via s PI ANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ^". Eranthemum. | 
as in the former but larger, and of a deep bright blue pup : 
E Gd and seeds as in E. montana. 
3. E. suffruticosum. R. 
. Shrubby, erect. Leaves, ovate-oblong, smooth. Spikes termival; 
bractes wedge-shaped, naked. Stamens within the tube. 
4A native of the Andaman islands, from thence several plants 
were brought to the Botanic Garden, by Colonel Kyd ; and are now 
(March 1797) in blossom. It is a small shrub, and of slow growth. 
"Stem and branches sub-erect, jointed; the younger somewhat fout 
sided and a little hairy.— Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, 
and ovate-oblong, somewhat repand, smooth on both sides.—Spikes 
terminal, flowers opposite.— Bractes three-fold, one-flowered, the 
exterior large, wedge-shaped, and naked; the interior daggered.— Co- 
rol ; tube length of the exterior bractes. Border regularly five part- | 
ed, pale blue.— Stamens two, abortive filaments issuing from the 
base of the two fertile ones. Anthers half hid inthe tube of the corol. 
4. E. diantherum. R. 
Suffruticose, erect. Leaves broad-lanceolar, smooth. Racemes 
terminal, in axillary, peduncled umbellets, Cored somewhat bila- 
biate. Anthers twin. . 
A small delicate, perennial plant, brought from the Moluccas in 
1800, blossomed in the Botanic Garden in September 1801. - 
Stem curved, simple ; branches few in our small young plants.— 
Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate-oblong, entire, obtuse, destitute of. 
pubescence, somewhat bulate ; about two or three inches long, by 
oue broad.— Flowers numerous, collected on small, long-peduncled, 
axillary umbellets ; and in opposite fascicles, or solitary, on a long 
terminal, slender, erect raceme; small, white, with a slight ting? 
of red, and some minute red spots on the base of the middle divisi- 
ons of the under lips.— Bractes, a single, ensiform one, at ee base 
