120 



(24) E. Khastana, (Soiss.) 



Ident, Dec. 1. c. p. 120. 



Spec.Chae. Perennial, glabrous : stem erect, striated, branch- 

 ing above : umbel 4 — 5-rayed, rays 3 — 5-cleft, bifid : leaves entire, 

 sessile, and long-attenuated at the base, oblong-linear, acute, 

 thickish, umbellary ones elliptic, floral ones ternate, narrowed at 

 the base, ovate, mucronulate : involucres turbinate : lobes ovate, 

 hairy: glands transversely 'oblong: styles obscurely 2-lobed: 

 capsule globosely depressed, beset with hemispherical warts : 

 seeds subglobose, obscurely raised and pointed i wart much 

 depressed. 



Khasya. 



(25) E. PELTATA. (Itoxb.) 



Ident. Eoxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 474.— Dec. 1. e. p. 137. " 



Spec. Chae. Annual, glabrous : stem erect, branched : rays 

 of the umbel 5, long, 3 — 4-cleft, afterwards 2-clef't : leaves sessile, 

 attenuated at the base, oblong-lanceolate, acute, serrulate, floral 

 ones oblong : lobes of the campanulate involucre lanceolate, ob- 

 tuse, exceeding the glands : glands stalked, transversely oblong : 

 capsule somewhat spherical, 3-furrowed : shells rounded. 



Coromandel. 



' (26) E. DEACTJNcrijOiDES. {Lam.) 



Ident. Lam. diet. II. p. 428.— Dec. 1. c. p. 139. 



Syn. E. lanceolata, Bottl. in Spreng. syst. III. p. 791. — Both, 

 pi. Ind. p. 229. 



Engrav. Boiss. Ic. t. 91. 



Spec. Chae. Annual, usually many-stemmed ; stems erect, 

 leafy, from straightly branched axils : rays of the umbel 2 — 3, 

 elongated, many times dichotomous : leaves narrowly linear-lan- 

 ceolate, acutish, attenuated at the base, floral ones abbreviated, 

 lanceolate from a broader base : lobes of the turbinate involucre 

 ovate, denticulate-ciliate : glands semilunate, transversely broader, 

 horns of equal length, or shorter than the breadth of the glands : 

 styles free, short, 2-cleft : capsule depressed, deeply S-furrowed : 

 seed oblong, blackish, leprous with whitish tubercles, often meet- 

 ing in lines at the base. 



Bengal. Madras. Concan. 



