390 xcri. AC.vNxnACE.f:. 



stricted iu the middle between the seed.s, 4-seeded. Seeds obliquely 

 ovoid, flat-compressed, with dentate margins, the faces tuberculate 

 and with hexagonal areohe round the edges. V\. B. I. v. 4, p. 496; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. l!^G ; AVoodr. iu Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 357. — Flowert; : Aug.-ISept. 



Dkccan: Bhor, Kanitkarl S. M. Codntky : Eelgaum, Bi/ekir, 1148!, Cooke I, 

 Woodrow ; near Dliarwar, Duizell ^' Gibson. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula), 

 apparently endemic. 



26. ERANTHEMUM, Linn. 

 Glabrous shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves usuallj' entire. Flowers 

 subsessile, 1-3 in the axils of opposite bracts, arranged in terminal, 

 dense or interrupted, simple or branched spikes ; bracts and bracteoles 

 narrow, small. Calyx 5-fid or 5-partite ; segments narrow, subequal. 

 Corolla-tube elongate, narrow-cylindric, rarely widened at the throat ; 

 limb 5-partite, the lobes elliptic, spreading, flat, subequal. Stamens 2 

 fertile, with usually 2 upper small clavate staminodes ; anthers ovate or 

 oblong, 2-celled ; cells oblong, equal, parallel; connective widened. 

 Disk annular or shortly eupular. Ovary 2-celled, usually glabrous ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell ; style fihform ; stigma entire or minutely 2-lobed. 

 Capsule oblong, 4-seeded at top, contracted below into a long solid 

 stalk. Seeds compressed, orbicular or subquadrate, rugose or smooth, 

 supported on acute relinacula. — Distrib. Warmer parts of the world ; 

 species 50. 



1 . Eranthemum malabaricum, C. B. Clarlr, in IIool: f. FI. B. I. 

 V. 4 (1884) p. 497. An undershrub 1^-2 ft. high, erect; stems and 

 branches terete, glabreus. Leaves 3-5 by 1|-2| in., ovate or elliptic, 

 acute or acuminate, rather thick, faintly cremUate, minutely lineolate and 

 shilling above, glabrous, base tapering ; main nerves 5-7 pairs ; petioles 

 i-^in. long. Flowers in opposite clusters of 1-3 on long, slender, glan- 

 dufar-puberulous interrupted spikes 4-9 in. long ; bracts ^ in. long, linear- 

 lanceolate ; bracteoles similar but smaller, ^- in. long. Calyx I in. long, 

 glandular-puberulous, divided almost to the base : segments linear, acute. 

 (Jorolla white, If in. long, glabrous; tube 1| in. long, slender, nearly 

 straight, scarcely widened close to the limb ; lobes of the limb obovate- 

 oblong. rounded, spreading, the lower a little longer than the others, 

 spotted with purple dots. Ovary glabrous ; style filiform, slightly 

 pubescent at the base. Capsules f in. long with narrow cyhndric solid 

 base, clavate, pointed, glandular-pubescent, slightly constricted between 

 the seeds. Seeds suborbicular, compressed, reticulato-rugose, glabrous, 

 f in. long. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 325 ; Tall). Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 266 ; Woodr.in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1^99) p. 357. Eranthcmvni 

 crenidntum,^N^\\. Cat. 2491 {not of Lindl); Dalz. & Gibs. p. 195.— 

 Flowers: Dec. 



Konkan: Lfiw\, S/or/,-s\; War! jtinglrs, Dal::ell <.{ Gikwn ; Viziadrng, Kanitkar]; 

 Marma"ai), Woorlntv] Df.ccan : Phiinda Ghat, h'i/rhic, 598! Kanaka: evergreen 

 forests of N. Kanara, Talhut ; Mulas, Ritchie, 598!— DiBTKiu. India (VV. Peninsula); 

 Ceylon. 



Eranihemvm hicohr, Schrank, PI. ilnv. llort. I^Fonac. (1819) t. 8. 

 A small shrub uith dark-green ovate acuniinate leaves and white flowers, 



