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Spec. Char. E. foliis ellipticis integerrimis revolutis supra scabris subtus pubescentibus, floris umbelatis, fructu villoso.
Leaves elliptical, entire, revolute, rough above, downy beneath. Flowers in umbels. Fruit downy.
THIS, like the preceding species, is hitherto a stranger to our gardens. In its native country it flowers about November.
Root knobbed and woody. Stem much branched, three or four feet high; the branches round, clothed with harsh down, and thickly covered with very numerous alternate solitary leaves, about the size of those of box, almost sessile, elliptical, with a little sharp point, entire, revolute, but destitute of the lateral nerves observable in E. sericeum, veiny, dark green, very rough
