Eranihemu?n.'\ Acailthacecs. 325 



concave sides, glabrous, usually purplish; 1. very variable, 

 i|-4 in., usually oval or ovate-oval, but often lanceolate or 

 linear, shortly acuminate, acute, entire or faintly crenate, 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent on veins ; fl. rather small, 

 sessile, in lax, erect, axillary, stalked spikes, bracts and 

 bractlets very small, triangular, acute, pubescent ; sep. linear, 

 acute; cor. f in. long, finely pubescent outside, tube bent near 

 the base, floor flattened and channelled, lobes nearly equal, 

 the 4 upper recurved, the lower convex not recurved; fil. 

 nearly equal; capsule i in., pointed, densely pubescent ; seeds 

 yellowish-grey, tuberculate. 



Moist low country up to 3000 ft.; rather common. Abundant about 

 Kandy. Fl. Aug., Sept.; pale violet, lowest lobes darker, tube reddish, 

 dotted beneath. 



Also in the Anamalai Hills, S. India. 



I have little doubt that this is Moon's Riiellia variabilis^ as it was 

 sent home under that name by Macrae. It seems a fairly well-marked 

 species, and is a very common weed in the grass and among bushes at 

 Peradeniya. The width of the leaves is extremely variable. Dries 

 blackish. 



17. ERANTKEMUm, L. 



Semi-shrubby, 1. opp., fl. rather large, nearly sessile, in 

 interrupted spikes, bracts and bractlets very small; cal. much 

 longer than bracts, very deeply cut into 5 equal narrow 

 segm.; cor.-tube long, cylindrical, narrow, limb slightly 2- 

 lipped, lobes 5, imbricate, nearly equal, lowest rather the 

 broadest; stam. 2, inserted in throat of cor., fil. very short, 

 imperfect stam. 2, very small; ov. glabrous, stigma bilobed; 

 capsule clavate, with a narrow solid base half its length; 

 seeds 4, orbicular, flattened, glabrous, rugose. — Sp. 30 ; 

 10 in Fl. B. Ind. 



E. inalabaricum, Clarke in Fl. B. Lid. iv. 497 (iJ 



E. crenulatum^ Thw. Enum. 235 (non Lindl.). C. P. 1703, I979- 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 497. 



Stem ii-2 ft., somewhat branched, erect, cylindrical, 

 glabrous, bark papery; 1. 2^-5 in., oval, tapering to base, 

 acuminate, obtuse or acute, faintly crenate, glabrous, rather 

 thick, shining above, lineolate, petiole obscure; fl. in opp. 

 clusters of 1-3, whorls distant, on a long erect terminal 

 spicate infl., bracts and bractlets lanceolate, acute, puberulous; 

 cal.-segm. linear, acute, finely pubescent; cor.-tube | in., nearly 

 straight, lobes oblong-oval, obtuse, spreading; capsule i in., 

 pointed, slightly indented between the seeds. 



