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E. orrosiTrFoiTA, Jack. E.T. Upper Tcnasscrim. Great Xicobar. 



Leaves opposite. Capsules tlic size of a clicrry. 



X X Leaves entire. 



E. HOLOPirrnA, Kz. E.T. Tree forests of J[artaban and Upper Tcnasserim. 



Leaves quite entii'e, alternate. Females and fruit unknown. 



E. (actepuila) rectixeevis, Kz. Katcliall and Tillangehong. 



+ + Flowers clustered, inclosed in a cali/x-like hell-shaped or slipper-shaped 

 involucre. 



EcpnoKBiA, Linnaus. 



Flowers monoecious, soToral together in cup-sliaped involucres, wliich are 4-5- 

 tootlied, with alternating horizontal glands, sometimes expanded into a leai'y coloured 

 appendage. Mule Jtowers pedicelled, without calyx, supported by ciliutc-jagged 

 bractlets, or surrounding the solitary central female flower. Femule calyx 3-6-lobed 

 or wanting. Oianj 3-eelled, cells 1-ovuled. Cupsuh's ;5-coccous, dry. 



Herbs, shrubs or tz'ees, often eaetus-like, abcjunding in milky juice. 



* Flowers in dichofomoics cymes {rureli/ solifury) above the scars of the fallen leavesi 

 or supra-axillarij. Floral leaves ahsiiit. 



J Unarmed. 



E. SESSIFLORA. PegU. 



A fleshy undershrub a foot high, with a tuberculous root and terete stem, all 

 parts glabrous. Leaves at the end of stem, sessile, IA-3 inches long. Stipules 

 minute, glan<l-like. Flower-heads sessile. Styles simple, very short, crimson. 



E. EPiPHYLLOiDEs, Kz. Car and Great Nicobar. Escape Bay, South Andaman. 



A leaf-shedding tree, fleshy, unarmed, all paiis glabrous. Branches thick-winged, 

 terete, narrowed at the joints. Flower-heads in dichotomous cymes from the sinuses 

 of the erenatures on which the leaf-scars rest. Capsides deeply 3-lobed, glabrous. 



% \ Armed with paired, short, stipulary thorns. 

 t Styles 2-clcft. 

 *E. AXTiQUOEUM, L. 7'. All over Burma and the Andauuuis 



Sha-soung-pya-that (Kurz). "P to 2000 feet. 



Branches angular, 3- (occasionally 4-5-)wingcd, wings fleshy, sinuately-repand. 

 Cultivated for hedges. 



f f Sti/les siiiijihj thichned at hase. 

 *E. XEUiiFor.iA, L. T. All about Burmese villages, and 



Sha-soung (Kurz). probably wild also. 



Fleshy, tliorns solitary or paired, rising from thick saw-like protuberances, placed 

 in sinuate-repand longitutliual rows. 



E. NivcLiA, Ham. T. The Pegu range, along streams. 



Sha-soung (Kurz). 



Branches terete, .short, fle.shy-tubercled. 



X Cymes sessile, clustered, terminal, or in the forks of the hranch-whorls. Floral 

 leaves none. 



*E. TiRCCALLi, L. F.T. Cultivated round monasteries in France. 



Shasoung-lok-hnyo (Kurz). 



Branches terete, elongate. Leaves very small, linear. 



X X Cymes several, terminal, with white or crimson floral leaves. 

 E. puLcnEiiuntA, Willd. S. Cultivated round villages and monasteries. 



Unarmed. Leaves herbaceous, long-pelioled. 



