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lary, short-peduncled, three- to seven-flowered. Inwolucre 
of two ovate acuminate leaflets. Flowers white, very short- 
pedicelled. Calyx short, five-toothed. Corolla much longer 
than the calyx, infundibular ; /imb five-lobed, nearly equal. 
Stamina two fertile, shorter than the corolla; filaments 
‘curved, broader above; two sterile; lobes of the anthers 
slightly unequal. Style simple. Stigma dilated. Berry 
two-celled, many-seeded ; placentation as in the genus. 
10 me Frutescentes, corolla bilabiata. 
10. CYRTANDRA FRUTESCENS. 
C. erecta, foliis oppositis lanceolatis serratis glabris, pedunculis 
axillaribus trifloris. 
. Suffrutescent, erect. Leaves opposite, petiolate, broad-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, serrate, smooth ; seven to nine inches long. 
* Peduncles axillary, generally three-flowered, not so long as 
the petioles. Bracts linear, at the base of the pedicels. 
Calyx five-parted ; segments subulate, erect. Corolla pur- 
plish, bilabiate, the lower lip longer, three-lobed ; lobes 
very shallow. Stamina two fertile, two sterile. Stigma 
dilated, sub-bilabiate. Berry cylindrical, longer than in 
the other species, two-celled ; lobes of the septa. revolute, 
biparting the cells, and seminiferous on their whole surface. 
Seeds naked. 
Oss. This.species and the following differ considerably i in habit 
from the other Cyrtandre, and have more resemblance to 
Didymocarpus frutescens ; from. which, however, they are 
distinguished by their baccate fruit, and by the insertion of 
the seeds upon the whole surface of the lobes of the disse- 
piment; while in Didymocarpus they are attached only to 
the edge. These species might perhaps be separated from 
Cyrtandra 
