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rarely shrubby, never twining. Leaves simple, usually entire. 

 Flowers small, in few-flowered axillary dichasia or aggregated in spikes 

 at the end of the branches. 



Species, about 70, nearly all Tropical American. 



Capsule 2-celled. Corolla shallowly lobed . . . 1. E. alsinoides. 



Capsule 1-celled. Corolla deeply lobed . . . 2. E. nummularius. 



1. E. alsinoides, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 392. Annual or perennial. 

 Stems tufted, slender, hairy, spreading or ascending. Leaves elliptic, 

 oblanceolate-oblong to lanceolate, |— 1 in. long, hairy on both sur- 

 faces, generally narrowed to the base, apex obtuse (often mucronate) 

 to acute. Peduncles slender, hairy, 1-3-flowered, shorter than, equal 

 to or longer than the leaves, often 1-1|- in. long; pedicels short; 

 bracts lanceolate, minute. Sepals lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, acute, 

 hairy, H-2 lin. long. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, a little longer 

 than the calyx, usually bright blue, rarely white, 3 lin. in diam. when 

 expanded. Capsule globose, 4-valved, lh lin. in diam. — Seeds 4, 

 brown, or black, glabrous. — Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 447 ; Benth. in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. 470 ; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 246 (var. 

 sfrictus): Schweinfurth, Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 93 (inch vars.) ; Oliver in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 117 ; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 85 ; Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 724 ; Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr. C. 328 

 (inch varieties) ; Capua in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 222 (inch 

 varieties). E.fugacissimus, Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. No. 828; 

 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 75. E. linifolius, Linn. I.e. ; Choisy I.e. 

 449 ; Franchet, Sert. Somal. 43. E. azureus, Schum. & Thonn. 

 Beskr. Gum. PI. 166. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal: Roger, 12! Heuclelot, 229! Perrottet, 504! 

 Gold Coast : Accra, Don ! Vogel I Ansell ! Brown, 360 ! Salaga, Krause ! Togo, 

 Warnecke, 212 ! Lagos, Migeod ! Boivland. Northern Nigeria, Vogel, 159 ! 

 Barter, 546 ! Bomu : Mora, Vogel ! 



Nile Land. Throughout the region from Nubia to Mombasa, Kotscliy, 371 ! 

 Bent! Lord! Cienkowski, Pfund, 135! 514! Kotschy, 411! 412! Schweinfurth 

 Jf Biva! Pappi, Terraciano, Bagazzi, Steudner, 957! Ehrenberg, Petit, 297! 

 Schimper, 359 ! 828 ! 1150. Hildehrandt, 529 ! 1528 ! Mrs. Port Phillips ! Miss 

 Edith Cole ! Bevoil, Biva, 1271, 1471, Schweinfurth, 7 ! 4269 ! Freeman Sf Lucas ! 

 Donaldson Smith ! WelLly ! Bagshaw, 318 ! Scott-Elliot, 6109 ! 7380 ! 7444 ! 

 Speke cf Grant, 538 ! Whyte ! Kassner, 534 ! Johnston ! Taylor ! Wakefield ! 



lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Hens, 17, A 311 ! Loango, Soyaux. Angola, 

 Welwitsch, 6155 ! 6156 ! 6161 ! 6162 ! 6255 ! Gossweiler, 225 ! Baum, 510. 

 Damaraland, Een ! Amboland, Schinz, 746. 



South Central. Congo Free State : Mtowa, Descamps. Angola : upper part 

 of Ninda River, Serpa Pinto. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa, Sannington ! Wilson, 28 ! Fischer, 

 415 ! Hoist, 2595 ! Volkens, 2182 ! Portuguese East Africa : Tete and Lupata, 

 Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Simons! Buchanan! Matabeleland, 

 Oates ! Elliott.' Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 116 ! Band, 127 ! Ngamiland, Lugard, 141! 

 Miss Lugard, 99 ! 



A very variable plant, varying from spreading to erect in habit, and also in the 



