1132 
XC. GESNERIACEjE. 
[Baa. 
and not above 1 line long, upper lip of 2 orbicular lobes 2 or more lines diameter, 
lobes of the lower lip smaller. Filaments thickly clavate, longer than the 
anthers ; anther-cells quite divaricate, forming a single narrow-oblong cell. 
Stigma of 2 short broad lobes. Capsule from f to above lin. long. 
Hab.: Common on wet rocks in tropical localities. 
At first sight closely resembles the N. Chinese B. hygrometrica, Br. (Dorcoeeras, Bunge), 
which has the same foliage, but the scape in the Chinese plant is less divided, the corolla-tube 
much larger (that figured in Deless. Ic. v. t. 95, is an imperfectly developed bud), and the 
anthers reniform on short filaments. — Benth, 
3. CYRTANDRA, Forst. 
(From kyrtos, a curve, and andros, a male.) 
Calyx free, tubular, ovoid-campanulate or roundly expanded, 5-fid or 5-partite. 
Corolla-tube cylindrical or funnel-shaped, 2-lipped, deciduous or persistent ; 
teeth 5. Stamens, 2 perfect, 2 or 3 rudimentary, included or shortly exserted ; 
filaments arcuate, anthers connivent or coherent, cells parallel or divergent. 
Disk annular or cupulate. Ovary superior, ovoid or oblong ; style long or short ; 
stigma dilated, concave, or more or less distinctly 2-lipped. Fruit fleshy, 
indehiscent, globose, ovoid-oblong or linear. Seeds very numerous, minute, 
usually dotted. Small or large shrubs or trees, villous or glabrous. Leaves 
opposite equal or unequal, or one of each pair rudimentary or wanting. Flowers 
usually white or yellow, in axillary fascicles, capitate or cymose. Bracts small 
or the exterior ones large, distinct, or connate in an involucre. 
Species numerous ; Polynesian, Malayan, Ac. 
1. C. Baileyi (after F. M. Bailey), F. r. M., 3rd Suppl. Syn. Ql. FI. 51. 
A soft-wooded shrub of about bft. in height. Branchlets when young somewhat 
beset with brown interwoven hairlets. Leaves alternate, rather large, attaining 
8in. in length, the opposite rudiments about Jin. long, short stalked, thinly 
chartaceous, from ovate to elongate-lanceolote at the base almost cuneate but 
inequilateral, on both sides dull-green though pale beneath, nearly glabrous, 
narrow or short-acuminated, towards the upper end undular-denticulated, their 
primary lateral veinlets slightly prominent, tbe ultimate venules concealed, the 
opposite rudiment bract or stipule-like, about as long as the leafstalk or shorter, 
semilanceolate-linear, pointed, Flowers nearly white, singly, opposite to a leaf, 
glabrous. Pedicels thin, scarcely as long as the calyx or at times longer, say 
about Jin. long, Calyx lobes about half the length of the tube, the lower deltoid, 
the upper much united and minutely apiculate. Corolla rather more than 
double as long as the calyx. Stamens : fertile inserted near the middle of the 
corolla; sterile placed somewhat lower down. Anthers (fertile) almost narrow- 
ellipsoid, disk short and blunt-lobed. Style glabrous, about half as long as the 
corolla. Stigma dilated, somewhat truncated ; ovulary narrow-pointed, glabrous. 
Fruit oblique-ellipsoid, about fin. long. Seeds very numerous, narrow-ellipsoid, 
almost smooth, dark-brown outside. 
Hab.: Bussell Biver, Bellemlen Ker Expert. Specimens with flower. Fruit specimens, IP. 
Bayer, at about 5,000ft. altitude, Rellenden Ker, according to Baron Mueller, to whom I 
am indebted for the above description ; but as Mr. Sayer was not on Bellenden 
Ker, but on a mountain called by the natives Cbickaboogalla, the altitude of which is about 
3,970ft., he probably gathered his specimens near the locality where I got my flowering 
shoots. The shrub was not abundant and I only secured three or four specimens. 
Systematically this species could best be placed near C. trisepala, as that congener has also 
alternate leaves; but the flowers of that plant are usually placed in twos and threes, leaf- 
opposed ; the calyxes are split and the style is not glabrous. — F. v. M. l.c. 
