Boerhavia NYCTAGINACE^ 149 



3. B. hirsuta WilM. Phytogr. 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 ; flowers subsessile, blood-red 

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

 intermediate spaces covered with glandular hairs. — Ghoisy torn, 

 cit. 451 ; Griseb. loc. cit. ; Heimerl torn. cit. 620 ; Urb. torn. cit. 225. 

 Solanum bacciferum americanum &,c. Pluk. Aim. 349, t. 226, /. 7. 

 Valerianella folio subrotundo &c. Sloane Cat. 91 & Hist. i. 210. 



Plukenet in Herb. Sloane, xcviii. 51 ! Sloane Herb. iv. 27 ! Masson I 

 Bancroft ! Macfadyen ! McNab ! Falls River, Prior ! March ; Sea-side, 

 Dover, Metcalfcl Cinchona, 5000 ft., J.P. 670, Morrisl Hope, 600 ft., 

 Harris 1 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 ; flowers in umbels, with long pedicels, yellowish- or 

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

 papillae, longitudinally 10-striate, glutinous with tubercles near 

 the apex secreting a viscid fluid. — Choisy torn. cit. 454 ; Griseb. 

 loc. cit. ; Jacq. Hort. Vindob. i. 2, t. 4 ; Heimerl torn. cit. 621 ; 

 Urb. loc. cit. Valerianella alsines folio seandens <fec. Sloane 

 Cat. 91, Hist. i. 210. Boerhaavia sarmentosa kc. Browne Hist. 

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



Spanish Town (St. Jago de la Vega), Sloane Herb. iv. 26, 28 1 Houstoiin 1 

 Wright I Dancer ! Kingston, Prior ! March ! Rock Fort, Campbell ! Hope ; 

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

 Indies as far south as J^ntigua, 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., 6 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, dioecious. Perianth 5-toothed, 

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

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

 filaments unequal, slightly connected at the base, exserted ; 

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



