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, smooth. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, in axillary, peduncled umbellets. Corol 

 somewhat bilabiate. Anthers twin. 



A small delicate, perennial plant, brought from the Moluc- 

 cas in 1800, blossomed in the Botanic garden in September 

 1801. 



Stem curved, simple; branches few in our small young 

 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, ensitorm 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 div isions. 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, short, in the mouth of the tube, two of them very 

 minute, and abortive. Anthers erect, twin. Capsule with 

 two, or four, somewhat scabrous flattened orbicular seeds. 



Obs. Is nearly allied to my 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 

 the racemes, while in that there in only one ; and lastly, in 

 having the upper lip of the corol only two-parted, which in 

 that is three-cleft. 



