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Species 90 (after Mackaya has been taken out), mainly in South-east 

 Asia and Oceania ; a dozen species in Tropical Africa with Madagascar, 

 and a few in Tropical America. 



Pistil clothed with brown hairs. Flowers -TS in. long .. 1. E. Jiirtipistilhim. 



Pistil with a few patent thin hairs or glabrate : — 

 Corolla-tube "5 to '6 in. long : — 



Spikes 3 to 6 in. long ; lower flowers solitary, distant . . 2. E. porphyranthos. 

 Panicles I'o in. long, of 6 to 12 small flowers . . 3. JS. brevijios. 



Panicles long, dense ; flowers clustered or eymulose : — 



Sepals "125 to •2-5 in. long; leaf-base attenuate .. ^. E. caudifolium. 



Sepals scarcely •125 in. long; leaf-base obtuse .. 5. E. selangorense. 



Corolla-tube 1 to 1*3 in, long : — 



Panicle often reduced to an apparent spike : — 

 Flowers white : — 



Panicle of elongate, interrupted spikes . . 6. JB. album. 



Spikes dense. Flowers clustered . . ... 8. E. Kingii. 



Flowers coloured : — 

 Flowers solitary, all close in a continuous spike . . I.E. malaccense. 

 Flowers in whorls, the lower standing apart . . 9. E. acuviinatissimum. 



Panicle with lower branches -175 in. long, carrying 

 small cymes .. .. ., .. 10. E. Teijsmanni. 



1. Beanthemum hietipistillum, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. Erect, 2 ft. 

 high, pubescent. Leaves up to 8 by 3 in., elliptic-acuminate, base sub- 

 obtuse, fuscous beneath, pubescent on both surfaces ; primary nerves 

 10 pairs ; petiole 1"5 in. Inflorescence of 3 to 1 panicles reduced to 

 spikes, 4 to 9 in. long ; flowers in clusters of 1 to 5, opposite, mostly 

 •25 to 1 in. apart ; bracts linear, •175 in. long. Sepals ^2 in., 

 linear, very pubescent. Corolla pale pink ; tube "5 in. long ; lobes 

 hardly -3 in. long. Stamens and pollen of the genus ; the filaments 

 and anthers slightly hairy. Ovary and style-base clothed with erect 

 brown hairs. Capsule nearly 1 in. long, with 4 seeds in the hairy top, 

 constricted between the pairs of seeds. Seeds of the genus. 



Peeak : Wray 1899. 



2. Eeanthemum poephyeanthos, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. A sparingly 

 hairy, suberect, simple- stemmed undershrub, 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves 

 very variable in size; blade sometimes 7 by 2-5 in., sometimes 2 by -7 in., 

 elliptic-lanceolate-acute ; base cuneate ; margin often undulate, sub- 

 crenulate ; lower surface nearly glabrous or pubescent on the midrib, 

 often when dry whitened ; primary nerves 6 pairs ; petioles '25 to '3 in. 

 long. Inflorescence a linear spike, "3 to 6 in. long (but see var. /?) ; 

 flowers sessile, in opposite pairs, the lower pairs -25 to '35 in. (and 

 upwards), distant ; bracts linear, hardly -175 in. long. Sepals '15 in. long, 

 linear, minutely pubescent. Corolla purple, or light purple, or " white 



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