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OENUS XXXII. ECLIPTA. 

 Syn. Pol. Superilua. Sex: Sysl: 



Derw. From Ekleipo, to be deficient; the seed, crown andi 

 w^ngs are wanting. 



' Gen. Char. Capitula many-flowered, heterogamous : florets of 

 the ray 1 -series, female, shortly liprulate, of the disk tubular, 4-- 

 tdbtfaed: adisenia of the ray triangular, of the disk compressed, tu-- 

 berculated on the sides. — Herbacetms plants with opposite leaves, 

 and solitary axillary peduncles : involucre 2-series, seaiks 10— i2 : 

 receptacle flat, covered with lanceolate palese. 



(1) E. ERECTA. (Linn.) 



Jdent.. JisQ. prod. V. p. 490.— Wight's Contrib, p. 17. 

 Syn^ Verbesina alba, Linn — Cotula alba, Z««m.— Mierelian* 

 asteroides, Farsk^ — ^Eclipta appressa, Moench. 



Engrav. Rumph. Amb. Vl. p. 18. fig. 1.— Pluk. Aim. t. ]09» 

 f.l. 



Spec. Char, Stem erect, with adpressed hairs ; leaves oblongs 

 lanceolate, acuminate at both ends : capitule five times longer than 

 the solitary or twin pedleels : flawers" white. 



In grassy, damp, or clayey soils, flowering nearly all the year. 

 Dr. Roxburgh says, " Verbesina prostrata and alba, and I suspect 

 Eclipta erecta, punctata and prosiraia, are only one and the same 

 species, or at most but accidental varieties from age, soil, and 

 situation, 



(2) E. PARVIFLORA. {Wail.) 



Idem. Dec. prod. V. t. 490. 



^jBEC. Char. Stem prostrate,, with adpressed bairs ; leaves ob^ 

 long-lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, sub-entire, somiewhat 

 scabrous : peduncles scarcely twice as long as the capitule. 



Very common in moist places. This has the habit of E. prosiraia 

 aniJbei leaves of E. ,erecta, but is different from both ip its rooting 

 stems. Almost all the species of the genus throw out roots in a 

 wet soil, from near the bottom of the stemg. The shape of the 

 leaves is very inconstant. 



GENUS XXXIII. BLAINVILLEA. 



Syn. Pol. Suiierfltia. Sex: Systt 



Gen. Char. Capitula beterogamous : florets of the ray few, 1- 

 serifs, expandii^, into a broad short irregularly 3-cleft ligulae, of 

 the disk tubular, 5-cleft ; style of the disk included : achjenium of 



