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(12) B. SANGUiNEA. (Rochst et Steud.) 



Var. KlLAGHIEIOA. 



Ident Hoctst et Steud in ScMmp. pi. Arab.— Dec. 1. c. p. 35. 



Sj/n. B. Nilaghirica, Miq^. Anal. Bot. III. p. 17. 



Spec. Chae. Annual, glabrous, glaucescent : stems ascending, 

 elongated, branched : leaves very unequal at the base, elliptic- 

 rhomboid, somewhat incurved, very obtuse, remotely serrulate : 

 stipules long, subulate from a 2— 3-cleft broader base : involucres 

 solitary, approximated in the uppermost axils : floral leaves Imear- 

 spathulate, intermixed: lobes linear-lanceolate, entire: glands 

 margined with an irregularly and deeply 3— 5-parted rose-coloured 

 appendage : styles 2-cleft, divaricate : shells of the glabrous cap- 

 sule keeled : seed ovate-tetragolial, covered with a few irregular 

 wrinkles. 



Neilgherries. 



(18) E. COCCINEA, (Moth.) 



Ident. Eoth. pj. Ind. p. 228.— Dec. 1. c. p. 37. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial: stems filiform, fragile, procumbent, 

 dichotomously branched, densely covered with white wool : lower 

 internodes elongated: leaves entire, very unequal at the base, 

 obovate, obtuse, hairy above or glabrate, beneath densely covered 

 with white hairs : stipules linear-lanceolate, villous : involucres 

 3 — 4-glomerulate in the upper axils, short pedicelled, intermixed 

 with lesser orbieulate leaves, turbinate, covered with white wool 

 externally, hairy at the throat : lobes oblong, ciliated : glands 

 transversely oblong, appendage purple denticulate : styles erect, 

 longish, 2-cleft : capsulp covered with white wool, depressed, 

 deeply 3-furrowed : shells keeled : seed-oblong- tetragonal, minutely 

 pitted. 



Near Ahmednugger, in the Deccan. 



(14) E. THTMIEOLIA. (Burm.) 



Ident. Burm. flor. Ind. p. 8. — Dec. 1. c. p. 47. 



Syn. E. thymifoUa, var. b. Linn. — Do. Lam. diet. Moxl. flor. 

 Ind. II. p. 473. 



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

 branched, crisply hairy : leaves petioled, somewhat unequal at the 

 base, oblong, obtuse, serrulate-crenulate, glabrous or usually hairy 

 beneath : stipules long lanceolate, fimbriately toothed : involucres 

 axillary, heaped together into very short axillary leafy racemes 

 from the shortness of the internodes, turbinate, deeply cleft : 

 glands stipitate, ovate-rotund, appendage 2 — 3-lobed: styles 2- 

 cleft : capsules very shortly stalked, erect, hairy, obtusely keeled : 



