36 Dr. Jack on Cyrtandracece^ 



to the stamina. Stigma simple. Capsule long, straight, 

 silique-shaped, pseudo-quadrilocular, as in the genus. Seeds 

 numerous, naked. 



4. DiDYMOCARPUs coRNicuLATA. Mai. Misc. vol. i. 



D. erecta, foliis alternis obovatis acuminatis serratis, floribus 



fastigiatis secundis, pedunculo axillari elongate. 

 Found at Tappanooly in Sumatra. 



The stem is nearly erect, from one to two feet in height, herba- 

 ceous or somewhat shrubby, villous. Leaves alternate, pe- 

 tiolate, obovate, acuminate, narrowing to the base, ser- 

 rated, pilose above, villous below. Peduncles axillary, so- 

 litary, elongated, bearing several dense fascicles of flowers, 

 all turned to one side, depressed or bent at an angle to the 

 peduncle, and spreading in a kind of half-circle, somewhat 

 in the manner of the Lotus corniculatus. Flowers many, 

 white ; pedicels articulate below the calyx, covered as well 

 as the calyx with glandular hairs. Bracts linear, acute. 

 Calyx five-parted ; segments linear. Corolla white, much 

 longer than the calyx, infundibuliform, wide at the faux ; 

 limb somewhat oblique, bilabiate, the lower lip longer, 

 three-lobed. Stamina two fertile, connected above by their 

 anthers, whose lobes are transverse. Style as long as the 

 stamina. Stigma capitate. Capsule silique-shaped, two- 

 celled ; cells bipartite (as if four-locular), two-valved, gene- 

 rally bursting at one side, many-seeded. Seeds naked. 



The disposition of the flowers and fruit is peculiar, the capsules 

 spreading horizontally like radii in a sort of semicircle, of 

 which the peduncle is the axis. 



5. DiDYMOCARPUs 



