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110 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eranthemum. 
I am inclined to think it would answer well for scales to - 
mathematical instruments; it does not look so well as box, 
but its not being subject to warp may render it fitter, though 
not so handsome. 
ERANTHEMUM. Linn. Flor. Zeyl. 15. 
' Calyx five-cleft, Corol hypocrateriform ; border regular, 
or nearly so. Filaments four, two of them sterile, Capsule 
_ two-celledy two-valved, bursting with elasticity’ a to 
the — 
1. E. montanum. R. 
Shrubby, diffuse. Leaves oblong, acute, — rides: 
Bractes linear, hairy. ~ 
Justica montana. R. Corom. pl. 2. N. 176. 
A small, straggling, jointed, under shrub ; a native of ee 
Circar mountains, flowers during the cool season. 
Stems many, striated, jointed, smooth, leaning on the 
ground, and rogting at the joints, young slits fetid ad: 
Leaves opposite, petioled, oval and oblong, pointed, ruming 
down the petioles, from three to four inches long, and about 
two broad, Spikes many, terminal, erect, slender. roo 
cles four-sided, Bractes exterior, opposite, decussate, linear, ; 
acute, hairy, one-flowered. Bracteoles two to eac 
flower, 
pressing laterally the calyx, and like the exterior, but much 
smaller, Flowers opposite, solitary, decussate, very pale 
blue, Calyx five-parted ; segments subulate, Corol with a 
very long, and very slender tube, border of five equal obo- e 
vate truncate, pale blue segments, Filaments short. Anthers 
single, oblong, within the tube of the corol, Style length of 
the tube of the corol, Stigma unequally bifid, appearing 
just without the tube. Capsule linear-oblong, compressed, 
Pointed, two-celled, two-valved, opening across the partition, 
wi han elastic jerk, _ Seeds two in each, compressed, bags 
