114 - DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eranthemum. 
t 6. E.: .sBailrioides. Roxb. 
- Shrubby, erect. Leaves ovate oblong, smooth. Spikes wiii ; 
- Bractes wedge-shaped, naked. Stamens within the long slender tube, 
adjomed to them are two abortive filaments. 
- A native of the Andaman Islands, from whence several plants were 
brought to the Botanic Garden, by Colonel Kyd, which blossom in 
March: It is a small shrub, and of slow growth. ; 
Stem and branches sub-erect, jointed, the younger somewhat four- 
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-par« 
ted, pale blue.—$S/amens, two abortive filaments issuing from the 
base of the two fertile ones. Anthers half bid in the tube of the 
corol. l ' i 
7. E. strictum. Colebr. 
. Suffruticose erect pubescent, with ascending decussate simple 
branches. Leaves lanceolar, obscurely crenulated. ` Spikes terminal, 
slender, much elongated. Bractes opposite, fourfold, remote, one- 
flowered. : 
A native of the mountains near Sylhet, and from thence intro- 
duced into the Botanic Garden in 1813, where, it produces its 
beautiful large blossoms in succession iu the months of January, 
February, and March. 
Bengalee name Neel-V asooka. 
A. small shrub of about four or five feet in Bishi, slightly alii 
with short hair.—Stem almost round, jointed, sending forth four- 
sided slender branches in remote pairs.— Leaves about four inches 
long, acute at each end; their margins somewhat revolute and cre- 
nulate, smooth and shining, of a peculiar greyish-green colour above, 
very pale, with prominent, hairy, and reticulated nerves and veins be- 
low. ‘The uppermost or floral leaves, at the base of the spikes, ap- — 
