Mbermaiera.] oil. ACANTHACBiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 397 



petiole 0-i in. Meads 3-8-fld. ; bracts J in. ; bracteoles i in., narrowly obovate- 

 oblong. SepaU 4, linear, subobtuse, visoidly pubescent ; the fiftb slightly longer, 

 oblong, obtuse. Corolla blueiah with dark veins. Ovary minutely pubescent up- 

 wards ; one stigma-lobe oblong, the other bifid. — Easily separated from IE. glcmca by 

 its habit, opposite leaves and large flowers. 



5. £■ zeylanica, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 74; trailing branches pubes- 

 cent, leaves elliptic subobtuse narrowed at the base, spikes cylindric, bracts 

 obovate slightly longer than the flowers, corolla 3— J in. T. Anders, in Journ. 

 lAnn. Soc. ix. 451, esecl. syn. B. glauca, T. Anders, in Thwaites Unum. 224, 

 not in Nees. Erythracanthus elongatus, Dah. Sf Gibs. JBomb. Fl. 184, not 

 of Nees. 



W. Decoan Peniusttia and Ceylon ; Concan, Salzell, Stooks, &c. Ceylon ; 

 Macrae, Thwaites. 



Stem erect, short, with large leaves, and flowering runners with much smaller 

 leaves. Leaves 3 by 1 in., subentire, sparsely hairy on both surfaces, or glabrate with 

 nerves beneath pubescent ; petiole ^ in., or in the leaves of the lateral branches 0. 

 Spi/kes 1-2 in., dense ; bracts J by | in., obtuse, apiculate, strongly 1-nerved ; brac- 

 teoles ^ in., linear-spathulate. /Sepofo 4, linear, rather shorter than the bracts; the 

 fifth rather broader, linear, subacute. Corolla, stamens, and capsule nearly as of JB. 

 glauca. 



6. E. thyrsoidea, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Par. iii. 80, and in DC. 

 Prodr. li. 75 ; stem erect hairy, leaves petioled eUiptic-spathulate subobtuse, 

 spikes cylindric thyrsoid, bracts oblong very acute scarcely longer than the 

 flowers, corolla j in. Wall. Cat. 7149. E. zeylanioa, T. Anders, in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 461, partly. B. diffusa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 

 74. Capraria diffusa, Soxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 93, fide Kurz. 



East Peontiee from Cachar, Keenan, to Tenasserim, Beddome ; plentiful in 

 Chittagong, J. D. S., &c. 



Stem 8-18 in., decumbent at the very base, then erect, longer than the ascending 

 branches. Leaves 3 by | in., hairy. Spikes axillary and terminal 1-4 in. ; pedicels 

 of the lower flowers -^-J m. ; bracteoles with fine hairs often ^-J in. long. Sepals 4, 

 Eubsimilar, linear, with fine long hairs; the fifth longer, narrowly lanceolate, twice as 

 broad. Corolla (at least often) white or very nearly so. Otherwise as M. zet/lanica, 

 with which T. Anderson united this species ; but it appears amply distinct. 



7. E. incana, Hassle. Sort. Bogor. 147 ; stem short subereot scarcely 

 branched, leaves petioled elliptic shortly softly hairy on both surfaces, spikes 

 cylindric, bracts lanceolate shorter than the calyx not aristate, corolla J in. 

 B. velutina, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 76 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 452. 



MEEaui ; Griffith. Tbnasseeim (or Andamans), Selfer (Kew Distrib. 11. 6080). 

 — DiSTElB. Java ? 



Stem decumbent, base almost woody, then erect, 3-4 in., closely rusty-villous. 

 Leaves Ahy\^ in., obtuse,.base narrowed, subentire ; petiole J-1 in. Spii:esl-\l in., 

 dense; bracts i in,; bracteoles ^ in., broadly lanceolate, closely softly hairy. Sepals, 

 two ^ in. linear, two nearly j in. linear, one ^ in. lanceolate ; all slightly pubescent 

 and ciliate. Corolla and stamens nearly as in IE. glutinosa. Capsule | in. — Nees 

 says that this is nearly the same as j;. iMcaMS, Hassk., of which I have seen no specimen ; 

 and Kurz says (Journ. As. Soc. 1870, pt. ii. 78) that it is quite the same. By habit, 

 bracts and indumentum it approaches IE. macrophylla, T. Anders. 



8. E. lanceolata, Hassk. Sort. Bogor. 147 ; stems short branched 

 suberect, leaves oblong or narrowly elliptic cuneate at both ends glabrate 

 or minutely pubescent beneath, spikes cylindric dense, bracts oblong acute. 



