CYRTANDRACE/E MALAY INSULARIS NOV FK. 275 
Cyrtandracee Malays insularis nove. By Dr. Fr. Kuiszurx. 
(Communicated by Dr. Orro Srarr, F.L.S.) 
[Read 21st December, 1905.] 
I propose to publish here a small number of new species of 
Malayan Cyrtandracem, the type-specimens of which are all in 
the Herbarium of the Royal Botanie Gardens at Kew, and, so 
far as I know, only there. 
It is, of course, unsafe to draw conclusions from a study of a 
limited number of plants; still, some remarks of a more general 
character may be permissible. There are among the plants 
described here four species of Cyrtandra. They belong to the 
vast section Polynesie, are of Philippine origin, resemble dwarf, 
branchy oaks, and are all modifications of a type which so far 
has had its only known representative in Oyrtandra parvifolia, 
C. B. Clarke. Among the Polynesie they form a small natural 
group which we may call Parviflore, after the species which 
was first made known. Extending the process of subdividing 
large sections into more or less clearly defined groups of species 
to the Decurrentes, another extensive section of Cyrtandra, we 
find a nucleus of sueh a group in one of the two species of 
Decurrentes described below. It is C. rhizantha, which possesses 
so peculiar a manner of growth that a special place may 
be claimed for it. lt contrasts as the type of a subsection 
Heteroblaste with the remainder of the Decurrentes, which 
may be termed Homoitoblaste, the latter including another new 
species of Decurrentes, C. gracilenta. The sections Jackiane, 
Stellate, and .Dispares are each represented by a single 
species and do not call for subdividing or rearranging these 
sections. 
Among the new and beautiful species of Aschynanthus, 
Æ. Fraseriana is the only one that deserves some special con- 
sideration on account of its apparent dimorphism or possible 
tendency towards dicecism. I have seen a single specimen of it. 
Of this, all the flowers had well-developed stamen with long 
filaments, whilst the pistil was so short and imperfect that the 
speeimen must be either considered as the brachystylous form of 
the species—the complementary macrostylous form being stiil 
unknown—or as functionally male. Further observations on 
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