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CROSSANDRA Fuava. 
Yellowlowered Crossandra. 
Nat. Ord. AcANTHACE®.—DipYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char, Calyx quinquepartitus, laciniis latis, interioribus brevioribus. Co- 
rolla tubo longo, limbo plano quinquefido superne ad tubum usque diviso. Sta- 
mina quatuor, didynama, in tubo latentia. Anthere uniloculares, hirtee, margine 
ciliatze. Capsula compressa, bivalvis, a basi tetrasperma. Dissepimentum adna- 
tum.—Frutices Indie orientalis ( Africeque occidentalis tropica), foliis subintegerri- 
mis speciosis rubris ( flavisve). Spica terminalis tetragona, bracteis oppositis latis 
herbaceis, propriis angustis membranaceis. Nees. 
CrossanpRa flava; caule brevi glaberrimo, foliis glabris obovato-lanceolatis un- 
dulatis sinuato-pinnatifidis yersus apicem integerrimis obtusiusculis, inferi- 
oribus petiolatis, spica terminali exacte tetragona strobiliformi, bracteis ex- 
terioribus amplis rotundatis acute carinatis hirsutissimis venosis margine 
spinuloso-dentatis, corollis flavis. 
A more intimate acquaintance with this plant than we at pre- 
sent possess, may bring to light characters, especially in the fruit, 
at variance with the genus to which we have referred it, Crossan- 
dra ; a genus, we believe, hitherto supposed to be peculiarly of 
East Indian origin, and in no instance having, as here, yellow 
flowers. 
Our plant is a native of tropical Western Africa, having been 
gathered in the fissures of rocks upon the Sugar-loaf Mountain, 
Sierra Leone, and sent to the Botanic Garden in Regent’s Park, 
by Mr. Whitfield, on his late return from Africa. Mr. Marnock 
was so obliging as to forward the flowering specimen to us In 
January 1853. 
_ Drscr. The plant is shrubby, but it does not rise more than 
six to eight inches above the surface of the ground, and is un- 
branched. The stem terete, dark green, glabrous. Leaves ap- 
proximate, spreading, large for the size of the plant, a span or 
more long, obovato-lanceolate, glabrous, dark green above, paler 
APRIL Ist, 18538. 
