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pappus none. — Distkib. Six species, one cosmopolitan, tropical and 

 sub-tropical, the others South American and African. 



SiEGESBECKiA ORiENTALis, Linn. Sp. PI. 900. An erect annual, 

 1 to 3 feet high, branching, the lower branches opposite, everywhere 

 clothed with pubescence, often glandular and crisped. Leaves mem- 

 branous, opposite, the lower ovate sub-rhomboid, the upper ovate- 

 lanceolate, dentate or crenate, passing into linear-lanceolate, and 

 sometimes entire ; all cuneate at the base ; both surfaces olivaceous 

 when dry ; the upper scabrid, hispid ; the lower more softly hairy ; 

 main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, curved, spreading ; length 1 to 4 in. ; 

 petioles very short or absent. Involucre with the outer bracts longer 

 than the inner. Gypselas black, the outer enclosed in the glandular 

 involucral bracts. Boiss. Fl. Orient. III. 250; DC. Prod. V. 495; 

 Wight Ic. 1103; Wall. Cat. 3182; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 304; 

 Prain Bengal Plants, 607. S. glutinosa, Wall. Cat. 3182. S. hrachiata 

 and S. orientalis, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 432. Minyranthes lieterophylla, 

 Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Misc. 1851, I. 181. 



In all the provinces, near habitations. 



15. EcLiPTA, Linn. 



Strigose or hirsute annuals. Leaves opposite. Heads small, axillary 

 ■or terminal, pedunculate, heterogamous, rayed. Bay-florets ? , sub- 

 2-seriate, fertile or sterile, ligulate, small, entire or bifid, white rarely 

 yellow. Disk-florets § , fertile, tubular, 4-5-fid. Livolucre hemispheric 

 or broadly campanulate ; its bracts sub-2-seriate, herbaceous, the outer 

 large and broad ; receptacle flat or nearly so, the outer pales enclosing 

 several florets ; the inner ones narrow, sometimes absent. Anthers 

 with obtuse, almost entire, bases. Style-arms flattened, with short 

 triangular or obtuse appendages. Gypselas of the ray narrow, tri- 

 quetrous, sometimes barren ; those of the disk stouter, somewhat 

 compressed laterally, the apex entire, toothed or 2-aristate. — Distbib. 

 7 species in South America and Australia, and 1 cosmopolitan in the 

 tropics. 



EcLiPTA ERECTA, Linn. Mant. II. 266. An erect or diffuse branched 

 slender herb, hirsute or strigillose. Leaves variable in form and size, 

 •sessile or with very short petioles ; linear, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly 

 elliptic ; narrowed at both ends ; main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, spreadmg, 

 faint ; length 1 to 4 in. ; breadth -2 to "5 in. Heads "3 to '4 in. 

 in diam., solitary or in pairs from the leaf- axils ; the peduncles -25 

 to 1'5 in. long, when in pairs always unequal. Livolucral bracts 

 •equal to or longer than the flowers, unequal, ovate or obovate, apiculate. 

 -Gypselas scabrid, without pappus. Clarke Comp. Ind. 134 ; Hook. 



