Boerhavia diffusa L.

PLANTS OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
Bet.	, ‘	%
Locality Eniwetok Atoll, Aoman Island.
? V *	* 7
Habitat ??	^
mostly flats of coral sand, changing to broken coral rock as o^%
bea^bi is approached; entirely planted, to cocenuts, inner portKm
. i clear and ¿assy beneath, nearer outer beach a brush of Scaevola]
and Pis&iia i% beneath ttees.
Common on rocky ground near outer "beach.
Date ’ May 16, 1946	Altitude 1-3 m. (estimated*) i
Coll. F. R. Fosberg No. 24356
Prostrate; «tens red; leaves thin, purple
Remarks beneath; flowers pink (found with #¿4362 in •
places and not especially intergrading with it). (lot
seen fruiting.) (»ot affected >y iabug©.) "aatok*
* U.S.C.C. Economic Survey of Micronesia
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