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Bentate, glatrous : panicle many-headed, dtv;iricated : involiicral 

 scales linear-oblong, obtuse, glabrous : achxuia sparingly muri- 

 cated. 



Silhet. 



GENUS X. EUPATOEIUM. 

 Syn. Pol. JSqualla. Sex .- Syii: 



Deriv. Named after Eupator, king of Pontus, who is said to 

 have first' used the plant in medicine as a counter-poison. 



*" Gen. Char. Capitijla many-flowered : receptacle smooth, naked: 

 ibvolucrul scales 1—2 or many serial, equal or unequal, loosely or 

 firmly imbricated : orifice of the corolla scarcely dilated : anther's 

 included: divisions of the style exserted, cylindrjc, obtuse.— Herbs 

 or under-shrubs : leaves ttsually opposite, rarely alternate or verti- 

 citlate : heads of {lowers mostly corymbose or panicled. 



(1) E. PUNDUANUM. (Wall.) 



Ident. Wall. Cat. No. 3170.— Deo. prod. V. p. 179. 



Spec Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, branched, pubescently- 

 velvety : leaves scarcely petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, sharply 

 serrated from the midtUe, downy on both sides, somewhat 3-nerved : 

 branches somewhat arranged in a panicle, almost naked and closely 

 coirymbose at the apex : capitula' 4-flowered : involucral scales gla- 

 brous, 5-7, oblong-linear, obtuse. 



Pundsa in Silhet. ' * 



(2) E. NoniFiORUM. {Wall.) 



Jdent. Wall. Cat. No. 3166.— Dec. prod. V. p. 179. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, hirsute : leaves sessile, 



oblong-lanceolate, mucronately acute, coarsely serrated, sparingly 



downy, his))id on the nerves below : corymb composite, closely 



.packed: capitula 4-floW€red» congested towards to the ^ops of the 



branches: involucral scales 5-6, unequal, pubescent at the back. 



Silhet mountains. ' > ■' 



(3) E. pivEBOENs. {Roxh.) 

 Ident. Hoxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 414.— Dah. Bomb. flor. p. 123. 

 Syn. Decanenrum divergens, Wighfs Contrib, p. 8. — Bee. prod. 

 V. p. 68. ' 



• Erigrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1084. 



Spec Char. Shrub, 6-8 feet: branches diverging: leaves 

 short-petioled, elliptic, recurved, serrato-dentate, rngose, downy 

 when young, scabrous when old, 1^ inches long : corymbs ter- 



