Fnjyhnrhiff.] EuriioiauACK-i: (Brown). 240 



Boiss, Iti DC. Prodr. xv. ii, 22, hid, mr. awjastlfolln, Bnhs,^. 

 Amsopiifjlhnu hidlcmu, Svhweluf. lieitr. FL AetJtiop, 31. PJq/l- 

 lanfhni$ ohliqiais, E, Meyer in Draje, Zwei Pfl, Vocumenie^ 211, 

 ntnae onJ//^ not of 31iilL Arg, — Tithyraalm amerlcanaa Jloscalis albia, 

 Commelin, Pr^l Bof. 60, /, 10. 



Kalahari Rkgiox : Tiaii.^vaal ; Sliiiuvaiif, Janod, G44 ! Kaap lluuleu, near 

 liarberton, Thorncroft, 758 ! 



Easti-:kx RecxIox : Poiiduluud ; between St. Juhuri and Tuitsikalja Kivers, 

 ^'%f, 4625! Natal; Umhlanga, Wood, 1213! near Phoenix, Wood, 1^02! 

 Milcchttr, 2899! and without jjrecise locality, Gevrard^ 56! bctM'ceu J)elagoa 

 Bay and Komati lliver, Bolus, 9768 ! 



Also in Tropical and North Africa, the warmer parts of Asia and Malaya, 

 Tropical and North America. Probablv introduced into South Africa. 



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6. E. hirta (Liim. Sp. PI. ed. i. 454, and Anut'ii. Acad. Hi. Ill) ; 

 annual, 1^-16 in. lii^di ; stems erect or decumbent at the base, simple 

 or dichotomously branchings rather coarsely pilose with yellow 

 spreading hairs, usually densely at the upper part^ thinly below, 

 With an under pubescence of minute curved subadpressed hairs; 

 leaves opposite, .\-2 in. long, /.-^ ^^^^ broad, obli<juely lanceolate or 

 ovate or rhomboid-oblong, acute or subobtuse, on one side of the 

 midrib cuneate at the base, on the other rounded, finely serrate, 

 thinly adpressed -pubescent on both sides, more minutely so or 

 sometimes glabrous above; petiole i-li liu. long: stipules minute, 

 subulate ; cymes axillary, \~h in. in diam., globose or dichotomously 

 divided into 2-3 globose heads, w4th peduncles 1-6 lin. long, 

 puberulous with minute curved hairs ; involucres densely crowded, 

 male or bisexual, minute, about -J- lin. long, campanulate, obconic 

 or cup-like, with 4 glands and 5 deltoid acute fringed lobes; glands 

 hnear viewed sideways, orbicular and J-^V 1^^^- ^^ diam. at the 

 truncate apex as seen from above, with a very minute appendage ; 

 capsule exserted and curved to one side, 3-angled, -A- lin. in diam., 

 thinly puberulous with minute adpressed curved hairs; styles free, 

 I Hn. long, deeply divided into 2 slender, truncate arms; seeds 

 about I lin. long, oljlong, 4-angled, with slight transverse rugosities, 

 light redilish. Jacq. Collect v. 160, /. 11, fig. 1; N, E, Br. in 

 I>yer, FL Trap. Afr. vl I 496. £. capUaia, Lam. Encycl \l 422. 

 F. inhdlfem, Jacq. Ic. iii. 5, /. 478, and Collect, ii. 361 : Uoiss. in 

 I>C. Prodr. XV. ii. 21. * 



Kalahari IIegion: Transvaal; Breniersdorp. Burtt-JJart/, 30071 Barberton, 

 Thovncroft, 1993 ! Warmbath, Walker ! 



Eastern Kegion : Natal; Malvern, near Durban, Wood, Q^7 \ near Durban, 

 Wood, 120 I a weed in Durban Botanic Garden, Wood, 3130 ! Phcenix, Sckkehter, 

 2890 ! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 239 1 Louren<^o Mar.pies, 

 Woiitas, 178. 



Widely distributed throughout the Tropics, pi-obably Introduced into South 

 Africa. 



7- E. neopolycnemoides (Pax k Hoffm. in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 240); 



annual, or perhaps sometimes perennial, 2-10 in. high, divided at 

 the base into 2 (or occasionally more) main branches, which are 



