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CYRTANDRA, Forst. 
Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla infundibuliformis, ad faucem 
ampliatus, limbo quinquelobo subirregulari, rarius bilabiato. 
Stamina quatuor, quorum duo antherifera. Bacca oblonga, 
calyce longior; dissepimenti lobis per totam superficiem 
seminiferis. Semina nuda, sæpe foveolata v. punctata. 
Folia opposita, altero plerumque abortivo aut nano. Flores sæpis- 
sime capitati involucrati. 
* Herbacez corollà subirregulari. 
1. CYRTANDRA MACROPHYLLA. 
| T'as. II. Fig. 1. a—g. 
C. folis subrotundo-ovatis serratis glabris, involucro mono- 
phyllo, pedunculis petiolo brevioribus. 
Selabang. Malay. 
Native of the interior of Sumatra. 
Suberect. Branches thick, four-sided, with rounded angles, and 
two opposite sides deeply furrowed. Leaves apparently 
alternate, but in reality opposite, the petioles springing 
from the joints of the stem, perfect on one side, but abor- 
tive on the other, forming nothing more than a short ligula 
without a leaf; subrotund-ovate, acute, serrated withrounded 
blunt serratures, smooth on both sides, dark-green above, 
whitish beneath, with strongly prominent nerves : a foot in 
length by about nine inches broad.  Petioles eight or nine 
inches long, thick, embracing the stem at the joint, and 
uniting with the base of the opposite petiole, which is only 
one or two inches long, and tapers into a point without 
ever expanding into a leaf. Peduncles opposite, from the 
axils both of the perfect and abortive petioles, slender, not 
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