a new Natural Order of Plants. 35 



minate, serrate, ciliated. Flowers white, as in the genus. 

 Calyx five-parted, erect, reddish, hairy. Capsules linear, 

 straight, generally deflexed, nearly cylindrical, rough with 

 short erect hairs, pseudo-quadrilocular. Seeds naked. 

 Obs. This species has great resemblance in general habit and 

 in the form of the leaves to the preceding, but differs widely 

 in the inflorescence, which is here very peculiar. The pe- 

 duncles divide into two branches of equal length, on each 

 of which the flowers are arranged by pairs, forming two 

 racemes supported by a common peduncle. 



3. DlDYMOCARPUS REPTANS. Mai. MlSC. Dol. \. 



D. prostrata reptans, foliis petiolatis ellipticis crenulatis, pe- 

 dunculis 1 — 3 axillaribus unifloris, staminibus duobus fer- 

 tilibus. 



Timmu Kichil. Malay. 



Found in the forests of Pulo Penang with the preceding. 



Stem prostrate, round, villous, striking root at every joint, often 

 a foot in length. Leaves lying flat, opposite, petiolate, 

 oblong-oval or elliptic, rather obtuse, sometimes slightly 

 cordate at the base, slightly crenate, covered with white 

 hairs, green above, paler and sometimes reddish beneath. 

 Petioles villous. Peduncles one to three, axillary, one-flow- 

 ered, erect, as long as the leaves, pilose, furnished with 

 two bracts near the summit. Calyx five-parted, with erect 

 acute laciniae, the uppermost smaller. Corolla white, in- 

 fundibuliform, sub-irregular, similar to that of D. crinita, 

 but smaller as well as the whole plant. Stamina two fertile, 

 conniving above, two sterile. Anthers approximate, reni- 

 form, two-celled. Nectary surrounding the base of the 

 ovarium, obsoletely five-toothed at the margin. Style equal 



f2 to 



