Tarn. 5771. 
ERAN THEMUM anpersont. 
Dr. Anderson's Eranthemum. 
Nat. Ord. AcaNTHACEa.—DIANDRIA MonoGynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5440.) 
Erantuemum Andersoni; elatum, glaberrimum, ramis subteretibus supra nodos 
leviter incrassatis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque angustatis petiolatis 
obtuse acuminatis, fasciculis florum subverticillatis in spicam strictam 
erectam densifloram dispositis, bracteis minutis, calycis lobis subulatis, 
corolla hypocrateriformi, tubo leviter curvo, calycem longe superante, 
lobis oblongis obtusis 4-subequalibus albis antico purpureo maculato, 
antheris exsertis purpureis. 
Erantuemum Andersoni, Masters, in Gard. Chron., 1869, p. 134. 
K. elegans, Masters 1. c. 1868, p. 1234, non Brown. 
A beautiful stove plant, a native of India, whence it was 
sent by Dr. Anderson from the Calcutta Gardens to the 
Botanic Gardens of Trinidad, and thence to Kew by Mr. 
Prestoe, the active and intelligent curator of those long- 
established and flourishing colonial gardens. It was first 
described by Dr. Masters, from plants which flowered with 
Mr. Bull, of King’s Road, Chelsea, and which were exhibited 
at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens in November of 
last year; our plant did not flower till the following January, 
and from it the figure here given is taken. 
Dzscr. A tall half-shrubby stove plant, bright green, per- 
fectly glabrous, sparingly branched. Stems erect, strict, green, 
_ nearly terete, swollen above the nodes. Leaves six to twelve 
— inches long, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed into a short petiole, 
and produced at the apex into an obtuse elongated point, 
bright deep green above, paler beneath. Flowers sessile, fas- 
_eicled ; fascicles whorled on a tall, erect, common peduncle, 
six to eight inches high, which is simply or sparingly 
branched at the base; bracts minute, shorter than the calyx 
MAY Ist, 1869. 
