Eraciim, TExaANDuiA moxogynia. 4\^ 



rynibiforin panicle. — Peduncles and pedicels four-sided, smooth — 

 Flowers numerous, large, of a violet colour. — Cah/x five-cleft; di- 

 Ti?ivUo wiih a br jud niembranaceous wing on the back, and a lon;^ 

 snbidute point. — d.ro/ ; Uihe gibbous, lenglli of tlie calyx, some 

 short filaments aaiangst the insertions of the stamina crown tho 

 nionth of the tulie. Border of five, obova*e, beautiful, violet-colour- 

 ed divisions. — Filaments on the mouth of the tube, ereo";. Anthers 

 linear, with two pores at the top, and also opening on the sides.— 

 Sl7/le deciiniiig, raUier longer thuu the lilauients. — Stirnia headed. 

 — Capsule oblong, two- celled. 



Obs. The anthers remain straight, and hard, widi two pores at the 

 top, and al-:o buratiug by two longitudinal openings on th-^; sides, I 

 have for tliat reason removed this plant from the genus. Chironia, 

 the esseu-ial mark of which consists in its spiral anthers. 



5. E. carhialum, R. 



Annual, erect. Leaves sub-sessile, lanceolate, three-nerved. Co- 

 rals four-cleft. Cahjce-i, broad, niembianaceo-carinuted. Ltamens 

 j)rotiuded. Stj/le declined. 



A native of Ce\lon. 



Root ramous, annuu!.— S/f /« erect, with one or two opposite pairs 

 of blanches about the middle ; above these dichotomous, some- 

 what four-s ded, smooth, from six to twelve inches high. — Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, lanceolate, entire, three-nerved. — Flowers 

 tenunia!, numerous, pretty large, yellow, collected on dichotomous 

 corymbs, wUh a long ptduncled one in each oi the divisions. — Calyx 

 four-parted, each division augmented by a broad membranaceous 

 keel on the back. — Corol four-parted. — Filaments short, inserted on 

 a membrauaceous run round the inside of the mouth of the tube. 

 Anthers erect, yellow, opening on the sides. — Style longer than the 

 stamens, declined. Stigma ascending, simple. 



6. E. sulcatum, i?. 



Annual, erect, ramous, sulcated en the opposite sides of the stem 



