Commicarpus scandens (L.) Standl.

Commicarpus scandens (L.) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb
12: 373. 1909.
Boerhaavia scandens L. Sp. PI. 3. 1753.
Boerhaavia Grahami A. Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. II. 15: 323. 1853.
Plants decumbent or usually clambering over shrubs, fruticose or suffrutescent below, much branched, the branches slender, pale-green, glabrous, or obscurely puberulent about the nodes; petioles slender, 1-2 cm. long; leaf -blades broadly cordate-ovate to ovate-deltoid or rarely rhombic-orbicular, 1.5-6.5 cm. long, 1-4.5 cm. wide, deeply cordate to truncate at the base and unequal, attenuate to acute or rarely rounded at the apex, rather succulent, bright-green, slightly paler beneath, glabrous, or when young obscurely puberulent or scaberulous; flowers umbellate, the peduncles slender, 2-4.5 cm. long, the pedicels slender, 5-10 mm. long, glabrous; bracts lanceolate or oblong, 2-3 mm. long, green, ciliolate, caducous; perianth greenish-yellow, 3-4 mm. long and broad, glabrous or rarely obscurely puberulent; stamens 2 or rarely 3, exserted; fruit about 1 cm. long and 2 mm. in diameter, narrowly clavate-cylindric, glabrous, bearing few or numerous glands irregularly scattered along the costs.
Type locality: Santiago de la Vega [Spanish Town], Jamaica. m
Distribution: Western Texas to southeastern Arizona and Lower California, and southward nearly throughout Mexico; nearly throughout the West Indies; also from Colombia and Venezuela

Commicarpus scandens (L.) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb
12: 373. 1909.
Boerhaavia scandens L. Sp. PL 3. 1753.
Boerhaavia Grahami A. Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. II. 15: 323. 1853.
Plants decumbent or usually clambering over shrubs, fruticose or suffrutescent below, much branched, the branches slender, pale-green, glabrous, or obscurely puberulent about the nodes; petioles slender, 1-2 cm. long; leaf-blades broadly cordate-ovate to ovate-deltoid or rarely rhombic-orbicular, 1.5-6.5 cm. long, 1-4.5 cm. wide, deeply cordate to truncate at the base and unequal, attenuate to acute or rarely rounded at the apex, rather succulent, bright-green, slightly paler beneath, glabrous, or when young obscurely puberulent or scaberulous; flowers umbellate, the peduncles slender, 2-4.5 cm. long, the pedicels slender, 5-10 mm. long, glabrous; bracts lanceolate or oblong, 2-3 mm. long, green, ciliolate, caducous; perianth greenish-yellow, 3-4 mm. long and broad, glabrous or rarely obscurely puberulent; stamens 2 or rarely 3, exserted; fruit about 1 cm. long and 2 mm. in diameter, narrowly clavate-cylindric,
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glabrous, bearing few or numerous glands irregularly scattered along the costae.
,Typ£ locality: Santiago de la Vega [Spanish Town], Jamaica.
Distribution : Western Texas to southeastern Arizona and Lower California, and southward nearly throughout Mexico; nearly throughout the West Indies; also from Colombia and Venezuela
to Peru.