Exacun. TEYRANDRIA MONXOGYNIA- A15 
rymbiform panicle.—Peduncles and pedicels four-sided, smooth.— 
Flowers numerous, large, of a violet colour,—Calyr five-cleft ; di- 
visions with a broad membranaceous wing on the back, and a long 
subulate point.—Coro/ ; tube gibbous, length of the calyx, some. 
short filaments amongst the insertions of the stamina crown the 
mouth of the tube. Border of five, obovate, beautiful, violet-colour^ 
ed divisions.—Filaments on the mouth of the tube, erect. Anthers 
linear, with two pores at the top, and also opening on the sides.— 
Sty/e declining, rather longer than the filaments.— Sigma headed. 
— Capsule obloug, two-celled. 
Obs. The anthers remain straight, and hard, with two pores at the 
top, and also bursting by two longitudinal openings on the sides, I 
have for that reason removed this plant from the genus. Chironia, 
the essential mark of which consists in its spiral anthers. 
$. E. carinatum, R. 
Annual, erect. Leaves sub-sessile, lenieohuis, three-neryed. Co-: 
rols four-cleft. Calyces broad, membranaceo-carinated. Stamens 
protruded. Style declined. 
A native of Ceylon. 
~ Root ramous, aunual.— Stem erect, with one or two opposite pairs 
of branches about the middle; above these dichotomous, some- 
what four-sided, smooth, from six to twelve inches high „— Leaves 
- opposite, short-petioled, lanceolate, entire, three- nerved.— Flowers 
terminal, numerous, pretty large, yellow, collected on dichotomous 
corymbs, with a long peduncled one in each of the divisions.—Calyr 
four-parted, each division augmented by a broad membranaceous 
keel on the back.—Corol four-parted.— Filaments short, inserted on 
a membranaceous rim round the inside of the mouth of the tube. 
Anthers erect, yellow, opening on the sides.—Style longer than - 
stamens, declined. Stigma ascending, simple. 
* 6. E. sulcatum, R. 
Annual, erect, ramous, sulcated on the opposite sides of the stena. 
