Didymocarpus.] cvi. GESNERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 347 
Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 56. D. verticillata, Wall. Cat. 783. 
Henckelia oblonga, Spreng. Syst. cure post. 13. 
I eran ; Wallich. Sixx1m; Lachen, alt. 7-11,000 ft., and Sinchul, alt. 8500 ft., 
Stem 2-5 in., villous-pubescent, at flower-time with 4 subverticillate leaves at its 
apex otherwise leafless; or elongate with 3 or 4 remote nodes, opposite leaves, and 
both axillary and terminal peduncles. Leaves opposite, 4 by 13 in., subobtuse, closely 
villous above, glabrous beneath with villous nerves ; petiole 1-23 in., patently villous. 
Peduncles 2 in., glandular-pilose, glabrate upwards; bracts d in. broad, connate, 
glabrous, coloured, subpersistent. Calyx i in. campanulate. Corolla lin., dark 
purple.— Recognized by its small capsule. 
8. D. villosa, Don Prodr. 193; stem 4-leaved at the apex very 
villous, leaves ovate or obovate obtuse crenate closely silky-villous above, 
cymes glabrous, calyx divided less than half-way down lobes obtuse, capsule 
nearly $ in. sessile. DC. Prodr. ix. 266, not of Clarke. Henckelia villosa, 
Spreng. Syst. cure post. 18. 
NEPAL; Wallich. 
Stem 2-6 in., densely covered with long spreading hairs, leafless except at _the 
apex. Leaves opposite, 2 by 14 in., beneath villous or nearly glabrous on the lamina ; 
petiole 0-1 in., patently villous. Peduncles 1-3 in.; bracts d in, ovate, connate, 
coloured, glabrous; pedicels } in. Calyx 4 in., campanulate, glabrous. Corolla Y in. 
or rather more (apparently black-purple).—Seems very near D. aromatica, Wall, 
Which has not the densely woolly stem. 
9. D. aromatica, Wall. Cat. 785 chiefly, Pl. As. Rar. ii. 44, t. 141, 
excl. fig. 4—7; stem 4-leaved at the apex, leaves ovate or elliptic crenate 
softly hairy above, lower bracts herbaceous more or less pubescent, cyme 
glabrous, calyx divided one-third way down lobes rounded, capsule $ m 
sessile. Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 59, excl. fruiting plant; not of ri 
Don ; DC. Prodr. ix. 267, partly. D. primulifolia, Don Prodr. 123, partly. 
Henckelia primulifolia, Spreng. Syst., cure post. 14, partly. 
NEPAL; Wallich. . . 
` Stem 4-6 in., pilose, leafless except at the apex. Leaves opposite, 4 by 24 in, 
densely softly strigose on both surfaces or glabrate between the nerves beman 1; po io e 
unequal, 1-2 in. Inflorescence shorter than the leaves ; peduncles (usual y 2) 1- in. 
lower bracts in., ovate, green, not connate, often denticulate, deciduous ; cymes 
upwards with the pedicels and calyces glabrous. Calyx j in., campanulate. : Coro “ 
$ in. purple, nearly glabrous. Capsele-stalk hardly T in.—Don confusec P: 
aromatica, Wall., with D. subalternans, Wall., and described his D. primulifolia 
from both; Brown therefore (in Benn. Pl Jav. Rar. p. 118) rejected the name 
D. primulifolia. 
10. D. podocarpa, Clarke; stem 4-leaved at the apex, leaves ovate 
or elliptic Renato minutely pilose above, bracts glabrous, calyx divided j 
way down lobes obtuse, capsule 1-1} in. pedicelled. 
J SUBALPINE SIKKIM ; Lachen, alt. 1012,00 ft., J. D. H.; Sinchul, alt. 8000 ft., 
. D. H.; Singalelah, alt. 8000 ft., T'reutler, &c. . . 
Stem 2-8 in., ashy-pubescent, leafless except at the summit. Leaves opposite, 
attaining 6 by 4 in., pubescent only on the nerves beneath; petiole 0-1 d ated 
Short. Peduncles 2-4, 1-2} in.; bracts} in, wide-rotund, coloured, su ra in! 
pedicels 1-2 in., glabrous. Calyx nearly } in., campanulate. Coro near S times 
purple, glabrous or sparsely pilose without. Cupswle-stalk longer pc M cles 
nearly twice as long as, the calyx.—Differs from the 3 preceding closely a pec 
by the larger flowers and larger long-pedicelled capsule. 
ll. D. subalternans, Wall. Cat. 782; leaves scattered and opposite 
