56 !? — - ... 
Local end rare on damp, open ground below 1500 ft.; erect or ascend- 
ing, to 1 ft. Flower light blue. Flowers Aug, -Oct, The whole plant is 
very viscid, so that it id difficult to get good specimens. 
The specimen with a large root is from Fonda, 150 ft. Sept,. 24; the 
others from Escalera de los Indios, 800 ft, Aug, 21, 
Full set, mostly poor. Occurs near Qnaca, 
564,. Ocimum micranthum Willd, (is this 564 ?) 
A small shrub, generally about 1 ft. high. Common in dry forest clearing 
and open lends below 5000 ft. Flowers more or less through the year, Spee- 
imen is from Fonda, 150 ft, Aug,. 
Full set; mighty be improved . 
565 Erect, branching, to 5 or 6 ft. Local end rather rare in clearings 
below 500 ft, (not observed above that level) Flowers Aug,. -Oct, Specimens 
collected near Bonda, 150 ft, Oct, 6 Scsamum ludicum L. #565 
24 specimens; some not very good, 
566 Beloperone Ce rthaginens is Mees,. 
Suffruticose(or herbaceous) erect, 2-2 1- ft. Common in shady end somewhet 
damp places of the dry forest region, “below 1500 ft. Flowers Oct, -Dec, 
rosy,. I found it flowering on irrigated land at Cienaga, need* sea. Sept., 
7, The largest specimen is from Bonda, 150 ft, Oct, the other from Cien- 
e.ga. Sept, 7, Full set. Poor, 
567 (not named) 
fvar. of 579 ?) A shrub, 5-6 ft. ilooa.1 end rather rare in the dry forest r 
region, below 1000 ft, generally in open ravines. Flowers Sept. -Dec,, 
scarlet. Specimens are from en open ravine 5 miles Worth of Bohde , about 
100 ft. Oct, ,22. This shrub hen quite a different e.ppearence from Mo 
579, end the distinction of calyx, downiness etc, appear at first sight, 
quite obvious; but some of my specimens show a tendency to connect the b 
two,. Full set, good., 
568, Personsia strigulosa (B.B.X.) TSusby 
Erect, 1-2 ft. Flower rosy. A common weed-*&-±n-4peH T -g*'ewing — grassy- 
on open grassy hillsides, clearings etc,, below 5000 ft. Blossoms Mey-Jsr?, 
end probably more or less throughout the yeer, Specimens are from near 
Masinga, 250 ft, Aug,. Full set. Too sme.ll end many are poor,. 
569 ( not named) 
Diffuse (erect when small) to 2 ft. Local in clearings end forest, on d 
damp ground, belowlCDOO ft. Flowers July-Nov. red. Specimens were col- 
lected near Bonda, 150 ft. Oct, 15, Fy Full set, 
570 C is bus sicyoides L. -1519 r 2724 
h. trailing and .climbing herb, to 6 ft,. Thickets on demp ground near 
Mematoca, 100 ft. Aug, 12 specimens, scent, 
5 73r -Boerbaavia -maxima -££p|> -boerheav ia, 
571 B oerheavie. scendens L, 
A diffuse, semiscendent herb, 5-6 ft. Common in thickets am 
demp^ ground near the sea. Flowers greenish-yellow. Specimens are from 
Santa Marta, Sept,. 15.. Full set, 
572 iLellstroemia maxima (L,.L T.et Cf. 
Trailing, 1-2 ft, A common weed in clearings end waste places below 
2500 ft. Flowers more or less through the -year, pale yellowish varyii g 
to deeper yellow. Specimen is from Bonda, 150 ft, Mov, Full set. 
