(48. - 50. E. vrgata agg.)

Erect, glabrous, somewhat glaucous perennial herbs up to 140 cm tall, but more usually 30-70 cm tall, with several stems arising from a vertical, oblique or ± horizontal rootstock. Stem-leaves alternate, sessile, subsessile or very shortly-petiolate; leaf-blades from linear to linear-lanceolate, linear-oblong or ovate- lanceolate, broadest below the middle or else ± parallel-sided, 1-7 (-11) cm x 2-7 (-13) mm, acute, subacute or obtuse at the apex, abruptly attenuate, cuneate, rounded or shallowly cordate at the base, entire or subentire, obscurely palmi- and penninerved. Pseudumbel 5-, 8-, 10-, 12-, 16- or 20-rayed, the rays not or once bifid, usually with several axillary rays below the pseudumbel, and usually with a number of axillary leafy-shoots arising below these; pseudumbel leaves 5, 8, 10, 12, 16 or 20, whorled, resembling the upper stem-leaves but usually rather shorter and broader; ray-leaves opposite, transversely elliptic, reniform, deltoid, ovate-rhombic or suborbicular, shorter and broader than the pseudumbel-leaves. Cyathia senile or subsessile, the one terminating the main axis usually pedunculate, broadly campanulate. Glands crescentic, with the horns broad and triangular or narrow and subulate, divergent or convergent, yellowish.ochreous. Fruit rounded-trilobate, (3-) 4-5 x (4-) 5-6 mm, granulate on the keels, otherwise smooth, pale green. Styles at first erect, later divaricate, (1) 1.5-2 mm long, united for 1/3 their length, bifid, the stigmas slightly thickened. Seeds ovoid, 2.5 x 1.5 x 13 mm, smooth, pale grey, sometimes brownish-flecked, with a small subterminal depressed-conical ventrally excavate caruncle.

Pakistani material referable to this aggregate has been ascribed to several members of it, notably the following: