Ii2 3IANCRIA MONOGYNiA. Erar.tkemum. 



posed as m ihe former but larger, and of ii deep brigiit blue pai^io 

 co\o\xt^ — Capsule and seeds as in E. montaua. 



3. E. stiffnitkosum. R. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves, ovate-oblong, smooth. Sjjikes terminal; 

 bractes wedge-shaped, naked. Stamens within the tube. 



A native of tlie Andaman islands, from thence several plants 

 were brought to the Botanic Garden, by Colonel Kyd ; and are now 

 (March 1797) in blossom. It is a small shrub, and of slow growth. 



Siem and branches sub-erect, jointed ; the younger somewhat four 

 sided and a little hairy.— Leores opposite, short-petioled, oblong, 

 and ovate-oblong, somewhat repand, smooth on both sides. — Spikes 

 terminal, flowers opposite.— jB/ofes three-fold, cne-flowered, the 

 exterior large, wedge-shaped, and naked; ihe interior daggered.— Co- 

 re/; lube length of the exterior bractes. i^orc^er regularly five part- 

 ed, pale blue. — Stamens two, abortive filaments issuing from the 

 base of the two fertile ones. Anthers half hid inthetubeof thecorol. 



4. E. diantherum. K. 



Suffruticose, erect. Leaves broad-lanceolar, smooth. Racemes 

 terminal, in axillary, peduncled umbellets. Corol somewhat bila- 

 biate. Anthers twin. 



A small delicate, perennial plant, brought from the Moluccas in 

 1800, blossomed in the Botanic Garden in September 1801. 



Stern curved, simple ; branches few in our small young plants. — 

 Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate-oblong, entire, obtuse, 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 divisi- 

 ons of the under lip'r. — Bractes, a single, ensiforni one, at the base 



