60 
Engrav. Wight's Ill. I. t. 25.—Hook. Bot. Misc. IIT. t. 28, 
Spec. Cuar. Annual: stems branched, erect, or with the lower 
branches procumbent, usually rough with hairs, but sometimes gla- 
brous: leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, sharply serrated: flowers 
pedicellate, agpregate in the axils of the leaves: sepals, petals and 
stamens equal in number: flowers very small, rose-coloured. 
' Banks of rivers and rice fields all over India, flowering in the 
Yainy season. 
(4) E. zstivosa. (W.§ A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 41. 
Syn. Spergula estivosa, Koen. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 222. 
Svec. Cuan. Stems much branched, glabrous: leaves obovate 
or oblong, those on the flower-bearing branches almost linear: 
flowers pedicellate, axillary, opposite, solitary: sepals and petals 
5: stamens 10. 
Peninsula, 
(5) E. oporata. (Edge. ) 
Ident. Edgeworth in Hook. Jour. Bot. II. p. 283,—Dalz. 
Bomb. flor. p. 14. 
Spec. Car. Pubescent: branches decumbent: leaves oblong, 
sessile, serrated: cymes axillary, few-flowered: petals and sepals 
5: stamens 10; flowers pink. 
Guzerat. 
ORDER XVIII. CARYOPHYLLACEZ. 
Herbaceous plants, occasionally becoming suffrutescent: leaves 
opposite, entire, often connate at the base: sepals 4-5, distinct, 
or cohering in a tube, persistent: petals 45, unguiculate, often 
split into two parts, occasionally deficient: stamens usually 
twice as many as the petals, or if equal, alternate with them, 
hypogynous: filaments sometimes monadelphous, subulate: an- 
thers 2-celled, erect, opening lengthwise: ovary single, consist- 
ing of 2-5 united carpels, often stalked : stigmas 2-5, sessile, 
filiform, papillose inside: capsule 2-5-valved, 1-celled: placen- 
te axillary: seeds indefinite: albumen mealy. 
