286 Dr. Smith* j Botanical Characters offime Plants 



* * Operculo hemifphaerico. 



7. E. botryoiiks, operculo hemifphserico fubmutico, capitulis 

 lateralibus folitariis, pedunculis cuneatis compreflis, 

 fructu turbinate 



This, like the two preceding, bears its flowers in folitary capitula 9 

 but is diftinguifhed from them by its broad hemifphericai opercula y 

 with fcarcely any point at their fummit, which, from the clutter- 

 ing together of the flowers, look like bunches of fome kind of 

 berries. The common flower-ftalks are flat, and very broad, efpe- 

 cially at the top. The leaves lanceolate, oblique. 



S. E. hamqftoma, operculo hemifphaerico deprefTo mucronulato, 

 umbellis lateralibus terminalibufque ; pedunculis com- 

 preflis, ram u lis angulatis, fructu fubglobofo. 



The leaves are coriaceous, lanceolate, terminating in a long linear 

 point. Flowers in umbels, not capitula y their covers deprefled at 

 the top, but fuddenly terminating in a little point. Fruit globofe, 

 cut off at the fummit, its orifice furrounded by a broad deep-red 

 border. This fpecies has a great affinity with the Leptofpermum 

 umbellatum of Gsertner, but I dare not afTert it to be the fame. 



9. E. piperita, operculo hemifphaerico mucronulato, umbellis 

 lateralibus fubpaniculatis folitariifve ; pedunculis com- 

 preflis, ramulis angulatis. 

 E. piperita. White s Voyage^ 22.6. tab, leaves only. Bat. 

 of New Holland. 42. 



Very diftinft and different in appearance from the laft, though 



their 



