30 Df' Jack on CyrtandracecB, 



flowered. Involucre 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. 

 Obs. 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. 



