324 GESNERIACEAE. [Cyrtandra. 
2 slight protuberances at the base. Stamens 4. Cells of the anthers 
contiguous, divaricate. Style with 2 ovate stigmatic lobes. ae re nora! 
lar or compressed, opening loculicidally into 2 entire valves 
herbs. Lower leaves opposite, the upper ones alternate. Flowers in 
terminal one-sided racemes. 
A small genus, limited io tropical eastern Asia and Australia. 
v1. M. rugosus, Louwr. — Benth. in DC. Prod. X, 375. — A low glabrous 
or slightly hairy annual, rarely continued through another year by means 
of creeping runners. Leaves mostly radical, or nearly so, obovate or 
cuneate- dpewage 1—2’ long, coarsely toothed 
duncles. Calyx about ith foliaceous ovate or lanceolate lobes, 
enlarged after flowering. Socata scarcely twice as long. Capsule shorter 
than the calyx. — Sweet, Br. Fl. Gard. tab. 36. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 247. 
Along water-courses near Honolulu. A common weed of eastern Asia, of late years 
ebhcrtalty introduced from China. 
oparia dulcis, L., is said in Seeman’s Fl. Vit. to have been found by Preagins in 1824 
— probably near Hilo or Wouciahs —, but no picked collector has since s 
Orper LXIT. GESNERIACEAE. 
Flowers usually irregular. Calyx with 5 teeth, lobes or distinct sepals. 
Corolla tubular, the limb hilabinte « or of 5 spreading lobes imbricate- in 
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or more or less inferior, 1-celled, with 2 parietal entire or lobed placentas 
protruding into the cayity but not united in the axis. Ovules numerous. 
one simple, with an entire or lobed stigma, Fruit a berry or capsule. 
eds small, numerous, with or without albumen. Embryo straight. — 
Herbs or shrubs or climbers. Leaves opposite or whorled 
A considerable Order, chiefly tropical 
. CYRTANDRA, Forst. 
Calyx 5-toothed or oe Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, 
straight 
anterior, affixed to the middle of the tube or its throat, with short twisted 
filaments, enclosed; the short anthers cohering with their apices, 2- celled, 
extrorse. Ovary superior, surrounded by a cup-shaped disk, the style 
enclosed in all our species, the stigma obtuse emarginate or 2- lobed. 
sien or oblo rit Hobe nerad 2-lobed, with lobes revolute. Seeds 
humerous and small, ut albumen, othes pitted. — Shrubs or herbs 
with opposite or cn aed Flowers axillary, bracteate, solitary OF 
