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involucres on a short peduncle with 2-3 pairs of minute spathulate 

 leaves; peduncles ^-1 lin. long, glabrous ; involucre |-1 lin. long, 

 campanuhite, glabrous or very thinly pubescent, with -i glands and 

 5 lobes ; glands minute, with the appendage just exceeding their 

 margin or obsolete; capsule ?,— | lin, in diani., pubescent with 

 spreading hairs along the somewhat acute angles, glabrous on the 

 sides ; stylos minute, bitid ; seeds -| lin. long, l-angled, transversely 

 wrinkled, pale reddish. Boias. It\ Eu]jJiorh. 12, /. 17, and in DC. 

 Prodr, XV. ii. 47 ; N. E. Br. in Dyer, FL Trojj, Afr. vi. i. 510. 



Coast Region : Uitenliage Div. ; Kedhouse, Mrs, Patermn^ 083 ! Albany Div. ; 

 Railway near Graliauiatown, Dahj ! East Loudon Div. ; East London, Enttrat/f 

 881 I 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Viljoens Drift, Ro'jcrs^ 4807! 

 Eastkrn Region: Natal; Inanda, Wo^jil, SOI near rieterniaritzTjiirg, Wthns, 



2257 ! Phcenix, SfhledUcr, 2938 : Berea, near Durban, Wood, 541 ! 



A native of Tropical America, iutrodviced into other Tropical and Subtropical 

 regions. 



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2. E. insequilatera (Sond. iu Lmnrea, xxiii. 105) ; annual ; stems 

 several, prostrate or occasionally apparently erect, 1-6 in. long, 

 tspreading from the crown of the root, pinnately branched, often 

 angular, glabrous all round ; leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 1-5 

 lin, long, J-2i lin. broad, oblong or obli(iuely elliptic, obtusely 

 rounded at the apex, obli(i[uely half-cordate at the base, entire or 

 toothedj glabrous on both sides, herbaceous or subcoriaceous, some- 

 times marked with a red spot or blotch ; stipules all free or those on 

 the underside of the stem more or less united, subulate or cut into 

 iiliform segments^ often as long as or longer than the petioles ; 



involucres solitary and axillary on very short axillary branchlets 

 minute, very shortly pedunculate, ^— | lin. long and as nmch in 

 diam., bubcampanulate or globose-campanulate, glabrous, with 4 

 glands and 5 minute eiliate lobes; glands minute, half surrounded 



by a narrow entire or 2-3-touthed appendage, sometimes almost 

 obsolete ; capsule |-1 lin. in diam., glabrous, exserted on a pedicel 

 slightly longer than the involucre and recurved ; styles very minute, 

 bitid; seeds 5-^- lin. long, 4-angIed, w ith sliglit truns\'erse rugosities, 



pale reddish or whitish. Walp. Ann. iii. 358. £. parvifolhj E, Meyer, 

 and E, atdlgera^ E, Meyer in Brege, Zicel Pjl, DocumentCj 184 {name 

 only), and ex Boiss. in DO, Prodr. xv. ii. 34, 35. E, sangahiea^ 

 Hocltd. ff' Sttad. i-x Boit^s. in DC. Prodr, xv. ii. 35 {inchuUwj 

 vars. tsetigera and natalcnaia^ Boiss.) ; N, E, Br. in Dyer^ El. 

 Troj>. AJ)\ vi. i. 508. AnisojjJryllani in&tqailatentm, KfotzscJf 'f* 

 aarc/ce in AlhandL Akad, Berlin, I860, 22. A, Mundii, Klutzsrli d 

 Garcle^ I.e. 25. A. setigernm, KlotzscJt d: Garcle, I.e. 29. 



Var. ^. perennis (N. E. Br.); perennial, witU a more or less woody rootstock ; 

 leaveB oblong to ellipticj sometiniea nearly as broad a^i long, entire or finely and 

 very sharply toothedj usually more eoriaceouB than in the type, otherwise siniilar. 



Coast Region: Bedford Div.; Goba River, MdcOivan, 1169! Fort Beaufort 

 Di\. ; Adelaide, Ttfiyrr.*, 4101 ! Queenst<>wn Div. : near Queenstown, (Jalplu, 1950 I 

 King Williamstown Div. ; near King Willianistown; ^I'hJichier, 6122 ! Krist London 



