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l-flowered, erect, as long as the leaves, pilose, furnished with 

 2 bracts near the summit. Calyx 5 -parted, with erect, acute 

 laciniae, the uppermost smaller. Corolla white, infundibuli- 

 form, bilabiate, similar to that of D. crinita, but smaller, as 

 is the whole plant. Stamens 2 fertile, conniving above, 

 2 sterile. Anthers approximate, reniform, 2-celled. Nectary 

 surrounding the base of the ovarium, obsoletely 5-toothed at 

 the margin. Style equal to the stamens. Stigma simple. 

 Capsule long, straight, silique-shaped, pseudo-4-locular, as in 

 the genus. Seeds numerous, naked. 



DIDYMOCARPUS CORNICULATA. W. J. 



Erecta, foliis alternis obovatis acuminatis serratis, floribus 

 diandris fasciculatis secundis super pedunculum axillarem 

 elongatum. 

 Found at Tapanooly in Sumatra. — Stem nearly erect, 1-2 

 feet high, herbaceous or somewhat shrubby, villous. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, obovate, acuminate, narrowing to the 

 base, serrated, pilose above, villous below. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, solitary, 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, some- 

 what in the manner of Lotus corniculatus. Flowers many, 

 white; pedicels articulate below the calyx, covered, as well 

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

 Calyx 5-parted, segments linear. Corolla white, much longer 

 than the calyx, infundibuliform, wide at the faux; limb some- 

 what oblique, bilabiate, the lower lip longer, 3-lobed. Stamens 

 2, connected above by their anthers, whose lobes are trans- 

 verse. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma capitate. Cap- 

 sule silique-shaped, 2-celled; cells bipartite, (as if 4-locular,) 

 2-valved, generally 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 semi- 

 circle, of which the peduncle is the axis. 



