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DIDYMOCARPUS FRUTESCENS. W.J. 
Caule suffrutescente erecto, foliis oppositis longe petiolatis 
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis supra glabris subtus canes- 
centibus, floribus axillaribus fasciculatis didynamis. 
Native of Pulo Penang.—Stem generally simple, suffru- 
tescent, densely covered with ferruginous appressed scales, 
or chaffy hairs. Leaves opposite, long-petioled, ovato-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, attenuated to the base, slightly serrated, 
eight or ten inches long, smooth above, hoary and tomentose 
beneath, with appressed hairs. Petioles three inches long, 
furrowed above, thickened at the base, villous. Stipules none. 
Peduneles axillary, fascicled, 1-3-flowered, shorter than the 
petioles, purplish. Bracts lanceolate, acute. Calyx tomen- 
tose with glandular hairs, tubular, 5-parted, laciniæ linear, 
spreading above. Corolla white, tomentose without, like the 
calyx, much longer than it, infundibuliform, incurved; all 
the lacinie& subrotund, obtuse. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
arcuate, approximate at their summits, each pair connected 
by their anthers, The filaments of the upper pair are thick- 
ened below their middle. -Anthers white, adnate to the fila- 
ments, consisting of two lobes nearly parallel. Style the 
length of the stamens. (Stigma truncate. Capsule long, 
linear, silique-shaped, 2-valved, 2-celled, cells 2-parted by 
the septiform lobes of the dissepiments, which are revolute 
and seminiferous at their margins. Seeds numerous, naked. 
SONERILA ERECTA.* W.J. 
TETRANDRIA Monoeynia, | 
Erecta, ramosa, foliis lanceolatis serratis, racemis terminali- 
bus paucifloris, floribus sessilibus. 
Summow. Malay.—Native of the forests of Pulo Penang.— 
Root fibrous. Stem erect, six inches to a foot high, oppositely 
branched, round, tinged with red, fringed with two opposite 
longitudinal lines of hairs, (like that of Veronica Chamedrys.) 
Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, acute at both 
ends, serrated, villous, with erect hairs, 3-nerved, green 
1 This genus belongs to the family of Melastomacec. 
