6 THE GESNERACF^E OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



pyxis- like capsule, opening by a cap. The species are 

 very closely allied and perhaps might all be classed as 

 one somewhat variable one, except a single African 

 species. The others extend over all the islands and into 

 India, and our single species occurs wherever there are 

 limestone rocks. 



Motwphyllaea is also a limestone rock genus remarkable for 

 possessing a single often very large leaf, and a scorpioid 

 cyme or panicle of very small white flowers. There 

 are 9 species known ranging from Southern Siam to 

 Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Two species occur in the 

 Peninsula, one also in Java and Sumatra, and the other 

 endemic. 



Stauranthera is a small genus of 3 species of soft herbs with blue 

 or violet flowers. Two species occur in the Peninsula and 

 also in Burma and Assam, the third species in the genus 

 is Javanese. 



Rhynchotechum is a genus of 9 species of which 6 are Indian and 

 Burmese, two occur in Java one of which is not rare in 

 the hills of the Peninsula. It is a small shrub with 

 panicles of small cream white flowers. 



Cyrtandromeza are shrubby plants of rather coarse habit 

 occurring on banks in woods. They have white flowers 

 protruding from a red calyx, rather showy. Nine species 

 are recorded from Tenasserim and the Nicobar islands 

 to Sumatra and Java. Three species occur in the Penin- 

 sula one of which is found also in Sumatra. 



Cyriandra is a large genus of 170 species occurring from the 

 Sandwich islands through the Malay islands into the 

 Peninsula as^far north as Penang. Abundant in the 

 Polynesian and Malay islands, they are scanty in the 

 Peninsula where we have only 7 kinds of which four are 

 endemic. The other three occur in Sumatra also. They 

 are shrubby plants with heads of yellow white or red 

 flowers from the axils of the lower leaves. The fruits 

 are sausage shaped corky berries, with minute seeds. 



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