Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 45 



admissible into that family as defined by Mr. Brown in his 

 Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. I am therefore inclined to think that 

 Cyrtandra^ DidymocarpuSi and another genus, which I shall 

 here present under the name of Loxonia^ which agree re- 

 markably in general habit as well as in carpological structure, 

 may properly form a small and distinct family near to Big- 

 noniacece. The two first genera are numerous in the Malay 

 islands ; and I may remark that, as far as my present obser- 

 vations extend, the Cyrtandrm appear to prevail principally 

 to the south of the Equator, and the Didymocarpi on the 

 north, where it has even been found, according to the ob- 

 servations of Dr. Wallich, to extend to the alpine regions of 

 Nepal. I shall proceed to give the characters by which 

 this family and its genera are distinguished, and shall add 

 descriptions of all the species that I have as yet had an op- 

 portunity of examining. 



CYRTANDRACE^. 

 Calyx monophyllus, divisus. 



Corolla monopetala, hypogyna, saepius irregularis, 5-loba. 



Stamina. Filamenta 4, duo plerumque, nunc quatuor 

 antherifera. Antherce biloculares, per paria connexae. 



Ovarium disco glanduloso cinctum, biloculare vel pseudo- 

 4-loculare, polysporum. Stylus simplex. Stigma bilamellosum 

 V. bilobum. 



Capsula V. Bacca bilocularis, bivalvis, polysperma. Dis- 

 sepimenta contraria, biloba, lobis revolutis seminiferis, locu- 

 los bipartientibus (inde pseudo-4-locularis). Semina nuda. 



Herbas vel sufFrutices. Folia simplicia, plerumque oppo- 

 sita, altero saepe abortive aut nano, exstipulata. Inflores- 

 centia axillaris. 



In this family the flowers nearly resemble those of the 

 Bignoniace<B, but have most frequently only two fertile sta- 

 mina, and rarely exhibit any trace of a fifth. In fruit they 

 are abundantly distinct ; and the herbaceous stems, simple 



