216 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



S. Europe; China? 



North America: Ont. and N. Eng. to Minn. ; S. to Fla. ; 

 W. to Dak. ? Neb. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Forest district to Blue Earth Co. ; infre- 

 quent; low grounds. 



HERB. : Taylor 552, Janesville. 



XXXVI. NYCTAGINACEAE. Four-o'CIock 

 Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PL 310(1840); Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. Ill, 1 (1880); 

 Heimerl, in Engkr and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, I 6, 14 (1889). 



Genera: 15-16; tropical and warmer regions; princi- 

 pally America; rare in Australia and almost wanting in Africa. 

 Species: 160 ; principally in tropical America. 



MIEABILTS LINN. Gen. 139 (1737). 

 Admirabilis CLUS. Hist. II. 87 (1601). 

 Nyctago Juss. Gen. 90 (1789). 

 Jalapa MOENCH, Meth. 508 (1794). 

 Quamoclidioa CHOIS. Prodr. 429 n. 2 (1849?). 

 Acleisanthes A. GRAY, Brief. Char. Am. Jour. Sci. (II) XV, 



? Nyctaginea CHOIS. Mem. Gen. XII (1839). 

 Pentacophrys A. GRAY, Brief. Char. Am. Jour. Sci. (II) XV, 



( ). 



Oxybaphus L'HER. ex Vahl. Enum. II, 39 (1806). 

 Allionia LOEFFL. It. 181 (1758). 

 Calyxhymenia ORTEG. Dec. 5, t. 1 (1800). 

 Calymenia PERS. Syn. I, 36(1805). 

 Vitmannia TURRA, ex Cav. Ic. Ill, add. (1794). 

 Palavia and Bruguiera CAV. 1. c. (1794). 



Baillon, Hist. PI. IV, 18, 19; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. Ill, 3, 4; Du- 

 rand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 331; Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, I b, 24, 25: 

 (Heimerl); Schenck, Palaeophyt. 491. 



Living species: 30; mostly W. and S. W. N". America, 

 Central America and Chile; 14-15, N. America and Mexico. E. 

 Sts., Canada, and S. Sts., 3; 1 sp. in Himalayas. 



Fossil species: Doubtful; 1-2 Gen. Nyctaginaceae in 

 Oligocene and Miocene of W. N. America and Bohemia. 



Mirabilis angustifolius (NUTT.), 



Calymenia angustifolia NUTT. Fras. Cat. (1813). 

 Allionia linearis PURSH, Fl. Am. I, 729 ^18 14). 

 Oxybaphus angustifolius SWEET, Hort. Brit. 567 (1827). 

 Calyxhymenia pilosa ENGELM. and GRAY, PI. Lindh. 293 (1845). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 425; Webb., Fl. Neb. 114; Coult., 

 Fl. Colo. 302; Upham, Fl, Minn. 116; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 395; Wats., King. 

 Exp. 284, 475; Roth., Wheel. Ex. 226; Cov., Fl. Ark. 214. 



