131 



(27) E. EoTHiANA. (^Sp-enj.) 



Ident. Spreng. syst. III. p. 796.— Dec. 1. c. p. 156. 



Syn. E. glauca, Boxh. flor. Ind. II. p. 473. — E. laeta, RotJi. 

 pi. Ind. p. 230. 



Gen. Chae. Annual, glabrous, glaucescent: stem erect, 

 striated, branched : rays of the umbel in threes, twice 2-cleft : 

 leaves entire, long, narrow, linear, acutish, scarcely attenuated at 

 the base, of the umbel short, lanceolate, floral ones ovate-triangu- 

 lar, often sinuately trilobed, broad : involucre campanulate : lobes 

 oblong, denticulately torn : glands transversely broader, often 

 irregularly pectinately toothed between the short broad horns : 

 filaments hairy : capsule ovate-depressed, 3-furrowed, sparingly 

 hairy : seed lavender-colour, ovate. 



Concan. Bombay. Bundelcund. 



(28) E. OBEOPHILA. {Miq.) 



Ident. Miq. Anal. Bot. III. p. 17.— Dec. 1. c. p.i 156. 



Spec. Chae. Annual or perennial: stem erect, striated, 

 branched: branches twiggy, leafy, often exceeding the central 

 umbel : rays of the umbel 5 — 8, long, twice or three times 2-cleft : 

 leaves entire, alternate at the base, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, mu- 

 cronulate, somewhat revolute at the margin, umbeUary ones lan- 

 ceolate, floral ones cordate at the base, triangular-ovate, acute : 

 lobes of the involucre ovate, 2-lobed, ciliated : glands often in- 

 creased between the horns with a small tooth : filaments hairy : 

 capsule ovate, depressed : seed ovate, marbled : wart depressed and 

 beaked. 



Mountains of Southern India. Malabar. Concan. Mysore. 

 Carnatia. 



Var, a. puBESCENS, — Leaves and pedicels of the capsule pubes- 

 cent. 

 Canara. 



Var b. "WiaHTiANA. — Taller: stems thicker, angled: leaves 

 firmer, broader. — E. Eothiana, Wight Icon. t. 1864 (not Spreng.). 

 — E. Wightiana, Bois. Cent. JSuph. p. 37, 



Neilgherry hills. 



GENUS II. ACTEPHILA. 



RIonoecta Hexandrla. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. From Acte, a height, and PMlos, partial to. 



Gen. Chab. Segments of the male calyx imbricated : petals 



equal in number to the calycine segments, alternating : stamens 



inserted round the base of the rudiment of an ovary: anthers 



opening by two slits, cells adnata lengthwise : cells of- the ovary 



