a new Natural Order of Plants. 25 



Cyrtandra, Forst. 



Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla infundibuliformis, ad fnucem 

 ampliatus, limbo quinquelobo subirregulari, rarius bilabiate. 

 Stamina quatuor, quorum duo antherifera. Bacca oblonga, 

 calyce longior ; dissepimenti lobis per totam superficiem 

 seminiferis. Semina nuda, saepe foveolata v. punctata. 



Folia opposita, altero plerumque abortivo aut nano. Flares sapis- 



sitne capiiati involucrati. 



?.i ; * Herbaceae corolla subirregulari. 



^ ' 1. Cyrtandra macrophylla. 



Tab. II. Fig. 1. a— g. 



C. foliis subrotundo-ovatis serratis glabris, involucro mono- 



phyllo, pedunculis petiolo brevioribus. 

 Selabang. Malay. 

 Native of the interior of Sumatra. 



Suberect. Branches thick, four-sided, with rounded angles, and 

 two opposite sides deeply furrowed. Leaves apparently 

 alternate, but in reality opposite, the petioles springing 

 from the joints of the stem, perfect on one side, but abor- 

 tive on the other, forming nothing more than a short ligula 

 without a leaf; subrotund-ovate, acute, serrated with rounded 

 blunt serratures, smooth on both sides, dark-green above, 

 whitish beneath, with strongly prominent nerves : a foot in 

 length by about nine inches broad. Petioles eight or nine 

 inches long, thick, embracing the stem at the joint, and 

 uniting with the base of the opposite petiole, which is only 

 one or two inches long, and tapers into a point without 

 ever expanding into a leaf. Peduncles opposite, from the 

 axils both of the perfect and abortive petioles, slender, not 



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