Mirabilis violacea (L.) Heimerl

Allionia violacea L. Syst. ed. 10. 890. 1759
Oxybaphus violaceus Choisy, in DC. Prodr. 132: 432 1 849 Oxybaphus violaceus parvifiorus Choisy, m DC. Prodr 13^: $51. IS^y. Mirabilis violacea Heimerl' Beitr. Syst. Nyct. 23. 1897 Allionia mollis Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 405. 1911.
Stems few or numerous, slender, ascending or procumbent, 2-10 dm. long, much branched, the branches slender, green, bifariously puberulent or glabrate, sometimes viscid-pilose, the internodes much elongate; petioles slender, 1-6 cm. long, sparsely or densely pilose; leaf-blades mostly broadly ovate-deltoid, sometimes ovate-oblong or elongate-deltoid, 2-8 cm. long, 1 5-5 cm. wide, subcordate or truncate at the base, usually attenuate or long-attenuate at the apex rarely obtuse or rounded, entire or subundulate, thin, bright-green, sparsely puberulent or short-pilose or glabrate; inflorescence cymose, the cymes usually small and congested, or open in age, often leafy, the branches very slender, viscid-pilose; involucres few, on long or short, slender peduncles, about 3 mm. long in anthesis, in fruit 5-6 mm. long, green, viscidpilose, the lobes triangular-ovate, unequal, usually acute or acuminate; perianth 6-8 mm. long, purplish-red, viscid-pilose; stamens usually 3, short-exserted; fruit obovoid, 3.5-4 mm. long, terete, dark-brown or blackish, short-pilose, sparsely and irregularly tuberculate; seed oval-obovoid, 2.5 mm. long, pale yellowish-brown,
Typb locality: Cumana, Venezuela.
Distribution: Veracruz and Mexico (State) to Yucatan and Costa Rica; also in Colombia and Venezuela.

Allionia violacea L. Syst. ed. 10. 890. 1759
Oxybaphus violaceus Choisy, in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 432. 1849. Oxybaphus violaceus parvifiorus Choisy, in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 432. 1849. Mirabilis violacea Heimerl' Beitr. Syst. Nyct. 23. 1897. Allionia mollis Standley, Contr. TJ. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 405. 1911.
Stems few or numerous, slender, ascending or procumbent, 2-10 dm. long, much branched, the branches slender, green, bifariously puberulent or glabrate, sometimes viscid-pilose, the internodes much elongate; petioles slender, 1-6 cm. long, sparsely or densely pilose; leaf -blades mostly broadly ovate-deltoid, sometimes ovate-oblong or elongate-deltoid, 2-8 cm. long, 1.5-5 cm. wide, subcordate or truncate at the base, usually attenuate or long-attenuate at the apex, rarely obtuse or rounded, entire or subundulate, thin, bright-green, sparsely puberulent or short-pilose or glabrate; inflorescence cymose, the cymes usually small and congested, or open in age, often leafy, the branches very slender, viscid-pilose; involucres few, on long or short, slender peduncles, about 3 mm. long in anthesis, in fruit 5-6 mm. long, green, viscidpilose, the lobes triangular-ovate, unequal, usually acute or acuminate; perianth 6-8 mm. long, purplish-red, viscid-pilose; stamens usually 3, short-exserted ; fruit obovoid, 3.5-4 mm. long, terete, dark-brown or blackish, short-pilose, sparsely and irregularly tuberculate; seed oval-obovoid, 2.5 mm. long, pale yellowish-brown.
Type ix>caI/ITy: Cumana, Venezuela.
Distribution: Veracruz and Mexico (State) to Yucatan and Costa Rica; also in Colombia and Venezuela.