480 CYRTANDRACE^. ACANTHACE^K. 



ORDER CCIII.— CYRTANDRACE^, Jack.— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 283. 



Terrestrial or parasitical plants, usually herbaceous and stemless, oc- 

 casionally caulescent, and sometimes shrubby, referred by R. Br. (Horsf. 

 pi. jav. rar. 2, jo. 114.) to 22 genera: of these 5 species belong to S. 

 Africa and Madagascar ; {Streptocarpus, Lindl.); 1 to Magellan; 1 to N. 

 China, {Boea, Commers.) ; 1 to Mexico ; {Glossanthus, Klein.) ; 1 to 

 New Zealand; {Rhabdothamnus, Cunningh.) ; 1 to N. S. Wales ; (Fieldia, 

 Cunningh.). The E. Indian species, amount to about 75 species, referred 

 to the following genera; viz. Mschynanthus, (12), Tromsdorffia, (1 ?). 

 Agalmyla, (1), Lysionotus, (1), Chirita, (10), Didymocarpus , (22), Loxo- 

 carpus, (1. Loxonia ? incana, Wall. Cat.), Epithema, Siaur anther a, (2), 

 Monophyllaa, (1), Platystemma, (1), Rhynchothecum, (Corysanthera, Wall. 

 Cat.), Centronia, (1), Cyrtandra, (13), Whitia. "Properties unknown." 

 {Lindl.) 

 j^scHYNANTHUs, Jack. {G. Don's Mill. diet. A, p. 656.) 



\. parasiticus, Wall. {Cat. — M. grandiflorus, G. Don. I. c. ;-^B. M. 67, 



t. 3843; — J. GraJi. Cat. B. pl. p. 146. — Trichosporum grandifiorum. 



D. Don. pr. Jl. nep. p. 125. — Incarvillea parasitica, Roxb. Carom. 2, 



t. 291 ;— fl". B. p. 47 ; / ind. 3, p. 112.) % Paras. The Concans. 



Khassya Mountains, &c. Fl. large, orange- scarlet, R. S. ; fr. Sept. 



and Oct. 

 Platystemma, Wall. {G. Dons Mill. diet. 4, p. 664.) 



1. violdides, Wall. {pl. as. rar. 2, t. 151 ; — Royle. ill. t. 71, /. 1 ; — G. 



Don. I. c.) © Rocks of Upper Nepal. Fl. largish, violet-blue, in the 



centre minutely green-rayed, underneath whitish, C. S. 

 Loxonia ? 



1. alata. Wall. S North East of Bengal. 



* Tromsdorffia speciosa, Blum. 5 Banks of rivers in Java. — jtEschynan- 

 thus oblongifolius, G. Don. (Incarvillea oblongifolia, Roxb.) B Chitta- 

 gong. — JEi. ramosissimus. Wall. (pl. as. rar. I, t. 71.) B Paras. Nepal. 



— Didymocarpus crinitus, Jack. %. Penang D. reptans. Jack. ^. 



Penang. — Loxotis obliqua, Benth. Khassya Mountains. — L. inter- 

 midea, Benth. Moulmein. — Stauranthera grandifolia, Benth. Penang. 

 — Epithema Brunonis, Decaisne. (Aikinia Brunonis, Wall. pl. as. rar. 

 3, t. 228.) Timor. 



ORDER CCIV.— ACANTHACE^, R. Br.— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 284. 



THE JUSTICIA TRIBE. 



Herbs or shrubs, by Nees von Esenbeck and Lindl. Nat. syst. p. 285, 

 referred to 78 genera. Of these, Spreng. syst. and Lindl. 1. c. addenda, enu- 

 merate about 140 species from 8, America, Mexico and Brazil; 24 from 



