a new Natural Order of Plants. Sg 



Seeds naked, elongated, pendulous, inserted on the invo- 

 lute margin of the lobes of the dissepiment. 



Obs. The pseudo-quadrilocular structure of the capsule is here 

 remarkably distinct ; it is a well-marked handsome species, 



ij. ^, having numerous flowers supported on long slender ascend- 

 ing peduncles. 



7. DiDYMOCARPUS FRUTESCENS. Mai. MisC. Vol. i. 



D. caule suiFrutescente 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. Stipules none. Peduncles axillary, fasci- 

 cled, one- to three-flowered, shorter than the petioles, pur- 

 plish. Bracts lanceolate acute. Calyx tomentose, with 

 glandular hairs, tubular, five-parted ; lacinia linear, spread- 

 ing above. Corolla white, tomentose without like the ca- 

 . lyx, infundibuliform, incurved, all the laciniae 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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