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Dr. Jack on Cyrtandracee, 
flowered. Jnvolucre closely investing the head, and nearly 
as long as the flowers. Flowers yellow. Calyx tubular, 
angled, nearly as long as the tube of the corolla. Corolla 
sub-campanulate ; limb nearly equal, five-lobed. Stamina 
two, with two sterile filaments. Style one. Stigma bila- 
biate. Berry oblong, two-celled, many-seeded, as in the | 
genus. 
Oss. The yellow colour of the flowers is an unusual occurrence 
in this family ; white is almost without exception the pre- 
vailing colour. 
8. CYRTANDRA PELTATA. 
C. foliis peltatis ovatis acuminatis. 
Sumatra. 
Stem ascending, round, smooth. Leaves long-petioled, the op- 
posite petiole abortive, peltate, ovate, rounded at the base, 
acuminate above, obtusely serrate, smooth, paler beneath, 
eight or ten inches long. Heads axillary, very short-pe- 
duncled, involucred. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla white, in- 
fundibular; limb five-lobed, sub-irregular. Stamina two, 
sterile filaments two. Ovary embraced by a nectarial ring. 
Style one. Berry oblong, many-seeded, as in the genus. 
9. CYRTANDRA CARNOSA. 
C. foliis lanceolato-oblongis basi obliquis carnosis oppositis, 
altero minimo subrotundo. 
Creeping or scandent, obscurely four-sided, smooth. Leaves 
opposite, unequal ; the one lanceolate-oblong, oblique at 
the base, entire, thick, fleshy, veinless, smooth above, to- 
mentose beneath, about seven or eight inches long; the 
other small, cordate, subrotund, acuminate. Heads axil- 
lary, 
