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3. C. grandis, n.sp. 



A large shrub several feet tall base of stem woody 

 half an inch through, glabrous. Leaves opposite equal 

 herbaceous lanceolate acumiuate glabrous narrowed 

 acuminate at the base, margiDS dentate, 12 inches long 

 4 inches wide, nerves elevated 10 pairs, petiole 1-1^ inch 

 long. Cymes large lax borne on the base of the stem, 

 and on the upper part below the leaves, many flowered 

 2i to 6 inches long pubescent. Pedicels £ inch long. 

 Calyx tubular pubescent with linear lobes, red half an 

 inch long. Corolla white 1 inch long tube straight 

 thick lobes rounded. Fruit globose -J- inch long enclosed 

 in the enlarged calyx and seed minute black oblong 

 ribbed and reticulate. 



Selangor, Kuala Lumpur (Curtis) (Ridley 10498); 

 15th mile Pahang Track (Ridley 8552), Bukit Hitam 

 (7576); Perak, Ulu Bubong (King's Coll. 10150), Gun- 

 ong Batu Putih (King's Coll. 8155). 



Endemic. Common on banks in forests but local, A 

 very fine species. 



18. Cyrtandra. 



Half shrubby plants, terrestrial or rarely epiphytic, 3tems 

 often branched usually tall. Leaves opposite subequal or one 

 smaller. Bracts large or small free or connate. Bracteoles 

 ovate or narrowed or absent. Cymes axillary on long or short 

 peduncles, many flowered. Calyx tubular 2 to G lobed usually 

 5 lobed, lobes lanceolate. Corolla tube short, usually pubescent 

 infundibular straight, lobes 5 subequal or more or less distinctly 

 2 lipped, usually white spotted or marked* with yellow brown, 

 or red. Stamens 2 perfect shortly exsert or included affixed 

 to the corolla, anthers bilocular connivent free or coherent. 

 Staminodes small 2-3. Disc annular or unilateral. Ovary 

 Ovoid or oblong. Style long filiform. Stigma sub-bilobed. 

 Berry sausage-shaped or ovoid, firmly fleshy, usually beaked 

 with the persistent style. Seeds numerous miDute ellipsoid 

 smooth or obscurely reticulate. 



R. A Soc, No. 43, 1905. 



