230 VEGETATION OF THE FEEJEE ISLANDS. 
These specimens are in fruit only, and I am unable to ascer- — 
tain the structure of their flowers farther than that they have 
not the calyx of C. calycina. On the other hand some 
Cyrtandre with a very different habit have a membranous 
tubular calyx. Not having, however, good specimens of any 
considerable number of Cyrtandree, I have preferred publish- 
ing the species now described under that generic name, to 
attempting to divide the genus without better materials. 
Besides the great inequality of the leaves of each pair, in 
this and many other Cyrtandre, the two are not exactly 
opposite. The great development of the stem immediately — 
under the large leaf of the pair next above, has thrown the — 
small one of the lower pair so much on one side as to give : 
it precisely the appearance of a stipule by the side ofthe — 
large leaf. ' pees 
Ruellia reptans, Forst. ex Willd. Spec. 3. p. 372. Herba 
reptans, radicans, glabriuscula v. pilis paucis in caule petio- = 
lisque vestita. Rami floriferi 4-6-pollicares, semel bisve. $ 
furcati. Folia longe petiolata, ovata v. oblongo-ovata, obtusa, 
grosse crenata. Pedunculi in dichotomiis 1-2-pollicares, 
floribus terminalibus paucis sessilibus subcapitatis. Bractee 
oblongee v. lineares. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla infundibuliforms, 
limbi laciniis rotundatis subequalibus. Stamina 4, di- 
dynama, inclusa, antheris oblongis, loculis æqualibus. Stigma 
tenue, bifidum, basi minute nodulosum. Ovula in qu0q0® 
loculo 6. Characteres fere Dipteracanthi, generis vix k 
Ruellia distincti. Tanna, Mr. Hinds, Mr. Barclay. zz 
= Acanthacea, with much the habit of the preceding ;b WE 
“evidently very distinct. The specimen is not in a state t0 
determine, New Guinea, Mr. Hinds. ! E" 
Boerhaavia diffusa Linn. Friendly Islands, Mr. Barclay. — ; 
Dismocheeta micrantha, DC. Tanna, Mr. Hinds. Friendly” 
Islands, Mr. Barclay. : 
Celosia argentea Linn. Amboyna, Mr. Barclay. E 
Actinodaphne multiflora, sp. n., foliis subverticillatis 5-5 
oblongis obtusis subtus glauco-czesiis glabrescentibus, = 
ferrugineis, ramulis petiolisque glabris, lorum fasciculis C 
