Loxostigma.] CVI. GESNERACEX. (C. D. Clarke.) 345 
vent in pairs, connective not appendaged. Style subpersistent, Capsule 23-5 in.— 
Wight's example of this was from Griffith in early flower; in his picture cited he 
guessed the colour of the flower wrong, and added a figure of a seed of some species 
(probably) of Didymocarpus ; the figure thus concocted has defied identification until 
Griffith's specimen in Wight’s Herbarium was found. 
IV. DIDYMOCARPUS, Wail. 
Stemless or erect herbs. Leaves opposite, alternate, 3—4-nate or crowded. 
Peduncles axillary, many- or few-fld.; bracts rarely conspicuous; pedicels 
cymose, subumbelled or subracemed in pairs. Calyx small, 5-fid or nearly 
-partite. Corolla-tube cylindric or ovoid, mouth oblique or subsymmetric ; 
lobes 5, rounded. Stamens, 2 perfect, 2-3 rudimentary ; filaments glabrous, 
bent; anthers cohering in pairs; cells 2, ovate, early confluent. Dise 
cylindric or 0. Ovary stalked or sessile, narrow ; style long or short, stigma. 
peltate emarginate or unilateral oblong rarely 2-lobed; placent; deeply 
Inflexed, then recurved bearing ovules. Capsule linear, rarely lanceolate, 
loculicidally 2-valved or subfollicular, ultimately usually 2- often 4-valved ; 
valves not twisted before dehiscence; placenta on the valves, revolute, con- 
cealing the seeds. Seeds ellipsoid, small, smooth, minutely reticulate.— 
Distris. Species 70, in India, Malaya and S. China, 1 in Madagascar. 
Sect. l. Monophylloides. Plant very small, 1-leaved. 
l. D. pygmea, Clarke; leaf sessile elliptic base cordate, pedicels few 
short fascicled in its axil. 
CENTRAL INDIA; Rewah, Vicary. Chota Nagpore; Lohardugga, Clarke. 
Pubescent. Stem 4-2 in., slender, curved, bearing one leaf at its apex. Leaf (one 
cotyledon persistent ?) 1 by Zin. or much smaller, falcate, obtuse at both ends, sinuate 
scarcely crenate, thin; petiole O rarely J; in. Pedicels 4 in. ; bracts inconspicuous or 
0. Sepals yy in., linear, somewhat enlarged in fruit. Corolla 4 in., tubular. Stamens 
2 fertile, 2 linear rudiments, glabrous; anther-cells 2, ovate, oblique, scarcely con- 
fluent by their tips. Ovary and style villous ; stigma small, subcapitate, scarcely 
2-lobed. Capsule 4-%in., nearly straight; 2-valved, and seeds altogether as in 
Didymocarpus. 
Sect. 2. Eudidymocarpus (Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 1022). Cymes 
many-fld., subeorymbose. Calyx 5-lobed, or in D. Morton? nearly 5-partite. 
Corolla-tube cylindric.— Species confined to N. and N.E. India. 
2. D. pedicellata, Br. in Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. 118; stem hardly 
any, leaves roundly ovate glabrous glandular-punctate above, calyx divided 
one-third the way down lobes rounded, capsule 1-1} in. long-pedicelled. 
DC. Prodr. ix. 267; Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 64. D. macrophylla, 
Wall. Cat. 784, partly; Royle Til. 294, t. 70, tig. 1. 
SUBTROPICAL W. HIMALAYA; from Chumba to Kumaon, alt. 2500-5500 ft., 
frequent, Wallich, Royle, Falconer, &c. , . 
Stem usually 0, sometimes 14 in, with 2 or 3 pairs of opposite cauline leaves, 
glabrous; innovations scabrous-puberulous. Zeaves usually all radical, 8-6 in. diam., 
crenate-serrate, the points on their upper surface conspicuous black, in age colourless 
obscure without a lens; petiole 2-5 in. Scapes 4in.; flowers often very many; 
bracts } in., ovate, often shortly connate. Calyx iin. funnel-shaped. Corolla nearly 
lin. purple. Capsule-stalk }-+ in., filiform. 
3. D. macrophylla, Wall.; Don Prodr. 122; stemless, leaves ovate 
