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DIDYMOCARPUS FRUTESCENS. W. J. 



Caule sufFrutescente erecto, foliis oppositis longe petiolatis 

 ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis supra glabris subtus canes- 

 centibus, floribus axillaribus fasciculatis didynamis. 



Native of Pulo Penang. — Stem generally simple, suffru- 

 tescent, densely covered with ferruginous appressed scales, 

 or chaffy hairs. Leaves opposite, long-petioled, ovato-lan- 

 ceolate, 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, fascicled, 1-3-flowered, shorter than the 

 petioles, purplish. Bracts lanceolate, acute. Calyx tomen- 

 tose with glandular hairs, tubular, 5-parted, laciniae linear, 

 spreading above. Corolla white, tomentose without, like the 

 calyx, much longer than it, infundibuliform, incurved; all 

 the laciniae subrotund, obtuse. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 arcuate, approximate at their summits, each pair connected 

 by their anthers. The filaments of the upper pair are thick- 

 ened below their middle. Anthers white, adnate to the fila- 

 ments, consisting of two lobes nearly parallel. Style the 

 length of the stamens. Stigma truncate. Capsule long, 

 linear, silique-shaped, 2-valved, 2-celled, cells 2-parted by 

 the septiform lobes of the dissepiments, which are revolute 

 and seminiferous at their margins. Seeds numerous, naked. 



SONERILA ERECTA.* W.J. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. 



Erecta, ramosa, foliis lanceolatis serratis, racemis terminali- 

 bus paucifloris, floribus sessilibus. 



Summow. Malay. — Native of the forests of Pulo Penang. — 

 i?oo^ fibrous. Stetn erect, six inches to a foot high, oppositely 

 branched, round, tinged with red, fringed with two opposite 

 longitudinal lines of hairs, (like that of Veronica Chamcedrys.) 

 Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, acute at both 

 ends, serrated, villous, with erect hairs, 3-nerved, green 



* This genus belongs to the family of Melastomacea. 



