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MONOCHLAMYDEAE 



IVIirabilis 



NYCTAGINEAE. 



MiRABiLis, Linn. 



in. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 2. 



_ /ZZ.— Rheede, Hort. Mai. x. t. ro; ±tumpt, Amb. v. t. 89- 

 J31ackwell, Herb. ii. t. 404 (Jalapium) ; Plenck Ic t 137- 

 JBatsch, Analyses Fl. PI. Gen. t. 20 ; Schk. Handb. t. 41 • Bot' 

 Mag. t. 371; Lam. Encyel. t. 105; Drapiez, Herb. Amat. de 

 Fleurs, vui. t. 540; Spach Suites (Hist. Nat. des Vegetaux) 

 t. 146; Ann. Sc. Nat. Pari - ... - ^ f 



anatom.) ; Martins. Fl. Bras 



16, f. 7 (seedling, 



Vernac. names.~Gul A'bbas (Persia, Dymodi) ; Shab-el- 

 Jeila (Arabic, Z)i/moci-) ;— Nyctage Faux Jalap {Planchou & 

 Collin), Marvel of Peru, Belle de Nuit, Four o'clock plant 



Lagos (Punch. No. 19, 1900; Rowland, 1890, Herb. Kew) ■ 

 widely distributed in Tropical Africa and \ 

 Old World. Native of Peru. 



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various medicinal purposes in India ; the leaves are also used 

 .as a vegetable ; the powdered seeds are used as a cosmetic in 

 Japan and sometimes to adulterate h\ao\z r^^nr^^r (T>;.^.^ .,.• — .„\ 



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.(Diet. Econ. Prod. India; Dymock, Pharmacog. Indica, .... 

 p. 132), The root was formerly used as Jalap (Ipomoea puma) • 

 Loudon (Encyl. PI. (1829) p. 118) states that "the powder of 

 these roots, washed, scraped and dried, is one of the substances 

 which form the Jalap of the druggists." Used as a remedy for 

 dropsy (Planchon & ColHn, Drog. Simpl. i. p. 491). The leaves 

 with other herbs soaked in cold water are used for a similar 

 purpose in Lagos (Punch, Herb. Kew). 



A crimson dye is obtained by steeping the flowers in water 

 used for colouring cakes and jelHes made from seaweed &c ' 



ornamental 



Kew 



, , , ^ P^^nt 2-4 ft. high ; perennial ; may be propa- 



igated by seeds or cH\asion of the tuberous roots, and grows 

 ireely. ^ The flowers— red, white, yellow or variegated— last only 

 for a night, opening in the evening (hence the name, Four o'clock 

 plant) and withering the next morning. 



i?e/.— " Mirahilis Jalapa," in Diet. Econ. Prod. India Watt 



V. pt. 1, 1891, pp. 253-254. Mirabilis Jalapa, in Pharmaco- 



graphia Indica, Dymock, Warden & Hooper, iii. pp. 132-135 



BOERHAAVIA, Yaill. 



Boerhaavia adscendens, Willd. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect, i, 



p. 4. 



Vernac. nawie^.— Babba juji (N. Nigeria, Dalziel) ; Azuic^wa oi 

 Azaigwe (Awka, Agolo, S. Nigeria, Thomas) ; Embate, Bate-bate, 



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