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Ethulia. SYNGENESIA AEQUALIS. 413 
Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate-oblong, pointed, with the 
margins dentate-serrate, smooth on both sides and of a slender 
texture, from one to three inches long, and about one broad. 
Petioles short, channelled, Flowers terminal, somewhat um- 
belled, pretty large. Calyx about eight-leaved, nearly the 
length of the florets. Calycle about eight-leaved, many times 
shorter than the calyx. Corol ; florets about twenty. 
3. C. sonchifolia, Willd. iii, 1730. 
Erect, annual, fistulous. Leaves lyrate, and sagittate, stem- 
clasping. Flowers umbelled. 
Muel-schevi. Rheed. Mal. x. t. 68. 
Beng. Sadi-modz. : 
An erect, branchy annual, a native of hedges, rubbish, &c. 
It flowers during the cold season. 
Stem erect, flexuose, branchy, from two to three feet high, 
piped, smooth. Leaves stem-clasping, lyred, most slightly 
dentate, pretty smooth. Umbellets terminal, compound, many- 
flowered. Flowers small, of a bright purple colour. Calyx 
simple, from eight to twelve-toothed, from eight to twelve- 
striated. Seed five-seeded. 
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ETHULIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1271. 
Receptacle naked. Pappus a membranaceous margin. 
Calyx equal. 
E. ramosa. Roxb. 
Ramous, erect. Leaves alternate, elliptic, serrate, smooth. 
Flowers peduncled, sub-corymbiform. 
Introduced into the Botanic garden by seeds sent foie thé 
interior of Bengal, by Dr. William Carey. Flowering time 
the cold season. s 
Root annual, fibrous. Stem and branches nearly erect ; 
general height of the whole plant, which is considerably ra- 
mous, about two feet, smooth in every part, and somewhat 
