Boerhaavia.] civ. NYCEAGiNEiE (baker and weight). 7 



pedicels short ; bracteoles minute. Upper part of the perianth 3-4 lin. 

 long, funnel-shaped ; lower accrescent part clavate, 3-4 iin. long, not dis- 

 tinctly 5-angled, with large globose glands near the apex. — Aschers. <fe 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 166 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 883. 

 B. dichotoma, Yahl, Enum. i. 290 ; Choisy in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 454 ; 

 Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 168. B. excelsa, Willd. 

 Enum. 50. B. capitata^ Schweinf. in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 209. Valeriana scandena, Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. 12. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Leprieur ! Portudal, Dollinger, 44 



STile ILand. Sudan : Sennar ; Roseires, Broun ! 



Ziower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; Ht Cacarambola, Welwitsch, 5396 I 

 Loanda ; near the convent of Santo Jose, Welwitsch^ 5379 I at Praia de Zamba 

 Grande, Welwitsch, 5394 ! hilly places above Penedo, near Bon Vista, Welwitsch! 

 5396 ! coast region at Penedo, Welwitsch, 5384 ! and without precise locality 

 Qossweilerj 217 ! 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Usambara ; Lutindi, Hoist, 3417 

 Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique Island, Scott ! Rhodesia : Gwelo, Gardner^ 

 20! 



Also in North Africa, Spain and Arabia. Only those specimens which have 

 been seen are quoted. 



9. B. pentandra, Burch. Trav. i. 432. Stem long, procumbent, 

 glabrous or pubescent; branches erect. Leaves distinctly petioled, 

 large, cordate-ovate, obtuse or acute, finely serrate. Whorls forming a 

 large long panicle above the leaves, both terminal and lateral ; pedicels 

 J-^ in. long ; bracts lanceolate, larger than in the other species. Upper 

 portion of the perianth ^—^ in. long, funnel-shaped ; limb J-^ in. in 

 diam. Stamens 3, much exserted. Persistent base of perianth accres- 

 cent, clavate, |— J in. long, with many globose glands at the top, not 

 distinctly pentagonal. — Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. App. iii. 67 ; 

 Heimerl in Engl. Jahrb. x. 9. B. Burchellii, Choisy in DO. Prodr. 

 xiii. ii. 455. B, grandiflora^ A. Eich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii 209 ; Oliv. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 142. B. plumbaginea, var. grandiflora^ Aschers. 

 & Schweinf. in Schweinf. Beitr. FJ. Aethiop. 1G6 ; Schweinf. in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 167. B. dichotoma, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. 

 Fl. Abyss, ii. 209, not of Yahl. 



Upper Oulnea. Senegambia : Mbidjem, Thierry, IW 



M"lle Iband. Nubia : Soturba Mountains, Schioeinfurth, 2427 ! Erkowit 

 Mountain, near Suakin, Schweinfurth, 272 ! Hor Tamanib, near Suakin, Lord ! 

 Eritrea : near Acrur, 6200 ft., Schweinfurth ^ Riva, 734 ! 1123 I Keren, Steudner, 

 681! Sudan, jBroMw, 408 ! Abyssinia: Somak Efat, i2oM, 125 ! Tigre; between 

 Mai Gouagoua and Debni Sina, Quart in- Dillon S^ Petit, 209 ! Mount Sholoda, 

 Schimper, 48 ! by the River Tacazze near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 1719 ! near 

 Gursarfa, 3000 ft., Schimper, 2309 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 761 1 

 by the White Nile, 12° 10' N., Schweinfurth, 1053 I Blue Nile, Muriel, S 28 ! 

 Soraaliland : Sheik Pass, Thomson, 62 ! and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort 

 Phillips ! Miss Edith Cole I Drake-Brockman, 363 ! 364 ! 365 I 366 ! Appleton ! 

 Uganda: Wimi Valley in Ruwenzori district, Scott-Elliot, 7943! Jinga, Busoga, 



