414 SYNGENESIA AEQUALIS, Eupatorium, 
succulent. Leaves alternate, sub-sessile, elliptic, pretty 
smooth on both sides, serrate, from one to three or four inches ; 
lohg, and not quite half so broad. Peduncles opposite to 
the leaves, axillary, or terminal, each supporting many small, 
purple flowers, forming a very irregular corymb. Calyx im- 
bricated ; Jeaflets short. Florets numerous, of a light purple 
colour. Seeds sub-clavate, from four to five, or six-sided. 
Pappus none. 
EUPATORIUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1272. 
Receptacle naked. Pappus plumose. Calyx imbricat- 
ed. Style semibifid, erect. 
1. E, divergens. Roxb. a 
Shrubby, erect. Branches diverging. Leaves alternate, 
ventricose-oblong, recurved, serrate-dentate, rugose, Co- 
rymbs terminal. Calyx from five to eight-flowered. 
A native of Mysore, from whence Dr. Buchanan sent the 
seeds to the Botanic garden in 1801, where the a blos- 
som during the cold season, 
Stem erect, straight, from six to eight feet high, shrubby, 
round, covered with pretty smooth, dark brown bark. 
Branches numerous from the middle of the stem upwards, 
round, downy, and diverging. Leaves alternate, short-peti- 
oled, elliptic, recurved, serrate-dentate, rugose, while young 
downy, when old scabrous, from one to six inches long. Co- 
rymbs terminal, compound, or the whole upper half of the 
plants may be called one large panicle. Flowers very nU- 
merous, several together and sub-sessile, on short villous pe- 
duncles. Calyx sub-cylindric, imbricated, downy. #lorets 
five or six, twice as long as the calyx, curved near the mid- 
dle of the tube; at first purple, gradually becoming white, 
mouth of the tube campanulate; segments of the border 
narrow, sab-ensiform, Stamens and style erect. Pappus 
almost simple, twice as long as the calyx, Receptacle con- 
cave, 
