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A weed of roadsides and waste places tliroughont tropical and sub¬ 
tropical South-Eastern Asia. 
121. Leucas aspera Spreng., Syst., ii., 743 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. 
Ind., iv., 690. Phlomis esculenta Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii., 10. 
Ameni ; Hume I Anderut ; Alcock ! Akati ; Fleming ! Kadamum ; 
Fleming ! Kiltan ; Fleming ! 
A weed of cultivation throughout South-Eastern Asia and in the 
Mascarene Islands. 
Incompletse. 
NYCTAGINEiE. 
122. Mirabilis Jalapa Linn., Sp. PI. 177 ; Rosb., Hort. Beng. 
16 ; Watt, Diet., V., 253. The Marvel of Peru. 
Akati; cultivated, Fleming! ]\Iinikoi; cultivated, Fleming ! 
Native of America, but widely cultivated throughout tropical Asia on account 
of the supposed pm’gative properties of its root and as a garden plant. 
123. Boerhaavia repens Linn : Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv, 709. 
VAE. typica. Boerkaavia repens Linn., Sp. PI. 3. 
Akati ; Fleming! Ameni Hume ! 
A weed of fields, waysides and wasteplaces, cosmopolitan in tropical and sub¬ 
tropical coimtries. The more usual form of this species in India (var. pro- 
cumbeus Hook.f, For, Brit. Ind., iv, 709 ; Boerhaavia procumbens, Banks in 
Roxl). Flor. Ind., i, 146) does not appear to occm’ in the Laccadives ; the 
present form is that characteristic of the drier parts of India, of Beluchistan, 
Arabia and North-East Africa. 
VAE. diffusa Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv, 709. B. diffusa Linn., 
Sp. PI. 3. 
Bitrapar ; on the shore, Hume! Anderut ; on the beach, Alcock 1 Kadamum ; 
Fleming ! Minikoi; Meming I 
A littoral plant, cosmopolitan on tropical sea-shores. The sea-shore foim 
differs so markedly in appearance from the usual uiland forms and agrees so well 
with the description of vae, diffusa Hook, f., that it might be convenient to 
restrict the varietal name “ diffusa ” to it alone. It does not, however, deserve 
specific rank, for, as is pointed out in the Fora of British India, it is impossible 
by then morphological characters to draw a fine between the various forms. 
Even if recognised as a species, it could not be dealt with as B. diffusa L inn , 
since the probability is that Liimeus based his descriptions, at least in part, on 
the examination of inland specimens. 
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