26 Dr. Jack on Cyrtandracea, 



so long as the petiole, supporting a round dense head of 

 flowers, which is embraced at the base by a monophyllous, 

 three- or four-parted involucre, and by several large bracts 

 within it. Flowers white, numerous, nearly sessile, aggre- 

 gated into a round head. Calyx tubular, somewhat woolly, 

 divided at the mouth into five linear segments, generally 

 more deeply cloven on one side. Corolla infundibuliform, 

 much longer than the calyx, expanding at the mouth ; limb 

 divided into five rather unequal lobes. Stamina two, shorter 

 than the corolla, and inserted on its tube, joined by their 

 anthers ; the rudiments of two abortive stamina. Anthers 

 of two parallel lobes, which are woolly at their base. Ovary 

 embraced at the base by a nectarial ring, long, two-celled ; 

 cells bipartite by the revolute lobes of the dissepiments. 

 Style as long as the stamina. Stigma infundibuliform. 

 Berry oblong, somewhat curved, cylindrical, acuminate, 

 two-celled, many-seeded ; seeds arranged round the revo- 

 lute lobes of the septa, small, roundish. 



2. Cyrtandra maculata. 



C. foliis subrotundo-cordatis acutis serratis supra glabris, co- 



roUae lobis tribus inferioribus macula purpurea. 

 Sumatra. 



A low herbaceous plant. Leaves opposite, one abortive, the 

 other petiolate, round-cordate, acute, serrated, smooth 

 above, somewhat villous beneath ; about four inches long, 

 by four and a half broad. Flowers capitate, involucred, 

 axillary. Calyx tubular, five-toothed. Corolla much longer 

 than the calyx, white, with a large purple spot on each of 

 the three lower lobes ; limb five-lobed, sub-irregular. Sta- 

 mina two fertile, two sterile. Style one. Berry oblong, 



J many- 



