a&6 Dr. Smith'j Botanical CharaSkn offome Plants 



* * Operculo hemtfphcerlco, 



7. E. botrvoldes, operculo hemifphaziico fubmutico, capitull* 



lateralibiis iblitariis, pedunculis cuneatis comprefRs, 

 frudtu turbinate. 



This, like the two preceding, bears its flowers in folltary caphuJa^ 

 bnt is diftinguifhed from them by its broad hemifpherical opercula, 

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

 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. 



8. E. hainajloma, operculo hemifphcerico deprefTo mucronulato, 



umbellis laterahbus terminalibufque; pedunculis com- 

 preffis, ramulis angulatis, fruiSlu fubglobofo. 



The leaves are coriaceous, lanceolate, terminating in along linear 

 point. Flowers in umbels, not caphula^ their covers depreffed 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 aflSnity with the Leptofpermum 

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



9. E. piperita, operculo hemifphaerico mucronulato, umbellis 



laterahbus fubpaniculatis folitariifve ; pedunculis com- 

 preflSs, ramulis angulatis. 

 E. piperita. Whites Voyage^ 226. tab. leaves only. Bot. 

 of New HolLmd, 42. 



Very diftind and different in appearance from the lafl, though 



their 



