Mirabilis aggregata (Ortega) Cav.

Allionia aggregata (Ortega) Spreng. Syst. 1: 384. 1825
Calyxkymenia aggregata Ortega, Dec. 81. 1798.
Mirabilis aggregata Cav. Ic. 5: 22. 1799.
Calymenia aggregata Pers. Syn. PI. 1: 37. 1805.
Oxybaphus aggregatus Vahl, Enum. 2: 41. 1806.
Allionia albida Coult. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 2: 352, in part. 1894. Not A. albida Walt. 1788.
Mirabilis pseud aggregata Heimerl, Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 5: 183. 1901.
Mirabilis pseudaggregata subhirsuta Heimerl, Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 5: 184. 1901.
Mirabilis pseudaggregata eglandulosa Heimerl, Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 5: 184. 1901.
Allionia trichodonta Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 354. 1909.
Allionia pseudaggregata Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 356. 1909.
Allionia pseudaggregata subhirsuta Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 356. 1909.
Allionia hirsuta aggregata A. Nelson; Coult. & Nels. Man. 173, in part. 1909.
Oxybaphus pseudaggregatus Weatherby, Proc. Am. Acad. 45: 425. 1910.
Stems few or numerous, stout, erect or decumbent, 1.5-10 dm. high, sparsely branched or simple below the inflorescence, usually glabrous below but sometimes bifariously puberulent or short-pilose, glabrate, puberulent, or short-pilose above with mostly v 5 scid hairs, or rarely sparsely hirsute, the internodes usually elongate; leaf-blades sessile or on very short stout petioles, linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, lance-oblcng, or lance-ovate, 1.2-10 cm. long, 0.3-3 cm. wide, acute to long-attenuate at the base, gradually narrowed to the acute or obtuse apex, entire or sinuate, thick and succulent, green, or glaucescent beneath, glabrous or sparsely hirsute or short-pilose, often ciliate ; involucres usually all axillary in young plants, in mature plants arranged in an ample cymose inflorescence, this sparsely branched, the branches slender, alternate, viscid-pilose, bearing few or numerous reduced bractlike leaves, the involucres slender-pedunculate, viscid-pilose, at anthesis 4-5 mm. long, in age 6-9 mm. long, the lobes ovate or oval, acutish or rounded; flowers usually 3 in each involucre, the perianth 8-10 mm. long, sparsely pilose, pink; stamens 3-5, exserted; fruit broadly obovoid, 3.5-5 mm. long, brownish or olivaceous, short-hirtellous, the angles broad, smooth or nearly so, the sides rugose or short-tuberculate; seed oval or obovoid, 2.5-3 mm. long, pale yellowish-brown.
Type locality: Mexico. ,, f .
Distribution: Western Texas and Chihuahua to the State of Mexico.

Allionia aggregata (Ortega) Spreng. Syst. 1: 384. 1825
Calyxhymenia aggregata Ortega, Dec. 81. 1798.
Mirabilis aggregata Cav. Ic. 5: 22. 1799.
Calymenia aggregata Pers. Syn. PL 1: 37. 1805.
Oxybaphus aggregatus Vahl, Enum. 2: 41. 1806.
Allionia albida Coult. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 2: 352, in part. 1894. Not A. albida Walt. 1788.
Mirabilis pseudaggregata Heimerl, Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 5: 183. 1901.
Mirabilis pseudaggregata subhirsuta Heimerl, Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 5: 184. 1901.
Mirabilis pseudaggregata eglandulosa Heimerl, Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 5: 184. 1901.
Allionia trichodonta Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 354. 1909.
Allionia pseudaggregata Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 356. 1909.
Allionia pseudaggregata subhirsuta Standley, Contr. TJ. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 356. 1909.
Allionia hirsuta aggregata A. Nelson; Coult. & Nels. Man. 173, in part. 1909.
Oxybaphus pseudaggregatus Weatherby, Proc. Am. Acad. 45: 425. 1910.
Stems few or numerous, stout, erect or decumbent, 1.5-10 dm. high, sparsely branched or simple below the inflorescence, usually glabrous below but sometimes bifariously puberulent or short-pilose, glabrate, puberulent, or short-pilose above with mostly viscid hairs, or rarely sparsely hirsute, the internodes usually elongate; leaf -blades sessile or on very short stout petioles, linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, lance-oblcng, or lance-ovate, 1.2-10 cm. long, 0.3-3 cm. wide, acute to long-attenuate at the base, gradually narrowed to the acute or obtuse apex, entire or sinuate, thick and succulent, green, or glaucescent beneath, glabrous or sparsely hirsute or short-pilose, often ciliate; involucres usually all axillary in young plants, in mature plants arranged in an ample cymose inflorescence, this sparsely branched, the branches slender, alternate, viscid-pilose, bearing few or numerous reduced bractlike leaves, the involucres slender-pedunculate, viscid-pilose, at anthesis 4-5 mm. long, in age 6-9 mm. long, the lobes ovate or oval, acutish or rounded; flowers usually 3 in each involucre, the perianth 8-10 mm. long, sparsely pilose, pink; stamens 3-5, exserted; fruit broadly obovoid, 3.5-5 mm. long, brownish or olivaceous, short-hirtellous, the angles broad, smooth or nearly so, the sides rugose or short-tuberculate ; seed oval or obovoid, 2.5-3 mm. long, pale yellowish-brown.
Type locality: Mexico. .
Distribution: Western Texas and Chihuahua to the State of Mexico.