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46 NOTE ON FERANTHEMUM ELATUM. 
fertilised ; such can hardly be the casein E. elatum. It reads strange, 
indeed, that the large flowers and their buds, but not the long styles 
of £. elatum should regularly have escaped my notice, le I never 
his views agree with those of a systematic botanist. He says: ‘‘ He 
(Dr. Anderson) might well have discarded it from Evanthemum, and 
taken it even a er sentative ce 
or one-seeded ; bracts small or minute ; dimorphism. 
Genus X.: Shape of corolla; supposed non-dimorphism; rest as in 
Evranthemum 
Asystasia: Sha 
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ow from such an exposition it is evident, or to speak in Mr. Scott’s 
own style, most decidedly evident, that the genus X. in its intri 
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tion of Indian Acanthacee, comprises three very different elements, 
viz. (1) Ecbolium, (2) Eranthemum proper, (3) Rhinacanthus / Eran- 
TEE te ttn a oe ergs 
* E, elatum and E. latifolium are shade-loving hygroclimatics, hence they 
retreat in excessiveclitnes, as Burma, &., , to the evergreen tropical forests, where 
they enjoy during the dry season a tolerably equable dampness, only the 
temperature varying considerably. 
t By some mistake the *‘capsules” instead of cells are said in my paper 
(Journ, As. Soc. beng., vol, 40, p. 75.) to be one-seeded. 
