Tas. 5921. 
ERANTHEMUM crnnaBaRINuM, VAR. OCELLATUM. 
Native of Moulmein. 
Nat. Ord. AcanrHaceE#z.—Tribe ERANTHEMER. 
Genus Erantuemum; L. (Mees in A. DC. Prod. vol. ii. p. 445.) 
Erantuemum cinnabarinum ; glabrum v. minute puberulum, ramulis teretibus, 
foliis petiolatis ovatis v. oblongo-lanceolatis subcaudato-acuminatis, 
racemis terminalibus basi compositis recurvato-patentibus multifloris, 
ficribus fasciculatis subsessilibus secundis, bracteis filiformibus, calycis 
segmentis subulatis, corolla coccinea, tubo gracili calyce multoties 
longiore, limbi explanati lobis 2 superioribus minoribus oblongis 
obtusis, lateralibus oblongo-rotundatis, inferiore orbiculato, antheris 
ceruleis. 
ERanTHEMuM cinnabarinum, Nees in Wall. Plant. As. Rar., vol. i. p. 20, t. 
21; et in A. DC. Prod., vol. ii. p. 453. 
Var. ocellata, foliis maculatis, maculis irregulariter orbiculatis oblongisve 
stramineis roseo-ocellatis. 
A native of Martaban, where it was discovered in 1827 by 
Wallich, at the foot of the hills at Trogla, and figured in his 
magnificent “Plante Asiatic Rariores.” N othing further 
was known of it till, some forty years later, it was discovered 
by the Rev. Mr. Parish, on an expedition to Na-Toung, in 
Birma. From that gentleman seeds have been received at 
Kew, produced by plants grown in his garden at Moulmein, 
and it is to the produce ot these that the accompanying plate 
is due. The curious ocellate blotching of the leaf does not 
occur in the original specimens of Wallich and Parish, and 
is no doubt a deformity; it may find favour in the eyes of 
many horticulturists, but, to my eye, such discolorations 
too much resemble eruptive skin-diseases to be objects of 
admiration ; they are not of the same nature as the ornamen- 
tation of Anectochilus leaves, or the spots and bands on the 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1871. 
