Tab. 5407. 

 ERANTHEMUM Cooperi. 



Sir Daniel Cooper 's Eranthemum. 



Nat. Ord. AcanthacE/E. — Diandria Monogynia. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5440.) 



Eranthemum Cooperi; suffruticosum, ramis tetragonis, foliis brevipetiolatis 

 anguste lanceolatis grosse subserrato-lobatis incisis, floribus geminatis axil- 

 laribus, folio multo-brevioribus, calycis laciniis subaequalibus subulatis 

 erectis, corollae albse tubo elongato gracili, limbo amplo bilabiato patente, 

 labio superiore bi- inferiore tripartito, lobis oblongis medio lineatim purpureo- 

 maculato, omnibus fere aequalibus. 



This very handsome and very distinct species of Eranthemum 

 has been raised by Messrs. Veitch, from seeds given them by 

 Sir Daniel Cooper, from New Caledonia, a fine island, of which 

 the French Government is zealously exploring the natural 

 history. Its flowers were produced in a warm greenhouse, in 

 June, 1864. We possess in our herbarium, native specimens of 

 the same plant gathered in the island of Aneiteum, by Milne 

 and Macgillivray. 



Descr. This promises to be a moderate-sized sufFruticose 

 plant, rather copiously branched, with opposite tetragonous 

 branches. Leaves about three inches long by five lines wide, 

 shortly petiolate, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually attenu- 

 ate below, the margins inciso-lobate, the segments sharp and point- 

 ing forwards. Pedicels short, two springing from the axils of the 

 leaf, tinged with purple upwards. Calyx of five, erect, subulate 

 segments, also tipped with purple. Tube of the corolla slender, 

 elongated, white. Limb white, of two spreading lips, upper lip 

 of two deep lobes, lower of three, of which the middle one is 

 marked with small purple dots or spots, disposed in lines ; all 

 the lobes oblong, obtuse or subspathulate, nearly equal. 



Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Ovary and hypogynous gland and styled 

 stigma : — magnified. 



SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1864. 



