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Enhydra, Lour. 



1. E. FLrcTUANS, LoiTr. Fl. Coch. II. .625 ; DC. Prod. V. 637. {E. 

 Selonclia, DC. Prod. V. 637 ; Clark. Comp. Ind. 133 ; JS. paludosa, DC. 

 1. c. ; Bth. Fl. Austr. IV. 546 ; E. longifolia, DC. 1. c. ; Hinrjtsha repens, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 448). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in swamps and swamjiy grass-lands of the cul- 

 tivated plains of Pegu and Arracan, and probably all over the country ; also 

 Ava, Bhamo.— Fl. Fr. CS. 



E dipt a, L. 



1. E. ALBA, Hassk. PL Jav. rar. 528 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 11. 65 ; 

 Bth. FL Hongk. 181 and FL Austr. IV. 536 ; Clark. Comp. Ind. 134. {E. 

 erecta, L. Mant. 286 ; DC. Prod. V. 490 ; Verhesina alha, L. sp. pi. 1272 ; 

 E. longifolia, Schrad. ap. DC. Prod. V. 490). 



Var. a. ebecta, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. 11. 65 ; Clark. 1. c. ; more or less 

 erect and appressed hispid ; peduncles elongate, f — 2 in. long. 



Var. )8. PEOSTEATA, Miq. 1. c. ; Clark 1. c. {E. prostrata, L. Mant. 286; 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 438 ; DC. Prod V. 490 ; E.parviflora, Wall. in. DC. 1. c. ; 

 E. tliermalis, Bung. Enum. PL Chin. bor. No. 224 ; DC. 1. c. ; E. pro- 

 cumhens, Michx. Flor. Bor. Amer. II. 129 ; DC. 1. c. 491 ; E. hrachypoda, 

 Mchx. 1. c. 130 ; DC. 1. c. 491), more or less prostrate, appressed hirsute ; 

 flower-heads shortly peduncled. 



Var. y. Zippeliana, Miq. 1. c. ; Clark. 1. c. (E. Zlppeliana, Bl. Bydr. 

 914 ; DC. Prod. V. 490 ; ^. Amii2^«, BartL in Linn. XIII. Litt. Ber. 95), 

 erect or spreading, more robust in all parts, spreadingly hirsute ; flower- 

 heads shortly petioled. 



Hab. Var. a. and ^. common in waste and in cultivated lands, along 

 roadsides, ruined pagodas, etc., not only in the leaf -shedding forests, but more 

 so in the cultivated plains, all over Burma, from Chittagong and Ava down 

 to Tenasserim; also on the Andamans (here introduced, but rapidly spread- 

 ing) ; var. y. along the banks of the Irawaddi in the Prome District. — Fl. 

 Fr. C. and H. S. 



Wedelia, Jacq. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



* Some of the outer involucral bracts more leaf-UTce and longer than the others. 



Pappus cup-shaped. 

 Flower-heads on very elongate peduncles, always solitary ; leaves oblong to lanceolate, 



almost sessile or narrowed into a short petiole, W. calendulacea. 



Flower-heads rather short-peduncled, usually by pairs or few, axillary, terminal and in 

 the fork of the branchings ; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, slenderly petioled, 



. . W. urticifoUa. 



* * Outer involucre-bracts not longer than the inner ones. Pappus none or of 



2 or 1 deciduous bristles. Floiver-heads longer or shorter peduncled^ by 2 — 3 

 or few f axillary y terminal, and in the branch-f or kings. 



