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Tas. 5161, 
DIDYMOCARPUS prRIMULAFOLIA. 
Primrose-leaved Didymocarpus. 
Nat. Ord. CyRTANDRACEH.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4757.) 
Dipymocarpus primulefolia ; acaulis, folis radicalibus patentibus ovalibus 
obovatisve obtusis serratis in petiolum longum alatum decurrentibus 
rugosis supra pubescentibus subtus tomentoso-albidis, scapis axillaribus 
folia sequantibus apice dichotome cymoso-paucifloris, calycis villosi lobis 
lineari-oblongis erectis obtusis, corolle tubo curvato subtus precipue insig- 
niter inflato limbi lobis 5 patentibus eequalibus. 
DipyMocarPus primuleefolia. Gardn. Contrib. to Fl. of Ceylon, p. 18. 
Raised from seeds which were sent from Ceylon by our ex- 
cellent friend Mr. Thwaites, to the Royal Gardens of Kew, 
where it flowered in November, 1859. It was well named by 
the lamented Gardner, “ primulefolia,’ for not only the leaves, 
but the front view of the flower calls to mind some or other of 
the Primrose tribe. The colour of the leaves however, from the 
copious down, is peculiarly hoary, almost white. It is an inha- 
bitant of shady rocks, in forests, on the Hantane range, near 
Kandy. A near ally of this is D. Humboldtiana, of Gardner, 
figured at our Tab. 4757. That has much broader leaves and 
shorter petioles. 
Descr. Herbaceous, stemless. Whole plant covered with 
hoary down or short hairs, thicker (quite tomentose) on the 
under side of the leaves. eaves (the blade) three to four inches 
long, all radical, elliptical or subobovate, patent, rugose with 
strongly reticulated veins, crenato-serrate, tapering at the base — 
. into a long, winged petiole, longer than the blade. Scapes 
about as long as the leaves, erect or nearly so, dichotomously 
divided at the apex into a few-flowered cyme of moderately sized, 
pale-lilac-coloured flowers, soon passing into white. Calyx 
monophyllous, cut into five, deep, nearly erect, linear-oblong, 
JANUARY Ist, 1860. 
