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Eranthemum (Flowers white pink red)

Flowers white, pink, red, or lilac, variously disposed; calyx deeply five-cleft, the segments short, narrow, sub-equal; corolla tube elongated, the limb spreading, five-partite; stamens two. Leaves entire, or rarely deeply toothed. To the species described on p. 518, Vol. 1., the following should now be added:

E. borneense (Borneo). fl. crowded round the rachis, forming a conical inflorescence; calyx 1/3in. long; corolla white, with a faint tinge of lemon, the tube lin. long, cylindric, the limb 1 1/2in. in diameter, obscurely two-lipped, quite flat; spike 4in. to 6in. long; peduncle stout, erect. l. 4in. to 6in. long, shortly petiolate. ovate-oblong, acuminate, entire, rounded or acute at base, glabrous, studded with raphides. Borneo, 1882. A nearly glabrous shrub. (B. M. 6701.) E. macrophyllum (large-leaved). fl. light blue, in terminal and axillary spikes; upper and side lobes of the corolla reflexed on the sides of the long, whitish tube; lower petal or lip projecting, and of a deeper blue than the other lobes. Winter. India, 1886.

E. velutinum (velvety). fl. of a deep rosepink, in long spikes; tube slender, curved, 1in. long. l. deep velvety olive-green, bullate. 1886. A distinct and pretty shrub.