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Eranthemum montanum. Mountain 

 Eranthemum. 



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Class and Order. 



DlANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Acanthace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-fidus, sequalis. Cor. hypocrateriformis, v. elon- 

 gato-infundibuliformis, tubo longo gracili, limbo subaequali. 

 Stamina duo fertilia circa os tubi adnata, longe decur- 

 rentia ; duo sterilia brevissima, filamentis longiorum basi 

 connexa ; in speciebus nonnullis anomalis haec rudimenta 

 omnind desunt. Antherce exsertae, bilocellata?, mutieae, 

 locellis parallelis contiguis, texturae densioris. Capsula in- 

 ferne compressa, valvulis contiguis, asperma; superhis bilo- 

 cularis tetrasperma. Dissepimentum adnatum. Semina 

 discoidea, retinaculis suffulta.— Inflorescentia : spica, brac- 

 ieis communibus majoribus aut minoribus y bracteolis omnium 

 parvis oppositis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Eranthemum montanum; caule teretiusculo (tetragono) 

 foliisque oblongis utrinque attenuatis repando-crenatis 

 (integerrimisque) glabris, pedunculis terminalibus tn- 

 chotomis spicisque pubescenti-viscidis, bracteis lanceo- 

 lato-attenuatis ciliatis. Nees. 



Eranthemum montanum. Roxb. FL Ind. I. p. 110 ed. 

 Cur. Wall. p. 110. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. 1. p. 

 150. Wall. Cat. n. 2492. b. c. d. (not aj Wight Ic. 

 PL Ind. Or. v. %p. 466. Wight, Cat. n. 2004. 



Justicia montana. Roxb. PL Corom. 2. t. 177. 



" A very beautiful flowering shrub/' as Dr. Roxburgh 

 justly calls it, a native of the Circar mountains. It is^also 



found 



