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accrescent base clavate, 2 lines long, with large globose stalked glands 
around the apex. Stamens 2, slightly exserted. 
Fruit -g- inch long, clavate, furnished with large glands round the 
crown. 
“ This is an exceedingly variable plant ; but even in its most 
aberrant forms the characters of the umbellate inflorescence, exserted 
stamens and style, and the elongated, clavate, ecostate, glandular fruit, 
can always be recognized,” T. Anderson. 
Flowers: — From December to March (Schweinf.), January 1880 
(Balfour), March 1878 (Perry). 
Fruits : — March 1 8 7 8 ( Perry) . 
Locality : — Near Maala and the Flagstaff (Defl.) ; Shum Shum 
Range (Schweinf., Busse); great valley between Steamer Point and town 
(Marchesetti) ; without locality (Hook., Anders., Birdw., Perry, Balfour). 
Distribution : — Senegambia, Morocco, Egypt, Sinai, Nubia, Abyssinia, 
Eritrea, Central and S. Arabia, Sind, Western Punjab, Salt Range, 
Kathiwar, Gujarat, Konkan, Mysore, Travancore, Carnatic. 
2 . Boerhaavia elegaus Chois, in DC Prodr. XIII, 2, p. 458 ; 
Boiss. FI. Or. IY, 1045 ; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 35 ; 
Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. IV, 710. 
Boerhaavia rubicunda Steud. Norn, ed. 2, I, 218. 
Boerhaavia repens var. elegans Aschers. & Schweinf. in Schweinf. 
Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 169. 
Boerhaavia Marlothii Heimerl in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. X, 10. 
Description: — Shrubby below ; rootstock woody, much divided; 
branches erect, 1—2 feet long, glabrous, twiggy, terete. Leaves subsessile, 
curiously mottled with white when dry, 1 — If by ^ — f inch, linear-oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, often mucronulate, fleshy, rugose, and 
canescent beneath ; petioles 0 — J inch long. 
Flowers solitary, rarely in pairs in very large lax much-branched 
trichotomous glabrous leafless panicles, sometimes reaching 10 by 
8 inches ; branches of the panicle slender ; bracts at the forks inch 
long, lanceolate, acute ; bracteoles beneath the flowers (when present) 
about gV inch long, lanceolate, acute, deciduous ; pedicels J — 1J inches 
long, very slender. Upper portion of the perianth very small, 
campanulate ; accrescent base clavate, J— ^ inch long, pentagonal, viscid 
or glabrate. Stamens 2. 
Fruit J — ^ inch long, clavate, with 5 obtuse strong quiteglabrous ribs, 
minutely hairy between the ribs. 
Fruits : — November (Schweinf.). 
