352 CVI. GESNERACEX. (C. B. Clarke) — [Didymocarpus. 
27. D. platypus, Clarke; leaves alternate crowded sessile oblanceo- 
late sparsely villous base dilated incise-serrate, corolla 1} in. narrowly 
funnel-shaped, capsule 2 in. slender linear.—Chirita sp. n. 29, Herb. Ind. 
Or. H.f. & T. 
Maracca ; Griffith, Cuming (n. 2359), &e.; Mt. Ophir (Herb. Wight).—DI1sTRIB. 
Sumatra. 
Leaves 9 by 2} in., sprinkled above distantly with long hairs; nerves 30 pair, 
reticulated and villous beneath. Inflorescence, flowers, and capsules as of D. crinita, 
of which I suspect that this is a variety. 
** Stem creeping; leaves in opposite distant pairs. 
28. D. reptans, Jack in Mal. Misc.i. part ii. p. 8,and in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. 14, p. 35; creeping, leaves ovate or elliptic minutely crenate hirsute 
above with long hairs, peduncles 1-fld., corolla } in. nearly glabrous. Wall. 
Cat. 787; DC. Prodr. ix. 266. Henckelia reptans, Spreng. Syst., cure post. 
p. 14. 
PENANG; Wallich, Maingay, Lobb. MovrMwEIN; Lobb. 
Stem attaining a foot, branching, villous. Leaves opposite, 2 by 1 in., narrowed 
at both ends, scarcely acute ; nerves 6 pair, villous beneath; petiole 4 in. Peduncles 
13 in., slender, thinly hairy; bracts small, linear. Sepals j, in., linear, pubescent. 
Ovary and style shortly pubescent. Disc short, cylindric. Capsule 3 in., follicular, 
sometimes ultimately 2-valved. 
29. D. marginata, Clarke; creeping, leaves broafl elliptic sprinkled 
with small hairs above ciliate-villous on the margin, peduncles 1-fld., corolla 
3 in. villous. 
Maracoa; Lobb. 
Stem villous, rooting at the nodes. Leaves 2} by 14 in., obtuse at both ends, 
subentire ; petiole 1 in. Sepals à in., linear.— Very near D. reptans ; the sepals are 
twice as long, the corolla hairy, the indumentum of the leaves different. 
Sect. 5. Loxocarpus. Stemless, or one doubtful species creeping. 
Leaves crowded, nearly entire. Peduncles longish, few- or many-fld. ; bracts 
small, narrow. Calyx divided nearly to the base. Corolla-tube short, limb 
2-lipped, wide. Dise 0. Ovary sessile, pubescent; style as long as the ovary. 
Capsule lanceolate or linear, usually oblique at the base, follicular.—Malayan 
species. (Loxocarrus, Br. in Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. pp. 115, 120.) 
30. D. incana, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 1022; leaves round often subcor- 
date densely white-silky on both surfaces, cyme many-fld., capsule 1-3 in. 
lanceolate base oblique. Loxonia ? alata, Wall. Cat. 809. Loxocarpus alata, 
Br. in Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. 120; DC. Prodr. ix. 277. 
PENANG; Wallich, Maingay. SINGAPORE; Lobb. 
Scapose. . Leaves 1-3 in. diam., obtuse, entire or shallow-crenulate ; petiole 1-2 in. 
Peduneles 3 in., white-villous ; bracts 4 in., linear; cyme very compound, white silky- 
villous. Sepals | in., linear. Corolla scarcely } in., wide-campanulate, blue. Ovary 
villous ; style glabrous. Capsule acute, white-villous. 
31. D. semitorta, Clarke; leaves elliptic or ovate silky above reti- 
culated beneath with broad densely villous nerves, peduncles 1—2-fld., sepals 
white-pilose, capsule 3 in. doubly curved half twisted round near the base. 
Maracca; Mt. Ophir, Griffith, Lobb, Maingay. 
Scapose. Leaves 14 by $ in., obtuse at both ends, entire or obscurely crenate, 
densely softly silky above, glabrous between the nerves beneath ; petiole up to 14 in. 
