Mirabilis viscosa Cav.

Allionia viscosa (Cav.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 533. 1891
Mirabilis viscosa Cav. Ic. 1: 13. 1791.
Nyctago parvi flora Salisb. Prodr. 57. 1796.
Calyxhymenia viscosa R. & P. Fl. Per. 1: 46. 1798.
Calymenia viscosa Pers. Syn. PL 1: 36. 1805.
Vitmania viscosa Turra; Steud. Nom. 140, as synonym. 1821.
Oxybaphus viscosus L'Her.; Choisy, in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 430. 1849.
Oxybaphus Cervantesii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21 : 436. 1886. Not O. Cervantesii Sweet, 1825.
Allionia rotata Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 347. 1909.
Oxybaphus rotatus Weatherby, Proc. Am. Acad. 49: 492. 1913.
Stems few or solitary, erect, 4-15 dm. high, stout, sparsely branched or simple below the inflorescence, green, densely short-pilose with viscid hairs; petioles slender, 1-6.5 cm. long, densely short-pilose; leaf -blades broadly cordate-ovate to ovate-deltoid, 2.5-10 cm. long, 1.5-9 cm. wide, usually cordate at the base but sometimes truncate, abruptly short-decurrent, acute or attenuate at the apex, entire or subsinuate, thin, bright-green, sparsely viscidpuberulent or glabrate on the upper surface, short-pilose or puberulent beneath, the leaves of the inflorescence reduced and bractlike, often very numerous, sessile or short-petiolate, the blades pvate to suborbicular; inflorescence ample, paniculate, much branched, the branches opposite, ascending, stout or slender, densely viscid-pilose with short fulvous hairs; involucres numerous, slender-pedunculate, at anthesis 3-5 mm. long, in fruit 15-25 mm. broad, densely viscidpilose, the lobes broadly rounded; flowers solitary or rarely 2 or 3 in each involucre, the perianth 8-20 mm. long, purplish-red, sparsely pilose outside, the limb 15-25 mm. broad; stamens 3, long-exserted ; fruit obovoid, 5 mm. long, brownishgray, glabrous, densely covered with large coarse rounded tubercles; seed oval-obovoid, 3 mm. long, pale yellowish-brown.
Type locality: Huanuco, Peru.
Distribution: Chihuahua to Tamaulipas and Oaxaca; Peru.

Allionia viscosa (Cav.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 533. 1891
Mirabilis viscosa Cav. Ic. 1: 13. 1791.
Nyctago parvijiora Salisb. Prodr. 57. 1796.
Calyxhymenia viscosa R. & P. Fl. Per. 1: 46. 1798.
Calymenia viscosa Pers. Syn. PI. 1: 36. 1805.
Vitmania viscosa Turra; Steud. Nom. 140, as synonym. 1821.
Oxybaphus viscosus L'Her.; Choisy, in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 430. 1849.
Oxybaphus Cervantesii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21 : 436. 1886. Not O. Cervantesii Sweet, 1825.
Allionia rotata Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 347. 1909.
Oxybaphus rotatus Weatherby, Proc. Am. Acad. 49: 492. 1913.
Stems few or solitary, erect, 4-15 dm. high, stout, sparsely branched or simple below the inflorescence, green, densely short-pilose with viscid hairs; petioles slender, 1-6.5 cm. long, densely short-pilose; leaf-blades broadly cordate-ovate to ovate-deltoid, 2.5-10 cm. long, 1.5-9 cm. wide, usually cordate at the base but sometimes truncate, abruptly short-decurrent, acute or attenuate at the apex, entire or subsinuate, thin, bright-green, sparsely viscidpuberulent or glabrate on the upper surface, short-pilose or puberulent beneath, the leaves of the inflorescence reduced and bractlike, often very numerous, sessile or short-petiolate, the blades pvate to suborbicular; inflorescence ample, paniculate, much branched, the branches opposite, ascending, stout or slender, densely viscid-pilose with short fulvous hairs; involucres numerous, slender-pedunculate, at an thesis 3-5 mm. long, in fruit 15-25 mm. broad, densely viscidpilose, the lobes broadly rounded; flowers solitary or rarely 2 or 3 in each involucre, the perianth 8-20 mm. long, purplish-red, sparsely pilose outside, the limb 15-25 mm. broad; stamens 3, long-exserted ; fruit obovoid, 5 mm. long, brownish-gray, glabrous, densely covered with large coarse rounded tubercles; seed oval-obovoid, 3 mm. long, pale yellowish-brown.
Type locality: Huanuco, Peru.
Distribution: Chihuahua to TamauHpas and Oaxaca; Peru.