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Seeds naked, elongated, pendulous, inserted on the invo- 
lute margin of the lobes of the dissepiment. 
Oss. The pseudo-quadrilocular structure of the capsule is here 
remarkably distinct ; it is a well-marked handsome species, 
having numerous flowers supported on long slender ascend- 
ing peduncles. 
7. DIDYMOCARPUS FRUTESCENS. Mal. Misc. vol. i. 
D. caule suffrutescente erecto, foliis oppositis longe petiolatis 
ovato-lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis supra glabris subtus 
canescentibus, floribus axillaribus fasciculatis didynamis. 
Native of Pulo Penang. 
Stem generally simple, suffrutescent, densely covered with fer- 
ruginous appressed scales or chaffy hairs. Leaves opposite, 
long-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, 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. Stipulesnone. Peduneles axillary, fasci- 
cled, one- to three-flowered, shorter than the petioles, pur- 
plish. Bracts lanceolate acute. Calyx tomentose, with 
glandular hairs, tubular, five-parted ; laciniæ linear, spread- 
ing above. Corolla white, tomentose without like the ca- 
lyx, infundibuliform, incurved, all the lacinize subrotund, 
obtuse. Stamina four, didynamous, arcuate, approximate 
at their summits, each pair connected by their anthers. The 
filaments of the upper pair are thickened below their middle. 
Anthers white, adnate to the filaments, consisting of two 
lobes nearly parallel. Style of the length of the stamina. 
Stigma truncate. Capsule long, linear, silique-shaped, two- 
valved, two-celled ; cells two-parted by the septiform lobes 
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