Tas. 6791. 
DICHOTRICHUM tervateom. 
Native of the Moluccas. 
Nat. Ord, GzsnERACEXZ.—Tribe CyRTANDREZ. 
Genus Dicnorricnum, Reinw. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1014.) 
Dicnotricnum fternateum; suffrutex ramis radicantibus scandens, molliter 
pubescens, foliis oppositis paribus quam maxime inzqualibus, majoribus 
petiolatis oblique ovato-rotundatis subacutis irregulariter serrato-dentatis basi 
cordatis, minoribus parvulis auriculzformibus, pedunculo longissimo pendulo, 
floribus dense umbellatim corymbosis nutantibus assurgentibus coccineis, calyce 
subcampanulato 5-dentato, corolle tubo curvo calyce triplo longiore, limbi lobis 
5 oblongis obtusis tubo multo brevioribus, antheris exsertis, stigmatis lobis 
magnis rotundatis, capsulis longissimis. : 
D. ternateum, Reinwdt. MSS. in De Vriese Tuinbouw-Flora, vol. iii. p. 351, ewm 
ic.; Morren, Belgique Horticole, vol, xxi. p. 353, t. 22. 
TromsporFri4? elongata, Blume Bijdr. p. 763; Brown in Horsf. Pl. Jav. Rar, 
p. 116. 
Dichotrichum is a close ally of the beautiful genus 
Aischynanthus, differing from it very slightly in floral cha- 
racters (the stigma and form of the bristles of the seed); 
but notably in habit, in which latter respect it is very near 
to the Javan monotypic genus Agalmyla (Plate 5747); which 
again differs in having only two perfect stamens, and a 
more regular corolla with included filaments. It is a plant 
of curious habit, climbing trunks of trees and moist rocks 
by the rootlets, which, as in the Ivy, are developed in great 
abundance all along those sides of the stem and branches 
which are adjacent to its supports. From these branches 
the long flowering peduncle depends, bearing a candelabra- 
like corymb of ascending flowers. The position of the 
peduncle and flowers is the opposite of that represented 
in both De Vriese’s figure and in the “Belgique Horticole.” 
This fine plant is a native of the voleanic island of Ter- 
nate, one of the Moluccas, whence we have herbarium 
specimens collected by Mr. Moseley, one of the Naturalists 
of the ‘‘ Challenger’? Expedition. It was introduced by 
Jacob Makoy and Co., of Liége, from whom we received a 
DECEMBER Ist, 1884. 
