788 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Perak : Larut Hills, Bidley ; King's Collector 2237 ; Scortechini 1222. 

 Pahang: Kuala Tahan, Bidley 2171. — Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



19. Cyrtandromcea, ZoU. 



Shrubs with square stems, leafy above. Leaves opposite, subequal, 

 herbaceous, ovate elliptic or lanceolate, serrate, petioled. Flowers 1 to 

 many, in axillary or basal cymes ; bracts 2 in the middle of the pedicel. 

 Calyx tubular, shortly 5-toothed or lobed, enlarged in fruit, usually red. 

 Corolla large, white, tubular, thin, glabrous ; tube dilated at apex ; lobes 

 rounded, subequal. Stamens 4 perfect, in 2 pairs, subsimilar ; filaments 

 linear ; anthers ovoid, small. Pistil longer than stamens ; stigma 

 cup-shaped. Capsule globose or oblong, enclosed in the enlarged calyx, 

 opening irregularly; walls membranous. Seeds numerous, sinuate, 

 oblong, obtuse, ribbed, reticulate. — Distrib. Species 10, Malayan. 



Flowers solitary, axillary ; corolla nearly 1 in. long . . . . 1. C. acuminata. 



Flowers in lax many-flowered cymes : — 



Cymes slightly supra-axillary ; corolla about 2 in. long . . 2. G. megaphylla. 



Cymes borne on base of stem or on upper portion below the 



leaves ; corolla 1 in. long . . . . . . . . 3. C grandis. 



1. Cyrtandromcea acuminata, Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. PI. II. 

 1020 (1876). A shrubby plant, 3 to 4 ft. long ; stem rather weak, 

 hollow, young parts pubescent. Leaves lanceolate or ovate, narrowed 

 into the petiole, acute, serrate, strigose, pubescent above, also on 

 the nerves beneath ; 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide ; petiole 1 in. long. 

 Floivers solitary, axillary, on short -125 in. long, lanceolate, slender, 

 hispid peduncles with 2 very small linear bracts in the middle. Calyx 

 tubular, -5 in. long, glabrous, with short teeth, dull red. Corolla nearly 

 straight, 1 in. long ; tube thick ; lobes rounded, white. Capsule oblong, 

 4-angled, "25 in. long. Seeds minute, deeply reticulate. Clarke in DC. 

 Monog. Phan. V. i. 185, and in Hook. f. PL Br. Ind. IV. 370 ; Eidley in 

 Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 86. Cyrtandra? acuminata, Wall. 

 Cat. 1808. Busea suhsessilis, Miq. El. Ind. Bat. II. 733. 



Tringganu : Bundi, Bostado ; Penang : Porter in Wallich's Collector, 

 808; Maingay (K.D.) 1232-2; King; Tonoh, Machado. Perak: 

 Larut Hills, i?t^% 2917; Scortechini 83, 329; King's Collector 5342, 

 2139. Selangor : Ginting Bidai, Bidley. Negri Sbmbilan : Bukit 

 Sulu, Cantley. 



2. Cyrtandromcea megaphylla, Hemsley in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1555 

 (1884). Herb about 3 ft. tall ; stem bluntly 4-angled, pithy in the 

 centre, pubescent. Leaves opposite, subequal, herbaceous, ovate, 



