Eranthemum.] cix. ACANTHACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 499 



An undershrub, 4 ft. high. Leaves 5^ by \\ in., acuminate, base cuneate, obscurely 

 or obsoletely liueolate; nerves 5-6 pair, much curved, usually crispedly pubescent 

 when young; petiole ^ in. Spikes 2-5 in., fuscous-puberulous, few- or little-branched, 

 never forming a lux panicle ; bracts y n in. ; lower pedicels very short. Flowers and 

 fruits very nearly as of E. palatiferum. Young capsule sometimes sparsely pilose, 

 soon glabrous. This plant seems plentiful at Malacca, and probably occurs in the 

 Malay Isles, but does not exactly agree with any Malay species at Kew, nor with the 

 descriptions of the Dutch botanists. It may (ex descr.) possibly be E. punctatum, 

 Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 455. 



7. E. Anderson!, Masters in G-ard. Chron. 1869 ; leaves large lan- 

 ceolate acute at both ends glabrous, spike very long linear flower-clusters 

 whorled below, bracts and calyces glabrous or puberulous, corolla-tube 

 li-lf in. Bot. Mag. t. 5771. E. elegans, Masters 1. c. 1868, p. 1234, not 

 ofBr. E. Blumei, Teijs. ? Miq. Fl Ind. Bat. ii. 836 ; T. Anders. Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 523 ; Kurz in Flora 1870, 363. 



SINGAPORE ; T. Anderson. DISTEIB. Malaya. 



Upper leaves 5 by !$ in. ; petiole | in. Spike (coming into flower) 10 in. j lower 

 clusters distant, many-fld., upper few-fld., continuous; bracts ^ in. Calyx $ in.; 

 lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla white, pubescent ; lobes by \ in. Capsule not seen. 

 Described from T. Anderson's Singapore example. The name should be E. Blumei, 

 but there is no authentic example of that for comparison ; nor is it known whether, 

 by recording E. Blumei among the Indian Acanthacece, T. Anderson alluded to his 

 Singapore plant. 



8. E. cinnabarinum, Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 20, t. 21, and Cat. 

 9088 ; leaves large elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrous, spikes rather 

 short rigidly panicled fuscous-puberulous, corolla crimson tube 1^ in. linear. 

 Nees in Wall. PL As. Bar. iii. 108, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 453; T. Anders, 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 524. E. palatiferum, Bot. Mag. t. 5957, right- 

 liandfig. 



LOWEE BURMA and TENASSERIM ; Wallich, Parish, Beddome. 



Leaves 8| by 2% in., undulate- crenulate; raphides sunk, obscure ; nerves 8-11 

 pair; petiole -! in. Panicles compound, stout; branches short, patent or ulti- 

 mately recurved ; flowers subsessile, often fascicled; bracts | in., linear. Sepals in., 

 sublinear. Corolla-tube linear to the apex ; limb 2-lipped, lobes of the lower lip wider 

 than those of the upper ; eye often more intensely crimson, sometimes a yellowish spot 

 on the middle lobe of the lower lip. 



VAR. succisifolia ; flowers white. E. succisifolium, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, 

 pt. ii. 142. Nicobars ; Kurz. -The dried examples show no good distinction between 

 this and E. cinnabarinum ; the leaves have rather fewer nerves than in Wallich's 

 specimen, but not than in his picture ; the flowers are hardly smaller than Wallich's ; 

 the capsules are f in., altogether as of the genus. 



9. E. Parishii, Clarke; leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends 

 glabrous, spikes puberulous or pubescent subpanicled, flowers often fascicled, 

 corolla purplish-pink tube 1| in. distinctly funnel-shaped upwards. E. 

 crenulatum var. grandiflora, SooJc. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5440. Asystasia 

 Parishii, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 526. 



MOULMEIN ; Parish. TENASSERIM ; Beddome. 



Leaves 4 by l-li" in., very acute, variegated in all the wild examples, densely 

 puncticulate not lineolate above ; nerves 6 pair; petiole f in. Spikes 2-5 in., sub- 

 erect ; bracts in. Sepals in., linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla-tube linear 

 below, upper ^ part distinctly widened subinflated ; limb | in. diam., segments 

 subequal. Anthers subexsert. Ovary glabrous or very nearly so. In Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5440, the stamens are figured 4 subequal; in the accompanying text they are said 

 to be 2 or 4. Wild specimens have 2 perfect and 2 minute rudimentary stamens. 



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