994 Compositae. 
oblong-ovate, commonly with a subcordate base, scabrous; peduncle 
sometimes enlarging and hollow; involucre narrow-campanulate; 
ligules from obovate to narrowly spatulate, red, purple, or yellow; 
achenes of the disk l-awned, sometimes with a rudiment of a second 
awn or tooth. — Flow. March. 
M. ma. Ramle; recently introduced (Muschler). 
A native of Mexico, and now widely dispersed also in North America. 
570. (30.) Eelipta. 
Capitula heterogamous, radiate. Involucre hemispherical of sub- 
biseriate herbaceous nearly equal bracts equalling the head. Paleae 
of receptacle narrow, folded, or of centre of receptacle setiform or 0. 
Ligule of ray-flowers small, entire or bidentate. Anther-base entire 
or nearly so. Achenes somewhat angular, minutely tubercled; pappus 
0 or shortly biaristate. — Herbs, usually strignose or hirsute, with 
opposite entire or toothed leaves and terminal or axillary pedunculate 
rather small solitary or geminate heads. 
A small genus of warm regions. 
1370. Eclipta alba Hassk. Plant. Jav. Rar. (1856), p. 528. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 249. — DC. Prodrom. V, p.490. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 88 no. 547. — Verbesina alba L. Spee. 
Plant. I, p. 1272. — Cotula alba L. System. I, p. 564. — LKelipta 
erecta L. Mant., p. 286. — KEclipta prostrata L. Mant., p. 286. — 
Icon. Dill. Elth., tab. 137. — An erect or decumbent scabrid herb, 
30—60 cm high; branches striate or sulcate. Leaves lanceolate 
or narrowly elliptical, narrowed at both ends, more or less seabrid- 
punctate, very shortly petiolate, ranging up to 9 by 2 cm. Peduneles 
1—3 together, unequal, slender, ranging up to 5'/, em, suberect. 
Capitula 5—10 mm diameter, hemispherical. Bracts of the involucre 
ovate, acuminate, strigose-pubescent. Ray-florets small, white. - 
Tubular florets 4-dentate at the apex. Achenes usually quite glabrous, 
minutely tubercled. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. N.d. N.f. N. v. O. Little Oasis. 
Local name: svde (Delile). 
Also known from ‘Tropical Africa. 
571. (31.) Verbesina Linn. 
Capitula hemispherical heterogamous radiate; ray-flowers female 
ligulate, ligule spreading, deeply toothed, yellow. Involucral bracts 
1—2-seriate, herbaceous, linear, acute, often unequal, equalling the 
disk; paleae of receptacle conduplicate sheathing the flowers. Anther- 
