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_ tailed seeds, occurs also iv Java. 
| by a single species apparently identical with one from Java. 
MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON CYRTANDRACERX MALAYENSES, 497 
CYRTANDRACEA Manayenses. By H.N. wh, M.A., F.L.S. 
[Read 4th April, 1895.] 
THE number of plants belonging to the Order Cyrtandracee 
recorded from the Malayan Peninsula in the ‘Flora of British 
India’ (vol. iv.) is very small in comparison with the number 
which are now known. The reason for this lies in the fact 
that the best localities, the hill districts of the interior, were, 
at the time the work was written, practically inaccessible to 
botanists, and these plants are usually so local that every hill 
range may be expected to produce new kinds. The richest 
locality I have visited is the Thaiping Hills, in Perak, where 
the roadside banks are often brilliant with the flowers of 
Didymocarpi, Didissandre, and other plants of this order, but 
Mr. Curtis has found even a richer store in the Lankawi 
Islands, north of Penang. Here, where the rocks are of lime- 
stone, species of Bawa, Chirita, and Didymocarpus abound. The 
extensive hill regions of the central range of the peninsula 
have not yet been explored, but there is little doubt but that 
they will add largely to our store of these plants, when they 
are opened up to collectors. 
The peculiarly limited distribution of the species of Indian 
Didymocarpi has been pvinted out by Mr. C. B. Clarke, in his 
Monograph (in DC. Monog. Phan., v. p. 5), and the same 
peculiarity holds here. 
The Aschynanthi at present number eleven species, of which 
all but four occur also in Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, two are 
also natives of Burmah and Siam, and two are endemic. The 
single species of Agalmyla which, like Aischynanthus, has 
Rhynchotechum is represented 
The single species of Epithema is a native of Java, but if, as 
I think, the other Asiatic species are but forms of one, its 
distribution extends also over India, Ceylon, and the eastern 
islands as far as Timor and the Philippines, being perhaps 
the most widely distributed of any Asiatic species in the 
order. It stands alone in having a pyxis-capsule, the top 
of which falling off exposes the seeds, which are washed out 
by rain, or shaken out possibly by wind, and adhering by 
LINN. JOURN.—BOTANY, VOL. XXXII. 2k 
