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lary, short-peduncled, three- to seven-flowered. Involucre 

 of two ovate acuminate leaflets. Flowers white, very short- 

 pedicelled. Calyx short, five-toothed. Corolla much longer 

 than the calyx, infundibular ; limb five-lobed, nearly equal. 

 Stamina two fertile, shorter than the corolla; Jilaments 

 curved, broader above ; two sterile ; lobes of the anthers 

 slightly unequal. Sti/le simple. Stigma dilated. Berry 

 two-celled, many-seeded ; placentation as in the genus. 



**" 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. 



Obs. This species and the following differ considerably in habit 

 from the other Cyrtandra, 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 



