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about length of leaves ; flowers rather large, 1| inch ; tube short, 

 limb white, pink transverse reticulations on lower lip ; calyx 

 } } inch, 5-lobed. 



Aechmanthera. — A Himalayan genus of only one species, Clarke's 

 leiosperma being, I believe, a synonym, 

 tomentosa, Nees in "Wall. PI. As. Rar." iii. 87. — Himalayas, 

 8,000 5,000 feet elevation. Syn. Ruellia tomentosa. A softly- 

 woolly or villous undershrub. Leaves elliptic, hairy ; panicles up to 

 1 foot long ; flowers 3-8, clustered ; bracts \ inch, linear, as long 

 as calyx ; calyx 5-lobed, segments linear, subequal ; corolla 1 inch, 

 tubular, ventricose, nearly straight, widened suddenly near the 

 middle ; segments 5, subequal, violet-purple. 



Ancylogyne longiflora, see Sanchezia longiflora. 



Anisacanthus 



virg-ularis, Nees, DC. "Prod." xi. 445; (fig. "Rev. Hort." 1872, 

 50). Sometimes grown under the name of Justicia quadrifida. — 

 Mexico. Leaves lanceolate, narrow ; flowers axillary, solitary, 

 long-tubed, nearly 2 inches, red. A very pretty plant for the 

 intermediate house. 



Wrightii, A. Gray, "Fl. N. Amer." ii. 328. — Texas and Oaxaca, 

 Mexico ; 500-8,000 feet elevation. Leaves oblong to ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, 1-2 inches long ; spikes loosely panicled ; calyx 

 5-cleft ; corolla purplish-red, 1 \ inch long, the lobes shorter than 

 the tube ; very shy to flower. 

 Anisotes 



diversifolius, Balf. f., "Proc. R. Soc. Edin." xii. (1888-88) ; (fig. 

 Balfour, " Bot. of Socotra," t. xxiv.). — Socotra. Leaves rotund or 

 obovate, sbort-petioled ; cymes short (about 1 inch), axillary, few- 

 flowered ; calyx \ inch ; corolla reddish, H inch long ; tube 

 narrow, cylindric, bilabiate about half-way up from the base, 

 slightly hairy ; lobes reflexed, upper one entire, lower slightly 

 fcrifid. 



A curious little plant with honeysuckle-like flowers. Intro- 

 duced lately by Mr. Lynch of the Cambridge Botanical Garden. 

 Anth acanthus.— This genus differs from Eranthemum chiefly in the 

 much shorter tube to the corolla and in being furnished with 

 spines. 



jamaicensis, Gris , "Fl. West Ind." 457.— West Indies. A 

 small, rather wiry, small-leaved plant, resembling a dwarf Box, 

 with axillary, setaceous spines ; flowers pedicelled, axillary, small, 

 white, tube recurved, limb bilabiate, of 5 segments, the upper 

 two rather smaller than the others. This was sent out by 

 Mr. Bull under the name of Eranthemum Hookcri (an unpub- 

 lished name, I believe), and it has been grown as such in various 

 gardens. Rather a pretty little stove pot plant, somewhat in the 

 way of Eranthemum tuberculatum, but very inferior to that plant. 

 Aphelandra. — A beautiful genus of showy stove plants. The species 

 most commonly met with are aurantiaea, Blanchetiana, 

 Chamissoniana, Fascinator, squarrosa, nitens, and tetra- 

 g*ona. They require considerable heat to grow well, but flower 



