Eranlhemum.'] Lxxxviii. acanthaceje. .555 



Herb with a creeping rhizome auJ erect nearly simple stems, riowers " ' 



in spikes - 1. F. variabile. 



Slender branching shrub. Tlowers axillary 2. E. tenellum* 



1. H. variabile, U. B)\ Prod. 477. A perennial with a creeping 

 rhizome and ascending or erect simple or slightly branched stems varying 

 from a few inclies to above 1 ft. high, the whole plant glabrous pubescent or 

 hirsute. Leaves petiolate, ovate oblong lanceolate or linear, 1 to 3 in. long. 

 Flowers white, solitary or rarely in little cymes of 3 or 5, in the axils^ of 

 bracts always very small and sometimes almost inconspicuous, forming 

 racemes or spikes, sometimes short and dense in the upper axils, but mostly 

 slender interrupted and terminal; pedicels very short. Calyx-segments 

 linear-setaceous, varying from under 2 to above 4 lines in length. Corolla 

 glabrous or pubescent, the slender straight tube 5 to 8 lines long ; lobes ob- 

 long, from under half the length of the tube to nearly its length. Capsule 

 about I in. long, the lower half contracted and seedless.— Nees in DC. Prod, 

 xi. 45G. 



Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cminbigham^ F. Mueller, and others ; 

 Rockhainptou and Rockingham Bay, B all achy ; Nerkool Creek, Broad Sound, and Amity 

 Creek, Bowman ; Wide Bay, Bidmll ; Burdeklii river, F. MaeUer ; Cape York, M'Giliivra^. 



Ztf.'s. "Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R^ Brown and others; Hastings 

 and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; Richmond river, Fawceit ; New England, C. Stuart, 



Yar. moUe. Leaves rather large, ovate, thin, softly pubescent. Flowers distant in 

 slender leafless racemes. — Cape York, Baemel ; Rockhampton, BaUachj. 



Var. Uneare, Leaves narrow linear.— Gilbert river, F. Mueller^ Jloreton Bay, C. 

 Btuart. 



Yar.? grandljlorum. Corolla-tube above 1 in. long; lobes above \ in.— Lord Howe's 

 Island, Milne^ a single specimen. Possibly a distinct species. 



The plant figured in Paxt. Mag. xiii. 75 as E, varlahlle is a very different species, not 

 AustraHan. 



' 2, E. tenellum, Bentl. An erect shmb of 2 to 3 ft. with slender sca- 

 brous-pubescent or glabrous branches. Leaves petiolate, ovate or oblong, 

 those of each pair very unequal in size, the larger one sometimes rather 

 above 1 in. long but usually half that size, and its opposite one much 

 smaller. Flowers white, solitary in tlie axils, on short pedicels. Calyx- 

 segments linear-setaceous, under 2 lines long. Corolla like the smaUer 

 form of E. variabile, 



Oueenslaiid. Rockhamptou, Ballach!/ ; Broad Sound, Bowman. Evidently nearly 

 alliTd to E. tuberculatum. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5405, but without the pecuhar warts of that 

 species, the flowers smaller, and the leaves differently shaped. 



Okder LXXXIX. PEDALINE^. 



iiTeirul 



(Sesamesc, DC) 



Corolla tubu- 



r lowers UTeguiar. v.ai^ a j-iuucu v/i mlum^v* .^-v. « --o -~- 



lar ; lobes 5, spreading, often arranged in 2 lips, the lowest often ratlierlarger 

 than the others, imbricate or rarely valvate in the bud. Stamens 4, ^^^ yn^^"<^"f^ 

 with a small tifth staminodium, rarely only 2 perfect ; anthers S-celled, the cells 

 opening longitudinally. Ovai^ of 2 or rarely 3 or 4 carpels, but divuled, at 

 least after flowering, into twice as many cells. Ovules in each cell either several 



