48 Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



Stem herbaceous, sub-erect. Leaves opposite, long-peti- 

 oled, one of the petioles generally abortive, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 cordate and rounded at the base, acute, edges revolute, 

 smooth and dark-green above, purple, villous, and very soft 

 beneath ; nine or ten inches long. Petioles about the same 

 length as the leaves. Peduncles axillary, reflexed, about two 

 inches long, bearing a head of from six to ten pedicellate 

 flowers, embraced by a short deciduous involucre. Calyx 

 tubular, quinquefid. Corolla white, large ; limb sub-irregu- 

 lar, five-lobed. Stamina two, with two abortive filaments. 

 Style one. Berry oblong, many-seeded ; lobes of the dis- 

 sepiments seminiferous. 



4. CYRTANDRA HIRSUTA. 



C. foliis elliptico-ovatis basi cordatis crenatis utrinque 

 pilosis, capitulis paucifloris hirsutis, involucro bipartito. 

 Sumatra. 



Herbaceous, ascending, pilose. Stem round. Leaves op- 

 posite, one of them generally abortive, and hence apparent- 

 ly alternate, long-petioled, round-oval, or elliptic-ovate, 

 cordate at the base, rather obtuse, crenate, pilose, with 

 remote erect hairs ; about five inches long and three broad. 

 Petioles round, as long as the leaves, embracing the stem at 

 the joints, and uniting with the base of the opposite one, 

 which is generally an abortive leafless stalk of an inch in 

 length. Peduncles axillary, reflexed, villous, shorter than 

 the petioles, supporting a head of from two to five flowers, 

 invested by an involucre composed of two opposite ovate 

 leaflets united at the base. Calyx tubular, hirsute with 

 brown hairs, quinquefid. Corolla white, pilose without, 

 much longer than the calyx ; tube curved, expanding into a 

 large infundibular mouth ; limb five-parted, somewhat two- 

 lipped ; segments nearly equal. Stamina two fertile, shorter 

 than the corolla ; two abortive rudiments. Anthers connate. 

 Style about the length of the stamina. Stigma thick, de- 



