ECLIPTA. 
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conspicuous. Ach. spreading and deflexed forming a globosely 
stellate head when ripe, dark coffee-brown or blackish, finely 
shagreened and strongly ribbed, obcompressedly subquadran- 
gular, 4 or 5 lines long, scarcely 1 millim. broad, crowned at 
top with 2 opposite or often 3 short erect or spreading stiff' 
sharp hornlike bristles barbed or beset with fine keen hyaline 
aciculate deflexed setules, and thus adhering strongly to and 
penetrating the clothes, rendering the pi. extremely trouble- 
some. Receptacle clothed with caducous oblong chaffs, glo- 
boso-pulvinate or pyramidal. 
It is remarkable that this most universal and abundant Mad. 
weed has not occurred in either Porto S'° or the Desertas. 
It is also strange that the nearly allied and very similar tro- 
pical common weed, K. bipinnata (L.) BFG. xvi. t. 51. f. ii., 
which is not less general in the Cape Verdes than K. pilosa 
(L.), and which has even made its appearance in the South of 
Germany and France (Koch 300 ; Gr. et Godr. ii. 160), has not 
yet found its way into either the Canaries or Mad. 
fTribe XII. Ecliptece. 
+21. Eclipta L. 
fl. E. erecta L. 
St. erect or ascending sparingly branched and with the 1. 
adpressedly strigose, the young shoots hirsute hoary ; 1. elliptic- 
lanceolate acuminate at each end, sessile repandly and irregu- 
larly subserrate ; ped. 1-3 or 4 from the upper axils, length 
of 1. or 2-7 or 8 times the length of the heads. — Linn. “ Mailt. 
286 Lour. FI. Coch. ii. 505 ; Pers. ii. 470 : Spr. Syst. iii. 602 ; 
DC. v. 400. Verbesina alba Linn. Sp. 1272. Cotu/a alba Linn. 
Syst. (ed. 12) ii. 564: Piuken. ! Aim. t. 100. f. 1 ; ejusd. herb, 
in Herb. Sloane, vol. 101. fol. 188 in BH. ; Dill. Elth. i. p. 138, 
t. 113. f. 137. — Herb. ann. Mad. r eg. 1, r. In wet ditches and 
Levadas occasionally in and about Funchal ; ditch at the back 
of the beach to the west of the Fortaleza, Levada de S ia 
Luzia, Ac. Sept.-Dee. — Whole pi. adpressedly hispidulous 
with short w. or grey strigose hairs. St. 12-18 in. high dif- 
fusely erect shortly and sparingly branched, round below, 
squarish and subsucculent upwards, purplish-brown, grey and 
hirsute towards the ends while young. L. rather dull gr. op- 
posite sessile acuminate irregularly repand-serrulate 1^-3 in. 
long, -£-l in. broad, sometimes nearly entire. Ped. slender or 
filiform adpressedly strigoso-hirsute, 1-3 or sometimes more 
together, very unequal in length but mostly ^-1£ in. long. Heads 
