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petiolar, broad, very short: involucres campanulate, terminal, 

 solitary, or ternate, pedicellate, supported by linear acute floral 

 leaves longer than them, lobes ovate, pectinately fimbriated: 

 glands transversely oblong, appendage broader, somewhat repand 

 at the margin : styles 2-cleft : shells of the globosely depressed 

 capsule narrowly 2-winged at the back, wrinkled : seed ovate- 

 quadrangular, densely tubercled. 



Bombay. Canara. Mysore. Malabar. 



(10) E. SEB3?ENS. {Kimth.) 

 Tar. Indica. 

 Ideni. Dec. 1. c. p. 29—30. 



Syn. -E. microphylla. Both. — E. Heyneana, Bpreng. — E. orbi- 

 culata, Miquel. 



Spec. Chae. Annual, glabrous: stems filiform, prostrate, 

 branchy : leaves unequal at the base, retuse, often obscurely 

 denticulate at the apex: stipules truncated, often 2-parted or 

 deeply torn: involucres solitary in the uppermost axils, but 

 approximated from the shortness of the internodes : appendages 

 of the glands often very narrow : shells of the capsule sharply 

 keeled : seed ovate-tetragonal, undulated with 2 — 3 very obscure 

 wrinkles. 



Bengal. Madras. 



(11) E. OOEEIGIOLOIBES. (BoisS.) 



Ident. Boiss. Cent. Euph. p. 11. — Dec. 1. e. p. 32. 



Spec. Chae. . Perennial, glaucescent : stems with a thickish 

 rhizome, prostrate, elongated, sparingly branched, roughish or 

 glabrate : leaves subsessile, remotish, very unequal at the base, 

 subrotund or oblong, very obtuse, sharply serrulate, above often 

 red-spotted, glabrous, or beneath rough with short hairs : stipules 

 interpetiolar, short, triangular, fimbriated : cymes densely many- 

 headed, subsessile, aggregate and terminal in the uppermost axils : 

 leaflets minute, lanceolate, dentate, intermixed : involucres small, 

 turbinate, glabrous or slightly hairy : lobes long, deeply palmati- 

 partite : glands transversely ovate, appendage broader than them, 

 obsoletely lobed: capsule slightly hairy: shells keeled; styles 

 long, deeply 2-cleft, subelavate at the top : seed ovate-subte- 

 tragonal, smooth, strongly dotted. 



Concan. Mysore and Carnatic. Madras. 



