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Herba annua erecta copiose ramosa sesquipedalis, caule rubro subtereto, ramis tetragonis. Folia 

 petiolata elliptica v. ovata acuta basi plerumque abrupte in petiolum lamina longiorem 

 attenuata 2|— 3 poll, longa 1-1^ poll lata subcrassa glabra 5-nervia. Inflorescentia 

 dichasialis foliosa erecta. Flores 5-meri mediocri cernui pedicellati ; pedicelli subtiles 1 

 poll, longi. Calycis lobi lanceolati acuminati dorsaliter late carinato-alati, carinis v. alis 

 rugosis rotundatis. Corollas segmenta obovata margine undulata -^ poll, longa violacea 

 Antheras flavse oblongse \ poll, longse sursum vix attenuatse incurvatse maturitate ad 

 apices debiscentes. Capsula subglobosa g poll. diam. 



Soeotra. Not at all uncommon beside the streams. B.C.S. n. 82. 

 Schweinf. n. 466. 



Distrib. Endemic. 



A beautiful species quite distinct from, but closely allied to E. petiolare, 

 Griseb. (in DC. Prod. ix. 46), a plant of the Indian Peninsula. In habit and 

 foliage the plants are extremely alike, but our plant has pentamerous not 

 tetramerous flowers, its petaline lobes do not diminish upwards, and the calyx 

 wings in fruit are more rounded. Its flowers, too, are always violet, not white 

 as is typical of the Indian species. 



The Socotran plant has been successfully raised, from seed sent by Schwein- 

 furth, by Messrs Haage and Schmidt at Erfurt, and a plant which flowered with 

 them is figured by Regel in the Gartenjlora. He, however, is mistaken in 

 describing the leaves as three-nerved. In our dried specimens and. in Schwein- 

 furth's, they are distinctly five-nerved, the outermost veins being close to the 

 margin of the leaf. It is a pretty plant for cultivation. 



3. E. gracilipes, Balf. fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. xii. (1883), 80. 



Annuum erectum ramosissimum ; foliis lanceolatis acutis petiolatis 3-nerviis ; floribus graciliter 

 pedicellatis cernuis 5-meris ; calycis lobis auguste alatis ; corollae lobis obovatis cseruleis ; 

 antberis ad medium lateraliter debisceutibus. 



Herba annua erecta fastigiatim a basi ramosissima, caule subtetragono, ramis tetraquetris in 

 inflorescentiam copiose dicbasialiter ramosam excurrentibus. Folia lanceolata acuta 1-1£ 

 poll, longa ^-^ poll, lata basi in petiolum brevem attenuata margine revoluta crassiuscula 

 glabra. Flores 5-meri cernui ad apices pedicellorum gracilium f poll, longorum. Calycis 

 lacinise \ poll, longse acuminatas dorsaliter auguste alatse, ala semilunari oblique rugosa 

 Corollas lobi obovati obtusi § poll, longi cserulei. Antheras flavse oblongae sursum vix 

 attenuatse et incurvatse, loculis lateraliter ad medium dehiscentibus. Capsula globosa £ 

 poll diam. 



Soeotra. On dry spots of the hill slopes. B.C.S. n. 84. 



Distrib. Endemic. 



Possibly this finds a near ally in E. pedunculatum, Linn. (Griseb. in DC. 

 Prod. ix. 46), an Indian plant of considerable distribution, from which, however, 

 amongst other characteristics, the pentamerous symmetry, which it possesses 

 in common with the other Socotran species, separates it. With the foregoing 

 species it has many points of resemblance, but is altogether a smaller and 



