248 EUriiOKBiAOK.E (Brown). [fJ^fj^Aurllu. 



Eastf.rn Ukgion : Portuguese Ea^t Africa ; Ressauo Garcia, ucar Koiuati Tourt, 

 1000 ft., Schkchter, 11915 I 



4. E. livida (E. Meyer In Drege, Zwei Ptl. Pocumente, 184, ex 

 Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 14); perennial; steins many from a 

 woody rootstock, decumbent or prostrate, branchedj glabrous ; 

 leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, coriaceous or perhaps somewhat 

 fl(*shy, .^-^ in. long, 2|-5i- lin. broad^ ovate^ elliptic or suborbicular, 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex_, obliquely subcordate at the base, 

 entire, glabrous on both sides ; stipules 2 to each node, ovate, 

 toothed ; cymes small, axillary, pedunculate ; involucres on peduncles 

 |-U lin. long, cup-shaped, | lin. in diam., glabrous, with 3-4 glands 

 and 4-5 minute fringed lobes ; glands aT)0ut ^ lin. in their greater 

 diam., transversely elliptic, entire, with the appendage merely form- 

 ing an outer rim to the outer margin ; capsule exserted and recurved, 

 IJ-lJj lin. in diam., glabrous; styles ^- lin. long, free to the base, 

 erect with bifid recurved tips; seeds about ^ lin. long, ovoid or 

 ellipsoid, obscurely 4-angledj slightly rugulose, whitish. 



Coast Region: Ea-st Loudon Div. ; by the shore on Cove Rocks at East 



London, Galpin^ 7351 ! Kouiglia Div, ; near the mouth of the Kei River, 

 Fkinaijan , 180 ! 



Eastei^x Kegtox: Transkei ; prostrate on the beach in patches, Miss Pegler, 

 1290! Krielis Country, Buwler I Fondoland ; between UmsitaLa River ^and 

 Umtentn Hiver, Dreqe, 4622 1 and without precise locality, Backmann^ 756 I 

 Natal; The Bluff, 260 ft., near Durban, Wood, 7933! and without precise 

 locality, Gtrrardj 11711 sea shore at Winkle Spruit, Miss Franls iyi Ilerh. Wof>d, 

 11898! 



I, 



5. E. hypericifolia (Linn. Sp. PI. cd. i. ioi^and Amccn. Acad, iii- 

 113); annual, 3-18 in. high, branching at the base or sometimes 

 simj^le; stems simple or alternately branching, puberulous or 

 glabrous; leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 4-!^ in. long, l~l in. 

 broad, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic or ovate, subacute to 

 rounded at the apex, oblirpie at the base, minutely toothed or 

 rarely entire, puberulous beneath or on both sides ; stipules divided 

 into 2 or more slender fimbriate segments; cymes axillary, ^-i- in. 

 in diam., laxly few- to densely many-flowered, on a peduncle x\)^i' 

 in. long, puberulous or glabrous, often with a pair of leaves at its 

 apex ; bracts -^~| lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate or entirely 

 glabrous; involucres about i lin. long, on peduncles ^-1 lin. long, 

 cup-shaped, puberulous or glabrous, with 4 appendaged glands and 

 5 lobes ; glands minute, orbicular or transversely elliptic ; appen- 



ly elliptic, entire, ^—^ 1^^* broad, white ; 

 capsule 1 lin. in diam., pubescent or glabrous ; styles deeply bitid ; 

 seeds ellipsoid, 4-angled, sliglitly transversely rugose, whitish-grey 

 to reddish-brown, with a glaucous hue at the apex or all over. 

 HooJc. Exot. FL i. /. 36; Bolss. In DC. Prodr, xv. ii. 23 ; N. K Br. 

 in Dyevy FL Tro_p, Afr. vi. i. 408. E. })ilullf era, Linn, 





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if othrr ftrrthors. E, indiea, Lavi. Enrycl. ii. 423; 



