all probability, the “‘ Didymocarpus ?” thus mentioned in Krauss’ 
‘Natal Flora,’ p. 122, “ e summis montibus inter Mauritzburg et 
Natalbay, alt. 2000-3000.” It is as a species widely different 
from the only hitherto described South African species, S. Revit ; 
and equally, or more so, from the Madagascar species of Brown 
and De Candolle, all of which are caulescent, with axillary in- 
florescence. 
Drscr. Leaves few, about two pair lying close to the ground, 
and, as it were, pressed down upon the soil: these pairs are ex- 
tremely unequal in size; one is nearly a foot long in our living 
plant, the opposite one scarcely two inches; both are alike in 
shape, cordato-oblong, rugose, downy, reticulately veined, the 
margin somewhat undulated and closely crenated: beneath, the 
veins are prominent, and the surface more downy. From one 
to three scapes arise from the sinus of the large leaf, a foot and 
more high, bearing a panicle, often bifid in the primary rami- 
fication, and many short divaricating subfasciculated pedicels, 
rarely bracteated, downy. Calyx hairy, with a short ovate tube, 
and five erect linear teeth or lobes to the limb, of which one is 
nearly twice the length of the rest. Corolla an inch and a half 
long, and as broad in the limb, delicate pale-blue, veined. Zube 
much curved ; Zimb very oblique, of five, spreading, reticulated, 
cuneated, toothed /obes. Stamens inclined : Jertile ones two, in- 
serted near the middle of the tube: sferi/e ‘ones near the base. 
Filaments hairy. Ovary cylindrical, hairy, with a short cylin-« 
drical style and conical stigma. 
Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Calyx and young fruit :—magnified. 
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