THE GESNERACE.EOF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 85 



obtuse white. Stamens 4 very short, filaments short and 

 thick. Style longer than the ovary. Capsule ovoid- 

 globose hairy shorter than the sepals. 



Clarke, Prodr. p. 195; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2, 750. 

 Isanthera , parviflora, Ridl,, Trans. Linn. Soc, III, 331. 



Pahang, Kuala Tahan (Ridley 2171) ; Penang (Wallich 

 Pulau Betong and Penara Bukit) (Curtis 3035) ; Perak, 

 Larut Hills (Ridlev) (King's Coll. 2237) (Scortechini 

 1222). 



In woods, terrestrial. 



Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



17. Cyrtandromoea, Zoll. 



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 

 cupshaped. Capsule globose or oblong enclosed in the en- 

 larged calyx, opening irregularly. Walls membranous. Seed 

 numerous sinuate oblong obtuse ribbed reticulate.; 



Species ten Malayan. 



Flowers solitary axillary 1. C. acuminata 



Flowers cymose axillary. Leaves 



ovate 2. C. megaphylla 



Flowers cymose at the base of a woody 



stem. Leaves acuminate at base 3. C. grandis 



1, C. acuminata, Benth and Hook, fil., Gen. PI. 2, p. 1020. 



A shrubby plant 3 or 4 feet long, stem rather weak, 

 hollow, young parts pubescent. Leaves lanceolate or 

 ovate narrowed into the petiole acute, serrate, strigose 



R. A. Soc, No. 43, 1905. 



