Ue 
Ebermatera.] CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 397 
petiole 0-4 in. Heads 2-8-fld.; bracts 1 in.; bracteoles 4 in., narrowly obovate- 
oblong. Sepals 4, linear, subobtuse, viscidly pubescent; the fifth slightly longer, 
oblong, obtuse. Corolla blueish with dark veins. Ovary minutely pubescent up- 
wards ; one stigma-lobe oblong, the other bifid.— Easily separated from Z. glauca by 
its habit, opposite leaves and large flowers. 
5. E. zeylanica, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 74; trailing branches pubes- 
cent, leaves elliptic subobtuse narrowed at the base, spikes cylindrie, bracts 
obovate slightly longer than the flowers, corolla 4—4 in. T. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 451, excl. syn. E. glauca, T. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 224, 
not in Nees. Erythracanthus elongatus, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 184, not 
of Nees. 
W. DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON; Concan, Daizell, Stocks, &e. CEYLON; 
Macrae, Thwaites. 
Stem erect, short, with large leaves, and flowering runners with much smaller 
leaves. Leaves 3 by 1 in., subentire, sparsely hairy on both surfaces, or glabrate with 
nerves beneath pubescent ; petiole 4 in., or in the leaves of the lateral branches 0. 
Spikes 1-2 in., dense ; bracts À by 4 in., obtuse, apiculate, strongly l-nerved ; brac- 
teoles 4 in., linear-spathulate. Sepals 4, linear, rather shorter than the bracts; the 
fifth rather broader, linear, subacute. Corolla, stamens, and capsule nearly as of E. 
glauca. 
6. E. thyrsoidea, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 80, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 75; stem erect hairy, leaves petioled elliptic-spathulate subobtuse, 
spikes cylindric thyrsoid, bracts oblong very acute scarcely longer than the 
flowers, corolla lin. Wall. Cat. 7149. E. zeylanica, T. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 451, partly, E. diffusa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 
74. Capraria diffusa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 93, fide Kurz. 
East FRONTIER from Cachar, Keenan, to Tenasserim, Beddome ; plentiful in 
Chittagong, J. D. H., &c. . 
Stem 8-18 in., decumbent at the very base, then erect, longer than the ascending 
branches. Leaves 3 by 3 in. hairy. Spikes axillary and terminal 1-4 in. ; pedicels 
of the lower flowers Y5-i n.; bracteoles with fine hairs often 3-4 in. long. Sepals 4, 
subsimilar, linear, with fine long hairs; the fifth longer, narrowly lanceolate, twice as 
broad. Corolla (at least often) white or very nearly so. Otherwise as E. zeylanica, 
with which T. Anderson united this species; but it appears amply distinct. 
7. E. incana, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 147; stem short suberect scarcely 
branched, leaves petioled elliptic shortly softly hairy on both surfaces, spikes 
cylindric, bracts lanceolate shorter than the calyx not aristate, corolla $ in. 
E. velutina, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 76; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 
459. 
Mercuri; Griffith. TENASSERIM (or Andamans), Helfer (Kew Distrib. n. 6080). 
—Disrris, Java? . . 
Stem decumbent, base almost woody, then erect, 3-4 in., closely rusty-villous. 
Leaves 4, by 14 in., obtuse, base narrowed, subentire ; petiole ]-1 in. Spikes 1-1} in., 
dense; bracts i in.; bracteoles 2 in., broadly lanceolate, closely softly hairy. Sepals, 
two 2 in. linear, two nearly 4 in. linear, one l in. lanceolate ; all slightly pubescent 
and ciliate. Corolla and stamens nearly as in E. glutinosa. Capsule i in.—Nees 
Says that this is nearly the same as Æ. incana, Hassk., of which I have seen no specimen ; 
and Kurz says (Journ. As. Soc. 1870, pt. ii. 78) that it is quite the same. By habit, 
bracts and indumentum it approaches E. macrophylla, T. Anders. 
; d 
8. E. lanceolata, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 147; stems short branche 
Suberect, leaves oblong or narrowly elliptic cuneate at both ends glabrate 
or minutely pubescent beneath, spikes cylindric dense, ‘bracts oblong acute 
