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unequal, ciliate ; corolla-tube about ^ inch long, slightly enlarging 

 towards the apex, lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, finely ciliate, the two 

 lobes of the upper lip smaller than the others, the middle one of 

 the lower lip much the largest ; anthers exserted ; stigma incon- 

 spicuously 2-lobed. 



This is variegatum, Hort. of the Kew List of 1899, p. 271. It 

 is also to be met with in gardens under this name. I cannot, 

 however, find any authority for the name, and the plant appears to 

 be undescribed. In the Herbarium of the Natural History Museum 

 there is a specimen of Eranthemum Carruthersii, Seem. "JJL Vit." 

 (a Fiji plant), which may perhaps be the same as this species, as it 

 agrees in the inflorescence and short corolla-tube; but the specimen 

 is not sufficient for identification, being very poor as to leaves ; 

 the ciliation also of the calyx, bracts, and corolla-lobes is absent. 

 Seeman's description is very short and insufficient. 



Generally grown from cuttings as a small pot plant for its 

 pretty foliage, being topped and grown on again when it gets leggy ; 

 it never flowers under these conditions. A plant has lately flowered 

 at Kew, so I have been able to give a full description. 



velutinum, Bull, "Cat. New Plants," 1887-8, p. 32.— Brazil. 

 Leaves showy, dark olive-green ; spikes 8 inches long, terminal ; 

 flowers rosy-pink, small, numerous ; corolla tube curved, 

 slender, 1 inch long. Sent out by Mr. W. Bull in 1886. 

 Hardly more than of botanical interest. It is not E. velutinum 

 of Engler's " Bot. Jahrb.," which is from New Guinea; so one 

 of these names must be changed. 



verbenaceum, Mart, in "Nov. Act. Not. Cur." xi. 1 (1823), 

 65. — Brazil. Leaves oblong, attenuated at base, glabrous, 

 silvery lined on both sides ; spike terminal, simple or trifid ; 

 flowers white ; corolla twice as long as calyx. 



versicolor, Bull ex "Gard. Chron." (1875), i. p. 619.— Hab ? 

 Leaves long-stalked, ovate, narrowed at the base, sinuate, ground 

 colour dark green splashed over with greyish-green and yellowish- 

 green in broad patches. Sent out by Mr. Bull in 1875. I do not 

 know this plant. 



Whartonianum, Hemsley, in " Kew Bull.," 1894, p. 214. — Solomon 



Islands. Leaves thin, almost membranaceous, ovate, oblong, or the 

 upper ones narrow -lanceolate, up to 5 inches long, very minutely 

 strigose above, puberulous on the veins beneath ; petiole slender, 

 \ inch ; flowers white, 14 inch long, on terminal, racemose spikes, 

 the lower branches of which are cymose and several-flowered ; 

 calyx-segments subulate, short ; corolla-tube straight, slightly 

 ventricose, lobes ovate-oblong, slightly unequal. 



Eranthemum pulcherrimum, Anderson, from Oaxaca, Mexico, 

 a very fine species, with very long tubular flower, and E. BourgfOei, 

 Hemsley, Mexico, near Guadalaxara, with very large, much swollen 

 flowers liko those of Fagrata, would w<>11 repay introduction to our 

 houses. 



