a new Natural Order of Plants. 33 



Folia simplicia opposita, raro alterna, cequalia, Jlorihus axillaribiis 

 pedunculatis vel racemosis. 



1. DiDYMocARPus CRiNiTA. Malay Miscell. vol. i. 



Tab. II. Fig. 2. a—i. 



D. erecta, foliis alternis longis spathulatis acutis serratis pilosis 

 subtus rubris, pedunculis 2 — 5 axillaribus unifloris basi 

 cum petiolis coeuntibus. 



Timmu. Malay. ' 



In the forests of Pulo Penang. 



Root long and tapering. Stem short, erect, thick, rough beneath, 

 withthe vestiges of fallen leaves. The whole plant is covered 

 with hairs. Leaves alternate, crowded, sub-sessile, long, 

 spatulate, nine to ten inches in length, acute, obtuse at 

 the base, serrated, rugose, hairy, brownish-green above, 

 purplish-red beneath ; middle nerve strong and thick, form- 

 ing a short petiole at the base. Stipules none. Peduncles 

 two to five in each axil, one-flowered, round, two inches 

 long, uniting at the base into a short thick unilateral rachis, 

 densely pilose, and adhering beneath to the petiole. Bracts 

 linear, two, alternate on each peduncle. Calyx five-parted* 



I hairy, reddish ; laciniae erect, linear, acute, the upper one 

 smaller. Corolla white, tinged with purple externally, much 

 longer than the calyx, infundibuliform ; tube somewhat 

 gibbous at the base, incurved, expanding above ; limb sub- 

 bilabiate ; upper lip two-lobed ; lower three-lobed, larger, 

 internally streaked with yellow ; all the segments roundish, 

 obtuse, not very unequal. Stamina inserted within the 

 tube, two fertile, with the rudiments of two abortive ones, 

 the former scarcely so long as the corolla, conniving at their 

 summits. Anthers composed of two divaricate transverse 



VOL. XIV. F lobes. 



