Mirabilis triflora Benth.

Quamoclidion triflorum (Benth.) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat
Herb. 12: 358. 1909.
Mirabilis trifiora Benth. PI. Hartw. 23. 1839.
Quamoclidion nyctagineum Choisy, in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 429. 1849.
Plants erect or decumbent, much branched, the branches slender or stout, densely viscidpuberulent; petioles slender, 6-30 mm. long; leaf -blades broadly cordate-ovate, or the uppermost narrowly cordate-ovate, 2.5-7.5 cm. long, 2.5-5.5 cm. wide, cordate at the base, acute to attenuate at the apex, usually abruptly so, thin, bright-green, viscid-puberulent when young, glabrate in age, the leaves of the inflorescence much reduced, bractlike; peduncles axillary or glomerate at the ends of the branches, 2-12 mm. long; involucre 4-lobed, 3-flowered, broadly campanulate, 8-12 mm. long, densely viscid-puberulent with short hairs, the lobes unequal, longer than the tube, broadly ovate, abruptly or gradually acute or attenuate; perianth deep-red, tubular, 2-2.5 cm. long, 4 mm. in diameter, densely viscid-puberulent, the limb not broader than the tube, shallowly and obtusely lobed; filaments exserted 7-12 mm.; fruit eliptic-oblong in outline, 5 mm. long, nearly black, rugulose.
Type locality: Bolafios, Jalisco. >
Distribution: Cape Region of Lower California, and Jalisco.

Quamoclidion triflorum (Benth.) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat
Herb. 12: 358. 1909.
Mirabilis triflora Benth. PL Hartw. 23. 1839.
Quamoclidion nyctagincum Choisy, in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 429. 1849.
Plants erect or decumbent, much branched, the branches slender or stout, densely viscidpuberulent; petioles slender, 6-30 mm. long; leaf-blades broadly cordate-ovate, or the uppermost narrowly cordate-ovate, 2.5-7.5 cm. long, 2.5-5.5 cm. wide, cordate at the base, acute to attenuate at the apex, usually abruptly so, thin, bright-green, viscid-puberulent when young, glabrate in age, the leaves of the inflorescence much reduced, bractlike; peduncles axillary or glomerate at the ends of the branches, 2-12 mm. long; involucre 4-lobed, 3-flowered, broadly campanulate, 8-12 mm. long, densely viscid-puberulent with short hairs, the lobes unequal, longer than the tube, broadly ovate, abruptly or gradually acute or attenuate; perianth deep-red, tubular, 2-2.5 cm. long, 4 mm. in diameter, densely viscid-puberulent, the limb not broader than the tube, shallowly and obtusely lobed; filaments exserted 7-12 mm.; fruit elip tic-oblong in outline, 5 mm. long, nearly black, rugulose.
Type locality: Bolafios, Jalisco. #
Distribution: Cape Region of Lower California, and Jalisco.