CYRTANDRA . CYRTANDREÆ (AUCT. C. B. CLARKE). 201 
5 mm.; lobi 4 mm. Filamenta glabra, inferne paullo dilatata; stami- 
modium quintum adest. Capsula 8-10 mm. 
Australia; New South Wales, Blue Mountains (A. Cunningham, 
n. 133 in h. Kew); Shoalhaven (Backhouse, in h. Kew); Victoria, 
Gipps Land (F. Mueller, in hh. Kew, Wien). 
XLII. CYRTANDRA, J. R. et G. Forst. Char. Gen. (1776), p. 5; 
Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc., 14 (1825), p. 24; Blume Bijd. (1826), 
p. 167; Gaud. in Freyc. Voy., p. 446; DC. Prod., 9, p. 280; De 
Vriese Pl. Ind. Bat. Reinw., p. 11; Mig. Fl. Ind. pak 2, p. 738; 
A. Gray in Proc. Amer. TS Nov. 1861, p. 350, Oct. 1862 B. 815 
H. Mann in Proc. Amer. Acad. Sept. 1866, p. 189; Wawra in 
Flora, 1872, p. 557 et p. 562.— Whitia, Blume Cat. Gewass. Bui- 
tenz., 1823, p. 16. — Rhyncocarpus, Reinw. in Mus. Lugd. ms. 
Tab. nostræ XXIII-XXXII. 
Calyx liber, majusculus vel parvus, deciduus (fissus vel a basi cir- 
Cumscisse ruptus) aut persistens, sæpe fructûs tempore paullo amplia- 
tus; tubus brevis aut longus; lobi 5 (rarius 3-4 vel 6) lanceolati 
æstivatione subspathacei, aut lineares æstivatione aperti. Corolla 
mediocris aut magna, raro parva, alba luteo striata aut coccineo- 
aurantiaca vel purpureo maculata; tubus anguste infundibuliformis, 
fere rectus (rarius curvatus), extüs glaber aut sericeo-hirsutus; lim- 
bus 5-lobus, æqualis aut bilabiatus, ore recto vel admodum obliquo, 
segmentis patentibus vel reflexis. Stamina perfecta 2, corollie adfixa, 
inclusa rarius breviter exserta; antheræ 2-loculares, conniventes, 
liberæ ve] coherentes; loculi late oblongi, subparalleli, longitudinali- 
ter dehiscentes; rime apice sæpius discrete, in C. Sandei, C. pictá 
(aliisque) jam ante anthesin in unam confluentes ; staminodia 2 aut 3, 
parva. Discus annularis, aut unil lis oblongus aut auri 
Ovarium superum, ovoideum aut oblongum, glabrum aut villosum ; 
Stylus longus vel brevis; stigma sub-bilobatum ; placentæ usque ad 
axin ovarii inflexæ, dein revolute, undique (nisi axin versus) ovuli- 
feræ. Bacca carnosa, coriacea, parum succosa, indehiscens, ovoidea 
oblonga aut linearis, sspe a stylobasi persistente rostrata. Semina 
numerosa, minuta, ellipsoidea, levia; testa obscurius reticulata. 
Fratices aut suffrutices, rarius arbusculæ. Folia om der 
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