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Teucrium aegutum, R. Br. var. pinnatifidum : foliis laciniato- 

 pinnatifidis fere bipinnatifidis. — Hunter's River, New South Wales. 



The no. 359 of Seemann's Feejee collection, inadvertently named 

 Coleus atropurpureus, is Plectranthiis Forsteri. 



AcantliacecB. 



Eranthemum laxiflorum (sp. nov.) : glaberrimum ; foliis ovato- 

 seu lanceolato-oblongis saepius acuminatis acumine obtuso ; pedun- 

 culis axillaribus petiolo longioribus cymoso-tri - multifloris ; bracteis 

 oblongis parvis herbaceis ; pedicellis calyce longioribus ; laciniis 

 calycis setaceo-subulatis tubo brevissimo pluries longioribus ; corolla 

 " cserulea " hypocraterimorpha, lobis ovalibus. — Sandalwood Bay, 

 &c., Feejee Islands. A showy species, of the same group as E. hi- 

 color; " shrub six feet high, ornamental." The color of the flowers, 

 " blue," is stated on the authority of Dr. Pickering's notes. This and 

 the following mixed were distributed by Dr. Seemann under the name 

 of " Ch-aptophyllum hortense" — which throws much doubt on the as- 

 signed difference in color. 



Eranthemum insularum (sp. nov.) : glabrum ; foliis ovatis lance- 

 olatisve obtuse acuminatis ; pedunculis axillaribus seu ramos ter- 

 minantibus brevibus 1 - 3-floris ; bracteolis minutis ; calycis laciniis 

 subulatis tubo duplo triplove longioribus ; corolla " purpurea " infundi- 

 buliformi, lobis oblongis. — Feejee Islands, " frequent and sometimes 

 cultivated ; an ornamental shrub, six feet high, with purple flowei's." 

 Vavau and Lifuka, Friendly Islands, Prof. Harvey. Perhaps varying 

 into the preceding. Is Justicia longifolia, Forst. {J. sinuata, Soland., 

 appended by Nees to Anthacanthus) a congener of the above ? 



Ch^tacanthus repandus : glaber, elatus (fruticosus ?) ; foHis 

 ovato-lanceolatis seu oblongis acumine obtuso repandis sinuatisve mem- 

 branaceis ; pedunculis cymoso-paucifloris ; corolla extus calyceque 

 minutim pubescentibus. Justicia repanda, Forst. ? Eranthemum re- 

 pandum, Roem. & Schult. ? Anthacanthus repandus, Nees in DC. ? — 

 Ovolau, Feejee Islands. The small flowers, anthers, c&c. correspond 

 with the Cape species, upon which Nees founded his Chcetacanthus. 



DiCLiPTERA CLAVATA, Juss. Our materials from Tahiti barely 

 suffice to show that the plant is of this genus. The apparent contra- 

 diction in Vahl's description, which puzzled Nees (Prodr. 11. p. 490), 

 is readily harmonized by noting that the word " bracteis " in the diag- 

 nosis refers to the involucral valves, but in the appended remarks it 

 applies to those bracts which subtend the ramifications. 



