38 Dr. Jack on Cyrtandracee, 
6. DIDYMOCARPUS BARBATA. 
D. fruticosa, foliis oppositis ovatis subinzequilateralibus hirsutis, 
pedunculis gracilibus axillaribus fasciculatis 2—6-floris, 
staminibus quatuor apice barbatis: duobus sterilibus, ca- 
lyce infundibuliformi. 
Native of Sumatra. 
Fruticose, erect, the older branches round, the younger some- 
what compressed and furrowed on two opposite sides, sca- 
brous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, somewhat in- 
equilateral at the base, acuminate, entire, covered with 
bristly hairs above, each inserted on a small papilla or 
gland, villous beneath, with prominent nerves; about four 
inches long.  Petioles about half an inch long. Peduncles 
axillary, fascicled, long and slender, smooth, forming an 
ascending curve, bifid or trifid, sometimes again divided, 
so as to be dichotomous, 2—6-flowered. At each division 
of the peduncle is situated a funnel-shaped bracteal cup, 
apparently composed of two opposite bracts united nearly 
their whole length. In the axillæ, at the base of the pe- 
duncles, the bracts are distinct and woolly. - Calyx infun- 
dibuliform, persistent, smooth ; mouth quinquefid. Corolla 
much longer than the calyx, infundibuliform ; limb five- 
parted; lacinie subrotund, nearly equal. Stamina four, of 
which two only are fertile and connected together by their 
anthers ; the filaments of both are furnished at the summit 
with a tuft of wool. Anthers with transverse lobes. Style 
nearly as long as the fertile stamina. Stigma sub-lobate. 
'The base of the ovary is surrounded by'a nectarial ring, 
as in the genus. Capsule silique-shaped, four-furrowed, 
long,somewhatarcuate, pseudo-quadrilocular, many-seeded. 
Seeds 
