DAEDALACANTHUS (from daedalos, various-coloured, and Acanthus, to which it is related). SYN. Eranthemum (in part). ORD. Acanthaceae. A genus comprising fourteen species of stove, erect, glabrous or pubescent shrubs or sub-shrubs, natives of the East Indies and the Malayan Archipelago. Flowers blue, pink (or white?), sessile in the axils of opposite bracts, bi-bracteolate, forming dense or interrupted spikes; calyx deeply five-lobed or five-parted; corolla tube elongated, slender, incurved above, the limb oblique, spreading, five-lobed; perfect stamens two. Leaves entire or scarcely toothed. DAEDALACANTHUS macrophyllus is an erect, minutely pubescent, stove, perennial herb. "It belongs to a class of Acanthaceous plants that are very suitable for winter decoration, flowering freely under proper treatment, which consists very much in careful watering at the time when, in their native country, little or no rain falls" (Sir J. D. Hooker). For culture, see Eranthemum. DAEDALACANTHUS macrophyllus (large-leaved). fl., calyx minute; corolla pale violet-blue, 1 1/4in. to 1 1/2in. long, the limb about 3/4in. in diameter; spikes long-pedunculate, strict, erect, 3/8in. long, narrow; bracts 1/2in. to 3/4in. long, loosely imbricated. Winter. l. petiolate; lower ones 5in. to 9in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, the base decurrent on the petiole, the margins sometimes obscurely serrulate or denticulate. h. 2ft. to 3ft. Birma. (B. M. 6686.)