Tas. 7480. 
ERANTHEMUM Reticuratrum. 
Native of the Melanesian Islands 2? 
Nat. Ord. AcanrHacex.—Tribe JustTiciEx, 
Genus Erantuemum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1097.) 
ERANTHEMUM reticu/atum; suffruticosum, glaberrimum, foliis ovato-lanceo- 
latis obtusis in petiolum alatum angustatis marginibus undulatis, 
senioribus luride viridibus nervis sulphureis, junioribus angustioribus 
pulcherime aureo viridique reticulatis, racemis axillaribus terminalibus- 
que erectis, pedicellis bracteatis, bracteis parvis subulatis, calycis seg- 
mentis snbaqualibus angustis, corollz hypocrateriformis tubo calyce 
plusquam duplo longiore, limbo explanato subbilabiato albo orm versus 
sanguineo adsperso, lobis apice rotundatis 2-posticis oblongis 3 anticis 
majoribus latioribus, filamentis breviusculis, antheris oblongis rufo- 
brunneis. : 
E. reticulataum, Hort. ex Gard. Chron, (1875) vol. i. p. 619. 
E. Schomburgkii, Hort. ew Illustr. Hortic. vol. xxvi. (1879) t. 349. 
E. aureo-reticulatum, Hort. 
Though well known in cultivation in England for up- 
wards of a quarter of a century, the native country of the 
beautiful plant here figured is unknown, and its names 
are of ‘‘garden” authority. In the earliest notice 
that I can find of it, that in the Gardener’s Chronicle, 
nothing is said of its origin; but four years later, in the 
‘‘ Tllustration Horticole,’’ it is stated to have been received 
from Australia, and the adoption for it of the name Schom- 
burgkit would imply that the late Director of the Botanical 
Gardens of Adelaide (Richd. Schomburgh) was concerned in 
its introduction. The figure in the latter work is accom- 
panied with a note to the effect that it is “apparently 
Melanesian.” 
H. reticulatum has been long cultivated at Kew, where 
it has attained a height of four feet, flowering in autumn 
in a stove. 
Deser.—A small, erect, leafy, evergreen shrub ; branches 
obtusely four angled. Leaves opposite, lower six to ten 
inches Jong, ovate-lanceolate, dark green above with arch- 
ing golden nerves, pale beneath, margins undulate, tip 
rounded ; base cuneiform, rounded or subcordate, narrowed 
JuNE Ist, 1896, 
