4^ Dr. Jack on CyrtandracecB, 



sert ; anthers two-celled, each pair united by their apices ; 

 there is no rudiment of a fifth stamen. Style a little longer 

 than the stamina. Stigma thick, somewhat funnel-shaped. 

 Capsule pedicellate, about eighteen inches long, cylindrical, 

 two-valved, two-celled, cells bipartite by the revolute lobes 

 of the septa. Seeds very numerous, aristate at both ends, 

 precisely as in the preceding species. 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES IN TAB. II. 



Fig. 1. Cyrtandra macrophylla. 



a. The calyx. 



b. The flower. 



c. The corolla cut open, showing the stamina. 



d. A fertile stamen separate. 



e. The pistil with its nectarial ring. ' 

 /. The fruit. 



g. A transverse section of the same. 

 All these are of the natural size. 

 Fig. 2. Didymocarpus crinita. 



a. The calyx. 



b. The flower. 



c. The corolla cut open, showing the stamina. 



d. A fertile stamen. 



e. The pistil with its nectarial ring. 



/'. A transverse section of the capsule. 



g. The capsule. 



All these are of the natural size. 



h. A transverse section of the capsule magnified. 



i. One of the dissepiments with its revolute lobes, 



■ showing the manner in which the seeds are in- 



"^^ ' serted in their margin, magnified. 



Fig. 



