203 



flowers, longer pedicelled : ovary ovate, base embraced by the 

 3-lobed calyx. 



ITeilgherries, on the banks of streams and other moist ground. 



(3) E. IINEOLATrM. (B. W.) 



Ident. "Wight's Icon. 1. c. t. 1984. 



Spec. Chae. Dioecious, herbaceous or sufiruticose, erect, 

 branched, glabrous : leaves sessile, unequal- sided, abruptly acumi- 

 nate, vFith a few serratures on the convex edge, coriaceous, gla- 

 brous on both sides, marked above with numerous thick lineoles, 

 pellucid-dotted : male receptacles deeply 2-lobed, membranous : 

 flowers numerous, each at first embraced by a membranous invo- 

 lucre, afterwards by the elongation of the pedicel, exserted: calyx 

 4-parted : stamens 4, involute in aestivation. 



iN'eilgherries. Malabar. . 



(4) E. ovATm. {B. W.) 



Ident. "Wight's Icon. 1. c. t. 1985. 



Spec. Chae. Herbaceous, dioecious or polygamous, erect, 

 sparingly branched : leaves opposite, unequal-sized, ovate, acute, 

 serrated, short-petioled, pubescent, and sprinkled with stronger 

 bristles above, glabrous, except on the veins beneath, 3-nerved, 

 the lateral pair very slender : receptacles axillary, fleshy, pedi- 

 celled : fructiferous flowers short-pedicelled, mixed with numerous 

 longer-pedicelled imperfect ones : calyx 4-cleft : male plant 

 like the female, but longer : receptacle with total absence of female 

 flowers. 



Neilgherries, in wet soil. 



(5) E. OPPOSiTiroLiTJM. {Dale.) 



Ident. Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. III. p. 179.— Bomb, 

 flor. 239. 



Spec. Chae. Herbaceous : stem simple, smooth, naked at the 

 base : leaves rather long petioled, opposite, lanceolate-acuminate, 

 coarsely dentate-serrate, 3-nerved, sparingly hairy above, quite 

 smooth beneath, upper ones the largest : heads of flowers solitary, 

 peduncled, in the alternate axils : peduncles shorter than the 

 petiole : common receptacle flat, discoid, simple : male and female 

 flowers mixed. 



"Western Ghauts, flowering in September. 



