Dilymocarpus.] cvi. crsNERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 355 
racemed in pairs, or (ex Beddome) nearly umbelled. Sepals } in. Corolla 1-8 in., 
tubular, curved, hairy without, blue, Ovary hairy; style as long as the ovary, 
glabrous, stigma oblique subpeltate. Capsule not seen. 
V. DIDISSANDRA, Clarke. 
Scapose perennials or suffrutescent. Stamens 4 fertile, didynamous. 
Otherwise as Didymocarpus.—Species 7, extending from India to Borneo. 
Sect. 1. Boeoides, Benth. Scapose. Nerves of leaf very strong 
beneath, radiating. 
1. D. lanuginosa, Clarke; stem hardly any, leaves elliptic or ovate, 
cymes and calyx glabrous or nearly so. Didymocarpus lanuginosa, Wali. 
Cat. 791, not of Mazimov.; DC. Prodr. ix. 268; Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. 
Beng. t. 67.—Didymocarpoid, Griff. Itin. Notes, 64, n. 987. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-8000 ft., from Simla (Edgeworth) to Bhotan 
( Griffith) not common; Sikkim, Lachen, J. D. H. Kuasa Mrs., alt. 5000 ft. ; 
Kollong Rock, Griffith, H. f. & T., &c. 
Stem hardly any, with the base of the petioles and peduncles fulvous-shaggy. 
Leaves crowded, 3 by 1} in., obtuse, base attenuated, crenate, above deciduously hir- 
sute, beneath when young fulvous-woolly ; petiole }-1 in., or from the attenuation of 
the leaf-base 0. Scapes 2-6 in., glabrate upwards; cymes young woolly, ultimately 
glabrate, compound; pedicels 3-} in. Sepals j, in., lanceolate. Corolla $ in., 
long, hairy, pale blue or purple. Anthers peltate, cohering in pairs. Ovary glabrous; 
style minutely pilose. Capsule 3 in., often curved. 
2. D. rufa, King in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1437; stem and leaves of D. lanu- 
ginosa, but cymes densely woolly with brown hair. 
EASTERN TIBET; Chumbi (E. of Sikkim), alt. 12,000 ft. (Herb. King). 
Possibly only a state of D. lanuginosa, but the scape is stouter, pedicels shorter, 
inflorescence densely woolly, the flowers smaller, calyx shorter and its lobes more 
obtuse, the only capsule seen not } in. long. 
Sect. 2. Cyrtandroides. Suffrutescent. JPeduncles short, axillary, 
clustered, 1-3-fld. Nerves of leaf pinnate. 
3. D. frutescens, Jack in Mal. Mise. i. ii. 1, and in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. xiv. 89; leaves oblanceolate fulvous-silky beneath, corolla 1i in. 
anthers small round. Wail. Cat. 780; DC. Prodr. ix. 265. Henckelia 
frutescens, Spreng. Syst., cure post. 13. 
PENANG; Wallich. MaraACCA; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3856), Maingay 
(Kew Distrib. n. 1222).—DrzsTgiB. Sumatra. . " . 
Branches densely fulvous-villous upwards, Leares opposite, 9 by 21 in., acumi- 
nate, minutely crenate, mature glabrate above ; petiole 2 in. Peduncles i in., silky; 
bracts 4 in., narrow, silky ; pedicels often 2, 1 in., soon glabrous. Sepals lin., nar- 
rowly lanceolate, silky. Corolla 1} in. long, funnel-shaped, white, villous, soon 
nearly glabrous. -Anthers small, round, cohering in pairs, when young of 2 divaricate 
ellipsoid cells, cells early confluent. Ovary glabrous; style minutely həiry. Capsule 
3} in. 
VI. CHIRITA, Mam. 
Herbs or low undershrubs. Leaves opposite, often unequal, sometimes 
whorled or alternate, elliptic or ovate, rarely lanceolate. Cymes axillary, 
many- or few-fld., or peduncles 1-fld.; bracts 2, shorter than Er flowers, 
deciduous. Calyz 5-fid or sub-5-partite, not very small (except ‘in C. amosa); 
