more Mel dens in the sam umbel, not so slender as dular 
difusa. Lower portion of the perianth under 1 line long, Ji 3 t04 
muricate as in B. diffusa, upper deciduous portion funnel- d te sum 
lines long, the slender part of the tube as long as the c a pos consider 
mit. Stamens usually 2 or 3, sometimes 4, exserted. 
ably longer than in B. diffusa.—Wight, Ic. t. 1766. 
Queensland. Lady Elliott’s Island, Capt. Robertson. 
