Tas. 7526, 
DIDYMOCARPUS Matayana. 
Native of Penang ? 
Nat. Ord. GesnERACES.—Tribe CyrTANDRER. 
Genus Dipymocarrus, Wall.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1022.) 
Diprmocarpus (Heterobea) malayana; acaulis, coespitosa, foliis radicalibus 
breviter petiolutis ovatis obtusis basi rotundatis cordatisve utrinque 
sericeo-pilosis flavo-viridibus subtus-pallidis nervis utrinque costw 6-8 
arcuatis, scapis gracilibus laxe patentim pilosis apicem versus 2~-4-floris, 
floribus breviter pedicellatis nutantibus, bracteis parvis oblongis obtusis, 
calycis 5-partiti laciniis linearibus obtusis pubescentibus, corolle 1}- 
pollicaris extus pubescentis tubo subdecurvo in faucem longiorem in- 
_ fundibularem gibboso-inflatam producto, limbi subbilabiati lobis rotundatis 
 subeequalibus patulis aureis, staminibus inclusis filamentis curvis 
glaberrimis, antheris scutiformibus cohwrentibus, connectivo dorso 
2-corniculat, staminodiis 8 minutis papilleformibus, disco breviter 
cylindraceo, ovario angusto styloque toto elongato glanduloso-pubescen- 
tibus, stigmate capitato, capsula 14-pollicari anguste lineari fere recta, 
valvis ad basin liberis. ; 
D. malayana, Hook. f. in Gard. Chron. (1896) vol. ii. p. 123, fig. 24. 
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A beautiful member of a large Eastern Asiatic genus 
which contains, including one doubtful Madagascar plant 
seventy-two species, according to Clarke’s Monograph of 
the Cyrtandrex (in Alph. DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. v. 
pt-I.) to which must be added, besides that here figured, 
seven Malayan species described by Mr. Ridley in the 
- Transactions of the Linnzan Society, Ser. II. vol. 111. (1893) 
p- 328, and twelve in the Journal of the same Society, 
vol. xxxii. (1896) p. 505. D. malayanas belongs to the 
section Heterobea of Bentham (Gen. Plant. 1.c. 1022) 
characterized by the five narrow calyx segments, subven- 
tricose elongate corolla, two stamens with coherent 
anthers, a cupular disk, and few-flowered scapes. It 
_ differs, however, from all the previously described plants 
of that section in being stemless. Its nearest ally is pro- 
bably D. crinita, Jack, (Tab. 4554) also a native of 
Penang, with which it agrees in the form of the corolla, 
and in the connective of the anthers being provided with 
two similar but much shorter projections, In other 
Maxcu Ist, 1897. 
