117 



seed reddish, oblong-tetragonal, transversely 4 — 5-furrowed ; 

 flowers-greenish. 



Peninsula, flowering all the year. 



(15) E. BOSBA. {Befz.) 



Ident. Eetz. obs. IV. p. 26.— Dee. 1. c. p. 50. 

 Syn. E. parviflora, Lam. diet. — E. satureioides, do. 

 Ungrav. Boiss. Cent. Euph. t. 21. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial : stems prostrate, geniculate, dichoto- 

 mously branched, hairy : internodes long, of the floral branchlets 

 very short : leaves glaucescent, thickish, very unequal at the base, 

 obovate, obtuse, minutely crenulate at the top, rameous ones 

 heaped together, somewhat distichous, linear-spathulate, entire or 

 3 — 5-denticulate, with a somewhat truncated apex : stipules tri- 

 angular, fimbriated: involucres terminal, 1 — 2, usually 3 — 7, 

 corymbulose, campanulately turbinate, lobes ovate, -3 — 5-cleft; 

 glands suborbiculate, appendage 6 times larger, semi-ovate rhom- 

 boid: styles long, united at the middle, 2-cleft, somewhat thick- 

 ened at the top : capsule minutely tubercled : shells somewhat 

 keeled : seed ovate-tetragonal, acute, irregularly and coarsely 

 pitted and wrinkled. 



Tranquebar. Carnatic. Near Madras. 



(16) E. EETTHEOCIABA. (BoisS.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 25. 



Spec. Chab. Annual, glabrous: stem erect, alternately and 

 dichotomously much branched, straight, red; internodes long; 

 leaves very shortly petioled, oblong or oblong-spathulate from a 

 very unequal rounded base," very obtuse, serrulate : stipules 

 scarcely perspicuous ; involucres axillary, supported by a pedicel, 

 solitary, turbinate, reddish, white- velvety within : lobes very short, 

 triangular, ciliated : glands transversely ovate, appendage some- 

 what narrower, rose coloured, slightly eroded; styles very short, 

 2-cleft: shells of the depressed capsule sharply keeled: seed 

 ovate-tetragonal, obsoletely beset with 2 — 3 transverse wrinkles. 



Deccan; 



(17) E. NEBEiFOiiiA. {Linn.) 



Ident. Linn. Hort, Cliff, p. 196.— Dec. 1. c. p. 79. 



Syn. E. ligularia, Boxl.Jlor. Ind. II. p. 465, 



Spec. Chab. Small tree: branches obsoletely pentagonal, 

 prickles stipular, short, diverging, black : leaves obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, mucronulate, attenuated into a short petiole: c;^mes 

 sessile or subsessile in the upper axils, 1— 3-headed, rarely dicho- 

 tomously several-headed : leaflets under the involucre ovate, mem- 

 branaceous: involucre hemispherical: lobes large, ovate, erect. 



