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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
pappus none. — Distrib. Six species, one cosmopolitan, tropical and 
sub-tropical, the others South American and African. 
Siegesbeckia orient alis, Linn. Sp. PI. 900. An erect annual, 
1 to 3 feet high, branching, the lower branches opposite, everywhere 
clothed with pubescence, often glandular and crisped. Leaves mem- 
branous, opposite, the lower ovate sub-rhomboid, the upper ovate- 
lanceolate, dentate or crenate, passing into linear-lanceolate, and 
sometimes entire ; all euneate at the base ; both surfaces olivaceous 
when dry ; the upper scabrid, hispid ; the lower more softly hairy ; 
main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, curved, spreading ; length 1 to 4 in. ; 
petioles very short or absent. Involucre with the outer bracts longer 
than the inner. Cypselas black, the outer enclosed in the glandular 
involucral bracts. Boiss. PI. Orient. III. 250; DC. Prod. V. 495; 
Wight Ic. 1103 ; Wall. Cat. 3182 ; Hook. fil. El. Br. Ind. III. 304 ; 
Prain Bengal Plants, 607. S. glutinosa, Wall. Cat. 3182. S. brachiata 
and S. orientalis, Boxb. El. Ind. III. 432. Minyrantlies lieterophylla, 
'Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Misc. 1851, I. 181. 
In all the provinces, near habitations. 
15. Eclipta, Linn. 
Strigose or hirsute annuals. Leaves opposite. Heads small, axillary 
-or terminal, pedunculate, heterogamous, rayed. Bay-florets ? , sub- 
2-seriate, fertile or sterile, ligulate, small, entire or bifid, white rarely 
yellow. Dish-florets <? , fertile, tubular, 4-5-fid. Involucre hemispheric 
■or broadly campanulate ; its bracts sub-2-seriate, herbaceous, the outer 
large and broad ; receptacle flat or nearly so, the outer pales enclosing 
several florets ; the inner ones narrow, sometimes absent. Anthers 
with obtuse, almost entire, bases. Style-arms flattened, with short 
triangular or obtuse appendages. Cypselas of the ray narrow, tri- 
quetrous, sometimes barren ; those of the disk stouter, somewhat 
compressed laterally, the apex entire, toothed or 2-aristate. — Distrib. 
'7 species in South America and Australia, and 1 cosmopolitan in the 
tropics. 
Eclipta erecta, Linn. Mant. II. 266. An erect or diffuse branched 
slender herb, hirsute or strigillose. Leaves variable in form and size, 
sessile or with very short petioles ; linear, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly 
■elliptic ; narrowed at both ends ; main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, spreading, 
faint ; length 1 to 4 in. ; breadth -2 to ‘5 in. Heads ‘3 to - 4 in. 
in diam., solitary or in pairs from the leaf-axils; the peduncles '25 
to P5 in. long, when in pairs always unequal. Involucral bracts 
•equal to or longer than the flowers, unequal, ovate or obovate, apiculate. 
Cypselas scabrid, without pappus. ' Clarke Comp. Ind. 134 ; Hook. 
