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pot foliage plant, in which state it is very pretty, but it never 

 flowers treated like this. In time it gets leggy and unsightly. 

 It has been grown at Kew as Eranthemum sp. ?, and I believe 

 it is the Eranthemum albo -marginatum of Nicholson's " Diet, of 

 Gardening." 



Earlii, Mueller, "Frag. Phyt. Aust." iii. 160 and vi. 87.— Queens- 

 land. Shrubby, glabrous. Leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 

 attenuated into a short petiole, acute or obtuse, entire or incon- 

 spicuously toothed ; flowers red, axillary, solitary or few-clustered ; 

 corolla tube about 1 inch long, curved, 2-lipped, upper lip shortly 

 bifid, lower 3-lobed ; lobes lanceolate. A small- leaved species, 

 the leaves being only about 1 inch long. 



hortense, Nees in "Wall. Pi. As. Rar." iii. 102; (fig. "Bjt. Mag." 

 t. 1870) ; " Bot. Reg." t. 1227.— Uncertain where wild ; cultivated 

 throughout India. Leaves elliptic, curiously marbled with white, 

 often representing faces, hence called the "caricature plant"; 

 racemes axillary or terminal ; flowers inflated in the throat, 

 crimson. 



var. lurido-sang-uineum (fig. " Bot. Mag." t. 1780).— Leaves 

 of a lurid-reddish colour. 



var. igneum. — Leaves splashed with red markings. 



var. Nortonii. — Of Continental origin. Leaves dark green. 

 The caricature markings lurid-red or pink, or partly yellow. 

 Gymnostachyum. — A genus of scarcely more than botanical interest, 

 ceylanicum, DC, "Prod." xi. 93; (fig. "Bot. Mag." t. 4706); 

 Bedd. "Ic. PI. Ind. Or." t. 265.— Ceylon, in the plains. A low- 

 growing herb. Leaves oval to obovate, obscurely serrate, tapering 

 into a long petiole, midrib and main veins white-banded ; racemes 

 terminal, scapiform, up to 1 foot long ; flowers fascicled on very 

 short, glandular-pubescent pedicels ; the 5 calyx- segments red ; 

 corolla white, tipped with green and yellow, tube elongate, j inch, 

 glandular- pubescent, nearly cylindric, but suddenly below the middle 

 dilated upwards ; limb unequally 2-lipped, lower lip much the larger, 

 3-lobed. 



deeurrens, Stapf, "Kew Bull." (1894), 357.— Pahang, Malay 

 Peninsula. Leaves ovate, obscurely crenate, abruptly contracted 

 into the petiole, often with a whitish band along the purplish 

 midrib, up to 4 inches long by 2 inches broad ; panicles terminal, 

 composed of slender many-flowered spikes ; corolla glandular- 

 pilose, white, violet-lined ; tube J inch, twice as long as calyx, 

 expanding slightly upwards ; upper lip emarginate, lower 3-lobed. 



venustum, DC, " Prod." xi. 94 ; (fig. " Bot. Reg." t. 1380).— Khasia 

 hills, up to 4,000 feet elevation. Leaves ovate, acuminate, crenate, 

 decurrent into a winged petiole, the radical ones about 6 inches 

 by 4 inches ; panicles pubescent, ample, much spreading, up to 

 8 inches long by 12 inches broad, or sometimes reduced to a 

 single spike, pubescent ; calyx glandular-pilose, 5-fid ; corolla- 

 tube about 1 inch long, dilated towards the apex ; limb bilabiate, 

 deep purple, upper lip 2-fid, lower 3-fid. Syn. Justicia venusta ; 

 C ryp t upliragm mm venus turn. 



