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6. Cyrtandra incompta. 



C. hirsuta, foliis elliptico-ovatis serratis, floribus capitatis hirsu- 



tis, involucro diphyllo. 

 Langkabang. Malay. 

 Native of Sumatra. 



Herbaceous, erect, shaggy with brown hair. Leaves alternate 

 from the abortion of the opposite leaf, of which there is 

 sometimes a rudiment observable, long-petioled, elliptic- 

 ovate, acute, serrated, villous ; six inches long, retioks 

 about three inches long, densely villous with brown hair. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, shorter than the petioles, bear- 

 ing a small compact head of sessile flowers, the whole 

 densely woolly. Involucre of two ovate, acute leaflets. 

 Calyx tubular, covered with brown wool, quinquefid. Co- 

 rolla villous without, infundibuliform ; limb five-parted, 

 nearly equal. Stamina two, conniving, joined by their 

 anthers. A7ithers with erect parallel lobes. Ovary em- 

 braced by a nectarial ring. Style one. Berry as in the 

 genus. Seeds foveolate. 



This plant is remarkable for the shagginess of all its parts. 



7. Cyrtandra aurea. 

 C. foliis oppositis subrotundo-ovatis acuminatis serratis sericeo- 



pilosis, capitulis densis subsessilibus. 

 At the foot of Gunong Bunko, interior of Bencoolen. 



A large strong erect species ; stem thick, four-sided, with rounded 

 angles, pilose with appressed hairs. Leaves opposite, both 

 perfect, long-petioled, subrotund-ovate, very large, acu- 

 minate, serrate, sericeously pilose, particularly on the 



.,'■, under surface. Hearfs axillary, sub-sessile, densely many- 

 flowered. 



