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four-parted involucre^ and by several large bracts within it. 

 Flowers white, numerous, nearly sessile, aggregated into a 

 round head. Calyx tubular, somewhat woolly, divided at 

 the mouth into five linear segments, generally more deeply 

 cloven on one side. Corolla infundibuliform much longer 

 than the calyx, expanding at the mouth; limb divided into 

 five rather unequal lobes. Stamina two, shorter than the 

 corolla, and inserted on its tube, joined by their anthers ; 

 the rudiments of two abortive stamina. Anthers of two pa- 

 rallel lobes, which are woolly at their base. Ovary embrac- 

 ed at the base by a nectarial ring, long, two-celled ; cells 

 bipartite by the revolute lobes of the dissepiments. Style 

 as long as the stamina. Stigma infundibuliform. Berry 

 oblong, somewhat curved^ cylindrical, acuminate, two-celled, 

 many-seeded ; seeds arranged round the revolute lobes of 

 the septa, small, roundish. 



2. CYRTANDRA MACULATA. 

 C. foliis subrotundo-cordatis acutis serratis supra glabris, 

 corollas lobis tribus inferioribus macula purpurea. 

 Sumatra. 



A low herbaceous plant. Leaves opposite, one abortive, 

 the other petiolate, round-cordate, acute, serrated, smooth 

 above, somewhat villous beneath ; about four inches long, 

 by four and a half broad. Flowers capitate, involucred, 

 axillary. Calyx tubular, five-toothed. Corolla much longer 

 than the calyx, white, with a large purple spot on each of 

 the three lower lobes ; limh five-lobed, sub-irregular. Sta- 

 mina two fertile, two sterile. Style one. Berry oblong, 

 many-seeded, seeds disposed round the lobes of the dissepi- 

 ment. 



3. CYRTANDRA BICOLOR. 

 C. foliis elliptico-lanceolatis basi cordatis supra glabris 

 subtus villosis purpureis, pedunculis petiolo brevioribus. 

 Sumatra. 



