Tas. 8310. 
DIPELTA Froripunba. 
China. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. ‘Tribe LONICEREAK. 
Dirzita, Maxim. Bull. Acad. Pétersb. vol. xxiv. (1878) p. 50, quoad plantam 
Jloriferam tantum; Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. 1908, vol. xliv. p. 101. 
Dipelta floribunda, Maxim. Bull. Acad. Pétersb. vol. xxiv. p. 51, et in MA. Biol. 
vol. x. p. 80; Spooner in Gard. Chron. 1907, vol. xlii. p. 2 cum figura; 
species typica, a D. ventricosa, Hemsl., imprimis bracteolis peltatis, corolla 
infra medium in tubum angustum constricta et corollae lobis longioribus 
distinguenda. 
Frutex saepius 3-5 m, altus, habitu vultoque Diervillae specierum nonullarum, 
ramis elongatis graciliusculis primum puberulis, internodiis quam folia 
saepius brevioribus. olia opposita, exstipulata, breviter petiolata, tenuia, 
decidua, lanceolata, ovato-lanceolata, vel ovata, saepius 5-10 cm. longa, 
acuminata, acuta, basi subcuneata vel rotundata, integra, primum pube- 
rula, demum glabrescentia, subtus pallidiora; venae primariae laterales 
. utrinque circiter 4, primum pilosulae ultimis reticulatis pellucidis; petioli 
3-6 mm. longi. lores ad foliorum axillas fasciculati; pedunculi breves, 
4 saepius 2-foliati et 3-6-flori; pedicelli graciles, 1-1°5 em. longi, puberuli. 
Bracteae lineares, puberulae, 7-10 mm. longae, cito deciduae. Practeolae 6, 
valde difformes, nempe 2 minimae infra pedicelli medium positae, oppo- 
sitae, cito deciduae; 4 persistentes, per anthesin accrescentes, demum 
scariosae, venosae, juxta ovarii basin enatae, confertae; 2 exteriores vel 
inferiores minores, inaequales, 1 antica, 1 postica; antica major, ovata, 
obtusa, basi lata, pedicellum amplexans, plene evoluta circiter 1-5 cm, 
longa; postica similis nisi minor, circiter 0°5 cm. longa; 2 interiores vel 
superiores majores, rotundato-oblongae, leviter obliquae, auriculaeformes, 
peltatae, 2-2°5 cm. diametro maximo, capsulam omnino occultantes. 
Calycis limbus ad basin 5-partitus; lobi subaequales, lineares, circiter 
5 mm. longi, glandulosi, acutissimi, persistentes. Corolla albo-rosea, 
inflato-tubulosa, bilabiata, circiter 8 cm. longa; tubus infra medium con- 
strictus, cylindricus; limbi lobi subaequales, rotundato-oblongi, patentes, 
circiter 1 cm. longi, labio inferiore intus striis aurantiacis ornato. 
Stamina 4, didynama, inclusa. Ovarium inferum, hirsutum, 4-loculare ; 
loculi 2 fertiles, 1-ovulati; 2 steriles ovula plura imperfecta includentes ; 
stylus filiformis, glaber, leviter exserta. /ructus (immaturus tantum visus) 
angulatus, lobis calycinis coronatus, circiter 1°5 cm. longus, intra bracteolas 
accrescentes occultatus.—W. Bortinc Hemstry. 
The genus Dipelta has, owing to the absence of complete 
material, never hitherto been fully described. The late Mr. 
Maximowicz, by whom it was founded on specimens of the 
species here illustrated, could only report of the fruit, which 
Aprin, 1910. 
