Tab. 5440. 



ERANTHEMUM crenulatum ; var. grandijlorum. 



Crenulate-leaved Eranthemutn ; large-flowered var. 



Nat. Ord. ACANTIIACE.E. — DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Gen. Char. Calyx quinqucfidus, eequalis. Corolla hypocratcritliorpha vol 



elongato-infundibuliformis ; tiibo longo graeili, Umbo subrcquali. Stamina duo 

 fertilia circa os tubi adnata, longe decurrentia, duo sterilia brevissiraa, filamentis 

 longiorum basi comiexa, in specicbus nonnullis anomalis nullis observatis. An- 

 thera exsertse, biloculares, muticae ; loculis parallelis contiguis, texture densioris. 

 Capsnla inferne depressa ; valvulis contiguis, aspcrma ; superius bilocularis, te- 

 trasperraa. Bissepimentum adnatum. Semina discoidea, retinaculis sufFidta.— 

 Prut ices vel suffruticcs, Asia, America, Africa, et Nova Hollartdia calidions 

 et tropica, plemmqne monticola, speciosis floribus insignes Phlogi sim 'dibits, ca- 

 ruleis, roseis, albis varie pictis ; foliis vel integerrimis vel serratis. Flore? tpt- 

 cati; bracteis communibus majoribus vel minoribus ; bracteolis omnium partis op- 

 positis. Nees. 



Eranthemum crenulatum; fruticosmn, erectum, caule inferne foliisque oblongis 

 utrinque acuminatis repando-crenatis glaberrimis, racemo terminali simplici 

 compositove pluribusve axillari-aggregatis simplicibus, floribus fasciculato- 

 congestis subverticillatis secundisve, bracteis bracteolisque subulatis bre- 

 vibns calycibusque glanduloso-scabris, corollae laciniis ovatis obtusis sequa- 

 libus. Nees. 



Eranthemum crenulatum. Wall, in Bot. Reg. t. 879. Nees in Wall. Plant. 

 Asiat. liar. v. 3. p. 107. Spreng. in Syst. Veget. Cur. post p. 19. Wall. 

 Cat. n. 2491. Nees in Be Cand. Prodr. v. ll.jp..453. 



Justicia latifolia. Fold, Symbol, v. %.p. I. p. 370. Willi. Sp. PL v.l.p. 88. 



Eranthemum diantherum. Bl. Bijd. p. 792 (nee Roxb). 



Justicia Honamoorensis. Hort. Madrid. Wall. Cat. n. 2491 a. 



Yar. ongustifolia ; foliis angustioribus fereque lanceolatis. 



Justicia oi'biculata. Wight in Wall. Cat. n. 24S9. 



Var. grandiflora; foliis latioribus ; floribus majoribus. (Tab. Nostr. 5440.) 



Seeds of this plant were sent to us from Monlmeine by the 

 Rev. C. S. Parish, and it is, we think, a large and handsome va- 

 riety of the Eranthemum crenulatum, a species very common in 

 Ceylon and India ; as the Madras Peninsula, but most abundant 

 perhaps in the Malay Peninsula and Islands, varying, however, 



APRIL 1st, 1864. 



