38; Dr. Jack on Cyrtandracea, 



6. DiDYMOCARPUS BARBATA. 



D. fruticosa, foliis oppositis ovatis subinaequilateralibus 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- 

 Jarous. 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 axillae, at the base of the pe- 

 duncles, the bracts are distinct and woolly. Calt/.r infun- 

 dibuliform, persistent, smooth ; mouth quinquefid. Corolla 

 much longer than the calyx, infundibuliform ; limb five- 

 parted ; lacinice 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 



