Boerhaavia.] civ. nyctagine.e (baker and avright). 5 



Kofschi/, 88 ! 172 ! 358 ! Kordofan : Abu-Gei-ad, Kofsoh^, 35 ! Galabat : region 

 of Matamma, Schweinfurth, 2430! Bara, Pfund, 676! Eritrea: Ras Madour, 

 near Massowa, Schweinfurth Sf JRiva, 29 1 Mount Ghedem, near Massowa, 

 Schweinfurtk ^ Siva, 91 ! near Saati, Sckioeinfurth df Eiva, 342 ! Abyssinia : by 

 the Tacazze River, near Gursarfa, Sckimper, 2221 1 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; in sandy rocky parts of the 

 Praesidium, &c., Welwitsch, 5385 ! Jcolo e Reiigo ; in dried-up pools at the River 

 Rengo, Welivitsch^ 5387! around Lagoa de Quilonde, Welivitsch^ 5388! Loanda; 

 near Penedo, Welwitsch, 5389 ! and between Penedo and Concei^ao, Welwitsch, 

 5390 ! and without precise locality, Gossweiler, 215 ! 215b I 



Var. diffusa. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 709, Stems usually several from a 

 woody rootstock, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves ovate or ovate-rotundate, obtuse, 

 sinuate, usually about 1 in. long and slightly less in breadth, usually pubescent or 

 puberulous on both surfaces, pale green beneath. Inflorescence and flowers as in 

 the type. Fruit 1^ lin. long, clavate, strongly 5-rihbed, less glandular between the 

 ribs than in the type. — B. diffusa^ Linn, FI. Zeyl. 4 and Sp. PI. ed. 1,3; Choisy in 

 DC, Prodr. xiii, ii. 452; F. Muell. Key Vict. PI. 169, t. 44. B. hirsuta, Willd. 

 Phytogr. 1. B. procumhens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 1, 148; Wight, Ic. t. 874.— raZw- 

 Dama, Rheede, Hort. Malab. vii. 105, t. 56. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : Richard Toll, Dollinger, 24 ! Sierra Leone : 

 N.E. from Sierra Leone, Garrett ! Scarcies Valley, on the way to Kukuna, Scott- 

 Elliot, 4721 ! Gold Coast : Aburi, Johnson, 1103 I Southern Nigeria : Lagos, 

 Ftinch, 61 ! 62! Yoruba, Millson, 79! Stirling Hill, Ansell! Quorra (Niger) River, 

 Vogel, 127 ! 145 ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 862! 1660 I 



Wile Z.and. Nubia: Wadi Dels, Petherick ! Wadi Haifa, Bromfield, 73! 

 Kordofan : Obeyad, Pfund, 370 ! Abou Haraza, Pfund, 127 ! Arashkol Mountain, 

 Kotschy, 160 ! Rara, Pfund, 675 ! Darfur, Purdi/, 19 ! Upper Seiniar : Fazokl, 

 Kotschy, 573 partly I Galabat: region of Matamma, Schweinfurth! Keren, 

 Steudner, 629! Abyssinia: without precise locality, Schimper, 278! Roth! 

 Somaliland : Harradigit, James d^ Tlirupp ! British East Africa: Baringo, John- 

 son ! between Monlbasa and Takaunga, Whyte ! 



£ower Guinea. Angola : on the road to Rembe, 20 miles from Ambriz, 

 Loanda, Gossweiler, 216 ! 216b ! Monteiro ! 



nXozamb. Slst. German East Africa : Usambara ; Tanga, Hoist, 2067 ! 

 Portuguese East Africa : between Reira and Massi Kessi, Hon. Mrs. E. Cecil, 14 ! 

 Ngamiland : Rotletle A'alley, Luqard, 198 ! 



Var, viscosa, Choisy in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 453. Stem and leaves densely glan- 

 dular hairy, more robust than in the type. Leaves ovate or subi otundate, sinuate, 

 up to ]| in. long and 1 in. broad. 



Xrile Ziand. Nubia: Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 2428! sea-coast to 

 between 3000 and 4000 ft., Beiit ! Erkowit Mountain, Schweinfurth, 288 ! Eritrea : 

 Terrlia Valley, near Saati, Schweinfurth if Pica, 274 ! Mount Zibo, near Saati, 

 Schweinfurth Sf Pica, 535 ! Ethiopia, Kotschy, 81 ! 411 ! Kordofan, Kotschy, 56 ! 

 Abyssinia, Scltimper, 428! Somaliland: Adda L\-a\\?i, James Sf Thrupp / 



5. B. Schinziiy Ileimerl in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 

 222. Koot long, woody. Stem about H ft. high, densely and shortly 

 hairy. Leaves in unequal pairs, varying from broadly ovate or cordate- 

 rotundate below to ovate-lanceolate or long triangular above, about 1^ 

 in. long, obtuse or subacute, entire or undulate, very finely serrate, 

 thickly clothed on both surfaces with very short stifl' hairs, dark green 

 above, paler beneath. Flowers in o-4-llowered heads arranged in 



