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Eranthemum variabile, R. Br. 



Eranthemum variabile, R. Br., Prodr. Fl. N. Holl., p. 477 ; Benth., Fl. Austr., iv. p. 555. 



Timor Laut. — Common in Queensland and New South Wales, but this appears to be 

 the first discovery of the species outside of Australia. The plant figured under this name 

 in Paxton's Magazine of Botany, xiii. p. 75, is a distinct species. The genus is generally 

 spread over the tropics. 



Eranthemum album, Nees. 



Eranthemum album, Nees ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., iv. p. 498. 



Eranthemum crenulatum, Wall.; Bot. Reg., t. 879; DC., Prodr., xi. p. 453; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. 

 p. 836. 



Arrou ; Ki ; Dammar. — Andamans, and Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Lepidagathis hyalina, Nees var. ? 



Lepidagathis hyalina, Nees var. ? Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 815. 



Timor Laut ; Dammar ; Letti. — Common in India, and extending from China 

 through the Archipelago. About fifty species of Lepidagathis are known, two of which 

 are American, and the rest Old "World, chiefly Asiatic. 



Lepidagathis javanica, Blume. 



Lepidagathis javanica, Blume; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 813. 



Arrou ; Ki. — Java to Timor. 



Justicia gendarussa, Linn. 



Justicia gendarussa, Linn, f., Suppl., p. 85 ; Rumph., Herb. Amb., iv. p. 70, t. 28. 

 Gendarussa vulgaris, Nees in DC. Prodr., xi. p. 410; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 831. 



Timor Laut ; Babar. — Southern India, China, Formosa, and the Philippines through 

 the Archipelago, but not recorded from Australia. It is also found in Madagascar, the 

 Seychelles, Bourbon, and Mauritius ; and it exists as an introduced plant in South 

 America. Justicia is a genus of more than 100 species, spread over the warm regions of 

 both hemispheres. 



Graptophyllum hortense, Nees. 



Graptophyllum hortense, Nees; Wall., PI. As. Rar., iii. p. 285; DC, Prodr., xi. p. 328; Miq., Fl 

 Ind. Bat., ii. p. 824 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., ix. p. 523 ; Dene., Herb. Timor. 

 Descr.,p. 54; Rumph., Herb. Amb., iv. t. 30. 



Justicia pida, Vahl, Symb., ii. p. 14; Bot. Reg., t. 1227; Bot. Mag., t. 1870. 



Arrou ; Timor Laut. — This is commonly cultivated throughout Tropical Asia, as well 

 as in other parts of the world, on account of its showy flowers, and prettily variegated 



