respects, and especially in habit, the two plants widely 
differ, D. erinita being an erect caulescent species, clothed 
with shaggy purple hairs, and having oblanceolate, 
strongly serrate leaves, purple beneath. The character of 
the connective common to these two species is found in a 
few others, notably in the Himalayan D. awrantiaca, 
Clarke. 
The fine specimen of Didymocarpus malayana here figured 
was sent to Kew by Messrs. Veitch in June of last year, 
with the information that it was received by Mr. Curtis, 
F.L.S., Assistant Superintendent of Gardens and Forests 
in that island, of which I assume it to be a native, but it 
may have come from a neighbouring region. 
Descr.—Densely tufted, softly pubescent. Leaves spread- 
ing from the root, crowded in unequal pairs, two to three 
inches long, shortly stoutly petioled, broadly ovate, tip 
rounded, base rounded or subcordate, upper surface pale 
yellow-green, lower still paler, both surfaces and margins 
villous with appressed silky white hairs; nerves six to 
eight pair, arched, raised beneath. Scape two and a half 
to three inches high, slender, softly hairy, three- to four- 
flowered towards the summit ; pedicels very short ; bracts 
as long or longer than the pedicels, oblong, obtuse. 
Flowers nodding or drooping, about two inches long. 
Sepals one-third to one half an inch long, linear, obtuse, 
pubescent. Corolla with a slender terete tube, dilating 
into an infundibular-campanulate ventricose throat, pale 
straw-coloured and pubescent externally; limb an inch in 
diameter, subbilabiate, of five nearly equal orbicular — 
golden-yellow spreading lobes. Stamens inserted at the __ 
top of the corolla-tube, included in the throat ; filaments 
sigmoidly curved, quite glabrous; anthers scutelliform, 
coherent by their faces, connectives with two divergent 
short horns; staminodes three, minute. Disk shortly 
cylindric. Ovary narrow and long included straight 
style glandular-pubescent, stigma capitellate. Capsule 
one and a half inch long, very slender, straight, valves 
free to the base.—J. D. H 
Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, lower half of corolla laid open with stamens and 
staminodes ; 4, ovary and disk ; 5, transverse section of ovary :—All enlarged ; 
6, capsule of the zat. size. 
