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axillary, sessile or short-peduneled, globosely capituliform, many- 

 headed: involucres turbinate, hairy, glabrous within, lobes tri- 

 ' angular : glands orbiculate, slightly concave, appendage obsolete 

 or very narrow : styles very short, 2-lobed, capitate : shells of 

 the yellowish hairy capsule keeled : seed reddish, sharply oblong- 

 tetragonal, transversely wrinkled : flowers small, greenish. 



A common weed everywhere, flowering all the year. 



(7) E. BEACTEOLAEIS. (BoisS.) 



Ident. Boiss. Cent. Euph, p. 8. — Dec. 1. c. p. 22. 



Spec. Chae. Annual: branched from the neck : stems thinly 

 filiform, erect-spreading, dichotomous, hairyish : leaves thin, 

 short-petioled, beneath pale, slightly hairy, ovate, obtuse, repand 

 at the top : stipules triangular-lanceolate, .very short : cymes 

 axillary and terminal, very shortly peduncled, few-headed, corym- 

 bosely capitate, floral leaves numerous, small: lobes of the turbi- 

 nate involucre lanceolate : glands small, orbiculate, appendage 

 white, roundish, equally broad or narrower : styles 2-cleft, short : 

 shells of the hairy capsule round : seed oblong-tetragonal, partly 

 wrinkled. 



Neilgherries. 



(8) E. Inbioa. {Lam.) 



Ident. Lam. diet. II. p. 423. — Dec. 1. c. p. 22. 



Syn. E. granulata, var. decumhens, MrsJc. — E. decumbens, 

 Willd.—'E. androssemoides, Dennst. — E. hypericifolia, SocJist. — 

 E. cassioides, Presl. 



I^ngrav. Eheede Mai. X. t. 51. 



Spec. Chae. Annual, glauceseent: stems ascending or de- 

 cumbent, puberulous, branchy: leaves sparingly pubemlous, 

 short-petioled, obovate, obtuse, paler beneath, remotely serrulate : 

 stipules bristly ciliated, base dilated : cymes loosely capituliform, 

 axillary, short peduncled, usually supported by a pair of leaves 

 equalling them : involucres turbinate, lobes triangular, slightly 

 fimbriated: glands ovate, appendage ovate-rotund, white, equally 

 broad or narrower: styles short, 2-cleft: shells of the hairy 

 capsule somewhat keeled: seed ovate-tetragonal, transversely 

 wrinkled. ^ 



Peninsula and elsewhere ? 



(9) E. NOTOPTEEA. (JBoiss.) 



Ident. Dee. 1. c. p. 26. 



_ Spec. Chae. Annual, glabrous: stem erect, dichotomous 

 mtemodes very long : leaves short-petioled, very unequal at the 

 base, linear-oblong or linear, obtuse, mucronulate, subrevolute at 

 the margin, remotely serrulate, often deflexed: stipules inter- 



