Cyrtandra
(from kyrtos, curved, and aner, andros, a male; alluding to the curved filaments of the perfect stamens). ORD. Gesneraceae. A genus embracing about sixty species of stove trees, shrubs, or sub-shrubs, natives of the Malayan Archipelago and the Pacific Islands. Flowers often whitish or yellowish, fascicled, capitate, or cymose in the axils; calyx free, five-cleft or somewhat five-parted; corolla sub-bilabiate; perfect stamens two; staminodes two or three, small; bracts small, or the outer ones ample. Leaves opposite, one often smaller, or by abortion nearly alternate. For culture of the two species introduced, see Agalmyla, on p. 35, Vol. I. C. pendula (pendulous). fl. sessile; calyx brownish, ten to eleven lines long; corolla white, dotted purple on the lower side of the inflated part, 1 1/2in. long, sub-equally five-lobed; peduncle about 6in. long, bent down. l. opposite, on long petioles, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acute at apex, acute or sub-cordate at base, blotched grey above. Stem short and stout. Java, 1883.
C. Pritchardii (Pritchard's). fl. white, small, disposed in pedunculate, axillary, three-flowered cymes. fr. white, ovoid. l. petiolate, elliptic, obtusely toothed, acute at both ends, 5in. to 6in. long, 2in. to 2 1/2in. broad. Fiji, 1887.