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flowers, is sometimes called Scheeria lanata 

 and Mandirola lanata. [T. M.] 



ETJCOMIS. A genus of Liliacece, con- 

 sisting of South African bulbs, with broad 

 root-leaves, and a simple raceme of rather 

 large usually greenish flowers, surmounted 

 by a tuft of empty leaf-like bracts, called 

 a coma. The perianth is six-parted and 

 spreading, the stamens inserted in its seg- 

 ments, with the filaments dilated at the 

 base. The capsule is three-winged, the few 

 seeds with a hard black seed-coat. Several 

 handsome half-hardy species are in culti- 

 vation. E. bi folia has only two leaves lying 

 flat on the ground, and a short raceme of 

 pale green flowers. [J. T. S.] 



ETTCOSIA carnea is a terrestrial orchid 

 of Java, with a stem about a span high, 

 bearing four to six ovate leaves, and ter- 

 minating in a downy spike of about three 

 small flesh-coloured flowers, each support- 

 ed by a long narrow bract. The plant has 

 the habit of some Goodyeras, but the in- 

 ternal structure of the flower is quite dif- 

 ferent. The remarkable thing is, that the 

 anther is attached to a filament which 

 grows out quite distinctly from the base of 

 the column, whereas in most orchids the 

 anther has no filament, but rests in a niche 

 at the apex of the column. The plant is 

 beautifully represented by Blume in his 

 splendid folio work on the orchids of the 

 Indian Archipelago. [A. A. B.] 



ETJCRINUM. A subgenus of Fritillaria, 

 proposed by Nuttall to include a few spe- 

 cies which approach to Lilium, but differ 

 from both genera, in having an undivided 

 stigma, and the cup formed by the perianth 

 segments broadly funnel-shaped. The ha- 

 bit is that of Fritillaria. The F. tulipi folia 

 from the Caucasus, and the American F. 

 pudica, belong to this section. [J. T. S.] 



EUCROSIA. A genus of stove bulbs of 

 the order Amaryllidacew. E. bicolor, the 

 only species, a native of S. America, has 

 round bulbs, wide petiolated leaves, and a 

 tapering scape, supporting an umbel of 

 four or more vermilion-coloured flowers, 

 which have an oblique perianth tube, com- 

 pressed recurved limb segments, and a 

 declined cup, abbreviated and rostrate 

 above, and shovel-formed and prolonged 

 below. It comes near Elisena. [T. MJ 



EUCRTPHI A. A genus of the St. John's- 

 wort family, differing from all the other 

 genera except Cratoxylon, in having winged \ 

 seeds, and from the latter genus in its four 

 to five-leaved calyx being thrown off in the 

 form of a cap as the flower expands. The 

 four to five petals are roundish ; the sta- 

 mens numerous and disposed in many 

 series ; and the ovary five to twelve-celled, 

 surmounted with as many styles as there 

 are cells. The fruits are little woody cap- 

 sules. The four known species are oppo- 

 site-leaved trees or shrubs, two found in 

 Tasmania, and two in Chili. E. Billardieri is 

 one of the most beautiful trees of Tas- 

 mania, sometimes growing to sixty or a 

 hundred feet high, and covered in February 



with an abundance of white cistus-like 

 flowers, one to two inches across. These 

 are solitary and stalked in the axils of the 

 narrow obtuse leaves, which are gummy 

 above, and white underneath. E. pinnati- 

 folia, one of the Chilian species, is remark- 

 able in the family, as well as in the genus, 

 for having pinnate leaves, which are made 

 up of two pairs of smooth serrated leaflets, 

 and an odd one ; the single white flowers 

 themselves are a good deal like those of a 

 wild dog-rose, and solitary near the ends 

 of the branches. The name Carpodontos is 

 sometimes given to the Tasmanian species, 

 which differ from the Chilian ones in hav- 

 ing five-celled fruits. [A. A. B.] 



ETJCYCLA. A genus of Polygonacew, 

 allied to Eriogonum, having the plicate 

 coloured perianth salver-shaped, the three 

 outer divisions diverging and orbicular, and 

 the three inner linear oblong, forming a 

 cylinder. The flowers are yellow or pur- 

 ple. The species are natives of the Rocky 

 Mountains. [J. T. S.] 



ETJDESMIA. A handsome Swan River 

 myrtaceous shrub. The branches are four- 

 cornered, with lance-shaped thick leaves ; 

 the flowers red, disposed in umbels, with 

 four-parted stamens, united into four bun- 

 dles ; capsule four-celled. E. tetraaona is 

 in cultivation. [M. T. M.] 



ETJDI ANTHE. A section of Lychnis, com- 

 prising those species which have the calyx 

 tube contracted at the top. The pretty 

 lilac-flowered L'. Cwli-rosa, which is often 

 cultivated as an ornamental annual, under 

 the name of Viscaria, belongs to this sec- 

 tion. [J. T. S.] 



EUDOXIA. Peruvian herbs belonging to 

 Gentianacece, with large handsome drooping 

 flowers, in a terminal panicle. They have 

 a bell-shaped membranous calyx ; a bell- 

 shaped five-cleft corolla, having the seg- 

 ments convolute before expansion ; and 

 the filaments of the stamens are channelled 

 on the inner surface. Ovary two-celled, 

 two-valved ; stigma sessile, with two di- 

 lated revolute segments. [M. T. M.] 



ETJFRAGIA. A genus separated from 

 Bartsia mainly on account of the structure 

 of its seeds, which are 'slightly angular, 

 very minute, crenate-ribbed, the hilum 

 basal.' E. viscosa, an erect unbranched 

 annual with viscid foliage and yellow 

 flowers, not uncommon in marshy ground 

 in the west of England and some parts of 

 Ireland and Scotland, is the same as 

 Bartsia viscosa. [C. A. J.] 



EUPRAISE. (Fr.) Euphrasia officinalis. 



EUGENIA. A genus of Myrtacea?, com- 

 prising several trees or shrubs, for the most 

 part natives of tropical America and the 

 West Indies. The flowers are placed in the 

 axils of the leaves, white, with a four-part- 

 ed calyx, four petals, and numerous sta- 

 mens. The berry is crowned by the calyx, 

 one or two-celled, and contains one or two 

 seeds. 



The most important species is E. Pimento, 



