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Dr. Jacx on Cyrtandracee, 
so long as the petiole, supporting a round dense head of 
flowers, which is embraced at the base by a monophyllous, 
three- or four-parted involucre, and by several large bracts 
within it. Flowers white, numerous, nearly sessile, aggre- 
gated into a round head. Calyx tubular, somewhat woolly, 
divided at the mouth into five linear segments, generally 
more deeply cloven on one side. Corolla infundibuliform, 
much longer than the calyx, expanding at the mouth; Amb 
divided into five rather unequal lobes. Stamina two, shorter 
than the corolla, and inserted on its tube, joined by their 
anthers ; the rudiments of two abortive stamina. — Anthers 
of two parallel lobes, which are woolly at their base. Ovary 
. embraced at the base by a nectarial ring, long, two-celled ; 
cells bipartite by the revolute lobes of the dissepiments. 
Style as long as the stamina. Stigma infundibuliform. 
Berry oblong, somewhat curved, cylindrical, acuminate, 
two-celled, many-seeded ; seeds arranged round the revo- 
lute lobes of the septa, small, roundish. 
2. CYRTANDRA MACULATA. 
C. foliis subrotundo-cordatis acutis serratis supra glabris, co- 
rollæ lobis tribus inferioribus macula purpura: 
Sumatra. 
A low herbaceous plant. Leaves opposite, one abortive, the 
other petiolate, round-cordate, acute, serrated, smooth 
above, somewhat villous beneath; about four inches long, 
by four and a half broad. Flowers- capitate, involucred, 
axillary. Calyx tubular, five-toothed. Corolla much longer 
than the calyx, white, with a large purple spot on each of 
the three lower lobes ; limb five-lobed, sub-irregular. - Sta- 
mina two fertile, two. sterile. Style one. Berry oblong, 
many- 
