119 



(21) E. TEIGONA, (Saw.) 



Ident. Haw. pi. succ. p. 127. — Dec. 1. c. p. 82. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1863. 



Spec. Cha.e. Shrubby, 3-comered, faces channelled ; branchen 

 erect, strangulate, angles' compressed, lobately toothed : leaves 

 obovate, obtuse, inucronate, much attenuated at the base : prickles 

 short and thick : cymes solitary in the sinuses of the angles, very 

 shortly peduncled, 3-headed: leaves under the inyolucre ovate, 

 minute : lobes of the hemispherical involucre broad-ovate, fim- 

 briated: styles united, undivided, perceptibly thickened at the 

 top. 



Common in stony places at Coimbatore. 



(22) E. Cattimanboo. {W. Mliott.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 83. 



Bngrm. "Wight's Icon. t. 1993, 



Spec. Chae. Shrub or small tree, sharply pentagonal, deeply 

 furrowed between the ribs, angles flattened, repandly toothed: 

 prickles thin, divergent: leaves sessile, cuneate-obovate, cuspi- 

 date \ cymes 3 — 7-headed, frequent : leaflets at the fork and under 

 the involucres ovate-mucronate : lobes of the hemispherical invo- 

 lucre ovate, fimbriated ; styles long-united, undivided, not thick- 

 ened at the apex : capsule deeply 3-furrowed, calyculate, shells 

 laterally somewhat compressed, keeled, leaves of the calyculus 

 acute. 



Near Vizagapatam, flowering after the fall of the leaf. 



(23) E. AOATOis. {Boxb) 



Bent. Eoxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 472.— Dec. 1. c. p. 93. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial: rhizome tuberous, cylindric, fre- 

 quently, scarred at the apex : leaves sessile from the top of the 

 fleshy rhizome, cuneiform, crenulate, dentate : peduncles termi- 

 nal, 2 — 3 times dichotomous from the base : leaflets at the divi- 

 sions white-membranaceous, ovate, truncated, mucronulate, upper- 

 most ones remote from the involucre : involucres in the divisions 

 and terminal, peduncles hemispherical, pedicelled, with spathulate, 

 truncated, fimbriated pectinate lobes : glands transversely and 

 narrow-oblong : capsule long-stalked, depressed, deeply 3- 

 furrowed: shells laterally somewhat compressed, keeled: seed 

 globose, smooth. 



Bengal. Bababoodeu hills, in Malabar. 



