Eranthemum. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. '— M3 
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of each peduncle, with one or two, still smaller, about the middle 
of each pedicel.—Ca/yz divided almost to the baseinto five slender, 
acute divisions.— Coro! ; tube long, slender, and curved. Border 
sub-bilabiate : upper lip erect, two-parted ; lower three-cleft ; all. the 
five segments equal .—Filaments four, short, in the mouth of the tube, 
two of them very minute, and abortive. Anthers erect, twin.—Cap- 
sule with two, or four, somewhat scabrous flattened orbicular seeds. 
Obs. Is nearly allied to my E. racemosum, but differs from it in 
having long, slender-peduncled fascicles of flowers in the axills of the 
leaves, as well as in having from one to three or more flowers on 
each of the lower opposite peduncles of the. racemes, while in that 
there is only one; and lastly, in having Beseperiipat ty meee 
ly two-parted, which in that is three-cleft. - + divest din 
5. E. racemosum. R. 
Suffruticose. Leaves oblong, ventricose. Racemes terminal ; “coro 
somewhat bilabiate, both lips three-parted. 
A small, under shrub, of great beauty, brought into the Botanic 
Garden from the Moluccas, in 1798 ; and blossomed in N ovember, 
1799. 
Stem small, with a few, slender branches ; height of the whole 
plant a about two feet.— Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong, ventricose, 
and running. down ou the petiole, entire, and pretty’ smooth ; from 
two to three inches long, and broad in proportion.— Racemes termi- 
nal, some of them long, and slender ; others shorter.—Flowers op- 
posite, pedicelled, approximate, pretty large, colour a pale pink, or 
white, tinged with red.— Bractes subulate, one at the base of each 
pedicel, and two on it.— Calyx; divisions equal, and subulate — Carol 
infundibuliform ; border somewhat bilabiate; both lips three-parted, 
the under one mente larger.—J@laments four, short, . inserted ee: 
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