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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 /fp erect, two-parted ; /oat'er three-cleft ; all th^ 

 five segments equal. — Filaments four, short, in the mouth of the tube^ 

 two of them very minute, and abortive. Anthers erect, twin. — Cap- 

 sule 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 fiowers 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, wliile in that 

 there is only one ; and lastly, in having the upper lip of the corol on- 

 ly two-parted, which in that is three-cleft. 



5. E. racemosum. R. 



Suffruticose. Leares oblong, ventricose. Racemes terminal ; corot 

 somewhat bilabiate, both lips three-parted. 



A small, under shrub, of great beauty, brought into the Botanic 

 Garden from the Moluccas, in 1798 ; and blossomed in November, 

 1799. 



Stem small, with a few, slender branches j height of the whole 

 plant about two feet. — Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong, ventricose, 

 and running down on the petiole, entire, and pretty smooth ; from 

 two to three inches long, and broad in proportion. — Racemes terrain 

 nal, some of them long, and slender ; others shorter. — Flowers op- 

 posite, pedicelled, approximate, pretty large, colour a pale pink, or 

 white, tinged with red — Bractes subulate, one at the base of each 

 pedicel, and two on it. — Calyx; divisions equal, and subulate. — Corol 

 infundibuliform ; border somewhat bilabiate ; both lips thi ee-parted, 

 the under one considerably larger. — Filaments iom, short, inserted 

 within the moutr* of the tube, two of them minuie, and abortive. 

 Anthers half erect, 



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