112 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Eranthemum. 
the exterior bractes. Border regularly five-parted, pale — 
blue. Stamens two, abortive filaments issuing from the 
base of the two fertile ones. Anthers half hid in the tube of 
the corol. 
4. E. diantherum. R. 
Suffruticose, erect. Leaves broad-lanceolar, nia Ra- 
cemes terminal, in axillary, peduncled umbellets. Coro/ 
somewhat bilabiate. .Anthers twin. 
A small delicate, perennial plant, boongiii "ii the Motue: 
cas in 1800, blossomed in the Botanic garden in — 
1801. 
Stem curved, simple ;. heanalies few in our niall joong 
plants. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate-oblong, entire, ob- 
tuse, destitute of pubescence, somewhat bullate ; about two 
or three inches long, by one 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 tinge of red, and 
some minute red spots on the base of the middle divisions of 
the under lips. Bractes, a single, ensiform one, at the base 
of each peduncle, with one or two, still smaller, about the 
middle of each pedicel. Calyx divided almost to the base 
into five slender , acute divisions, - -Corol ; tube long, slender, 
and curved. Border sub-bilabiate : upper lip erect, two- 
parted ; lower three-cleft ; all the five segments. equal. ‘Fila 
ments four, ier daw the ‘aheenthi bf thes bal: two of them very 
minute, and abortive. Anthers erect, twin. Capsule with — 
two, or four, somewhat scabrous flattened orbicular seeds, my 
Obs, Is nearly allied tomy 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 
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