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GENUS II. EUMEX. 

 Hexandria Trigynfa. SexiSyst: 



Deriv. A name applied by Pliny to the Sorrel-plant. 



Gen. Chae. Herbs or shrubs, with a thick root-stoct and erect 

 furrowed annual stems, the thin sheathing stipules never fringed 

 on the edge, but soon becoming lacerated or jagged : lower leaves 

 stalked, largish ; flowers small, numerous, often red, usually 

 pedicelled in whorl-like clusters, axillary or in terminal racemes, 

 often branching into panicles : perianth deeply 6-cleft, when in 

 fruit the 3 inner segments become enlarged and close over the 

 triangular nut : styles very short, with fringed stigmas. 



(1) E. "Wallichii. {Meissn.) 

 Ident. Dec. prod. XIV. p. 48. 



Syn. E. acutus, Rocoh. — E. WaUichianus, Meissn. in Wall. pi. 

 As. rar. III. p. 64. 



Spec. Chae. Stem thick, flexuose, divaricately branched, fur- 

 rowed : leaves acute, lower ones oblong, subundulate, subcordate, 

 upper ones flat, narrowed at both ends, uppermost ones linear, 

 spreading : panicle simple : verticils supported by a leaf, dense- 

 flowered, upper ones confluent: pedicels smaller than the small 

 fructiferous calyx, turbinately thickened at the apex : valves ovate, 

 lanceolate-acuminate, acute, all equally calliferous. 



Bengal. Silhet. Oude. 



(2) E. Nepalbnsis. {Spreng.) 

 Ident. Spreng. syst. II. p. 159. — Dec. 1. c. p. 55. 

 Ungrav. "Wight's Icon. 1. 1810. 



Spec. Chab. Divaricately branched: leaves petioled, acute, 

 radical ones oblong, subcordate, with a narrow base, cauline ones 

 ovate-oblong, round and subcordate at the base, uppermost ones 

 lanceolate: verticils remote, dense-flowered, uppermost ones 

 somewhat leafless : pedicels somewhat longer than the largest 

 fructiferous calyx, deflexed : valves ovate-oblong, obtuse, reticu- 

 lated, subulate-fimbriate, one obsoletely calliferous : awls uncinate, 

 scarcely longer than half the length of the valve. 



Neilgherries. Pulney mountains. 



(3) E. DBNTATiTs. (^Gampd.) 



Ident. Campd. Eum. pp. 64 and 81.— Dee. 1. c. p. 56. 

 Spec. Chae. Leaves petioled, somewhat obtuse, lower ones 



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