FIGURE 6. Boerhavia scandens L.: A. Original drawing by José Brunete, identifier MA-AJB04-D-0011. B–C. Volume I of Specimen Florae Americae Meridionalis, named as "Herba Purgationes / Bragantia", table 31 drawn by José Joaquim Freire. D. Volume IV of Specimen Florae Americae Meridionalis, page 9, description of Bragantia and Bragantia discolor shown on table 31. E–G. Vandelli's Hortus Olisiponensis (1771b): title page, description of the new genus Bragantia, and the original illustration on Table 1, respectively. H. Specimen sent by Vandelli to Linnaeus, annotated by the latter as "Gomphrena fruticosa Vand. Bras. [on verso:] Bragantia Vand. fasc. 6", and by James Edward Smith with "arborescens", LINN 319.3. I. Print from Vandelli's Fasciculus plantarum (1771a: 6), description of Bragantia. Source: Archivo del Real Jardín Botánico (MA), Real Jardín Botánico – CSIC, Madrid (A), National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon (B–D), National Library of Portugal, Lisbon (E–G, I), LINN – © The Linnean Society of London (H).

Published as part of Moraes, Pedro Luís Rodrigues De, 2025, The botanical legacy of the Portuguese Philosophical Expeditions of the late Eighteenth Century, pp. 1-346 in Phytotaxa 735 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.735.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/18419347