Eranthemum.] ^ crx. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 499 
An undershrub, 4 ft. high. Leaves 53 by 1] in., acuminate, base cuneate, obscurely 
or obsoletely lineolate; nerves 5-6 pair, much curved, usually crispedly pubescent 
when young; petiole 3 in. Spikes 2-5 in., fuscous-puberulous, few- or little-branched, 
never forming a lax panicle; bracts y; in.; lower pedicels very short. Flowers and 
fruits very nearly as of E. palatiferum. Young capsule sometimes sparsely pilose, 
soon glabrous. —This plant seems plentiful at Malacca, and probably occurs in the 
Malay Isles, but does not exactly agree with any Malay species at Kew, nor with the 
descriptions of the Dutch botanists. It may (ex descr.) possibly be E. punctatum, 
Nees in DC. Prodr, xi. 455. 
7. E. Andersoni, Masters in Gard. Chron. 1869 ; leaves large lan- 
ceolate acute at both ends glabrous, spike very long linear flower-clusters 
whorled below, bracts and calyces glabrous or puberulous, corolla-tube 
13-13 in. Bot. Mag. t. 5771. E. elegans, Masters l. c. 1868, p. 1234, not 
of Br. E. Blumei, Teijs.? Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 836; T. Anders. Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 523; Kurz in Flora 1870, 363. 
SINGAPORE; T. Anderson.—D1sTR1B. Malaya. . 
Upper leaves 5 by 14 in.; petiole $ in. Spike (coming into flower) 10 in.; lower 
clusters distant, many-fld., upper few-fld., continuous; bracts à in. Calyx } in.; 
lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla white, pubescent ; lobes $ by iin. Capsule not seen. 
—Described from T. Anderson’s Singapore example. The name should be E. Blumei, 
but there is no authentic example of that for comparison; nor is it known whether, 
by recording E. Blumei among the Indian .4canhacec, T. Anderson alluded to his 
Singapore plant. 
8. E. cinnabarinum, Wall. Pl. As. Ear. i. 20,t..21, and Cat. 
9088; leaves large elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrous, spikes rather 
short rigidly panicled fuscous-puberulous, corolla crimson tube 1j in. linear. 
Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 108, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 453; T. Anders. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 594. E. palatiferum, Bot. Mag. t. 5957, right- 
hand Jig. 
Lower Burma and TENASSERIM; Wallich, Parish, Beddome. 
. Leaves 8} by 23 in. undulate-crenulate; raphides sunk, obscure; nerves 8-11 
pair; petiole j-13 in. Panicles compound, stout; branches short, patent or ulti- 
mately recurved ; flowers subsessile, often fascicled; bracts } in., linear. Sepals-$ in., 
sublinear. Corolda-tube linear to the apex; limb 2-lipped, lobes of the lower lip wider 
than those of the upper; eye often more intensely crimson, sometimes a yellowish spot 
9n the middle lobe of the lower lip. . . 
AR. succisifolia ; flowers white. E. succisifolium, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, 
Pt. ii. 142, —Nicobars ; Kurz.—The dried examples show no good distinction between 
this and E, cinnabarinum ; the leaves have rather fewer nerves than in Wallich’s 
Specimen, but not than in his picture; the flowers are hardly smaller than Wailich’s ; 
e capsules are 3. in., altogether as of the genus. 
9. E. Parishii, C/arke; leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends 
glabrous, spikes puberulous or pubescent subpanicled, flowers often fascicled, 
corolla purplish-pink tube 14 in. distinctly funnel-shaped upwards. E. 
crenulatum var. grandiflora, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5440. Asystasia 
arishii, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 526. 
MOULMEIN ; Parish. TENASSERIM; Beddome. . 
Leaves 44 b 13-1} in. very acute, variegated in all the wild examples, densely 
Puncticulate not lineolate above ; nerves 6 pair; petiole 3 in. Spikes 2 6 in. su - 
erect; bracts Jin, Sepals } in., linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla-tu e inear 
elow, upper j part distinctly widened subinflated; limb ł in. diam. segmen 8 
subequal. Anihers subexsert. Ovary glabrous or very nearly so.—In Bot. ag 
t. 5440, the stamens are figured 4 subequal; in the accompanying text they are sai 
be20r4. Wild specimens have 2 perfect and 2 minute radimeniary samans. 
