Didi/mocarpus.] cvi. GESNERACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 347 



Clarke Comm. $ Cyrt. Seng. t. 56. D. verticillata, Wall. Cat. 783. 

 Henckelia oblonga, Spreng. Syst. cur ce post. 13. 



NEPAL ; Wallich. SIKKIM ; Lachen, alt. 7-11,000 ft., and Siuchul, alt. 8500 ft.. 

 J. D. H. 



Stem 2-5 in., villous-pubescent, at flower-time with 4 subverticillate leaves at its 

 apex otherwise leafless ; or elongate with 3 or 4 remote nodes, opposite leaves, and 

 both axillary and terminal peduncles. Leaves opposite, 4 by li in., subobtuse, closely 

 villous above, glabrous beneath with villous nerves ; petiole \-Z\ in., patently villous. 

 Peduncles 2 in., glandular-pilose, glabrate upwards; bracts | in., broad, connate, 

 glabrous, coloured, subpersistent. Calyx | in., campanulate. Corolla ^ in., dark 

 purple. Recognized by its small capsule. 



8. D. villosa, Don Prodr. 123; stem 4-leaved at the apex very 

 villous, leaves ovate or obovate obtuse crenate closely silky-villous above, 

 cymes glabrous, calyx divided less than half-way down lobes obtuse, capsule 

 nearly f in. sessile. DC. Prodr. ix. 266, not of Clarke. Henckelia villosa, 

 Spreng. Syst. cur ><% post. 13. 



NfPAL; Wallich. 



Stem 2-6 in., densely covered with long spreading hairs, leafless except at the 

 apex. Leaves opposite, 2 by 1^ in., beneath villous or nearly glabrous on the lamina ; 

 petiole 0-^ in., patently villous. Peduncles 1-3 in.; bracts in , ovate, connate, 

 coloured, glabrous ; pedicels | in. Calyx % in., campanulate, glabrous. Corolla % in. 

 or rather more (apparently black-purple). Seems very near D. aromatica, Wall., 

 which has not the densely woolly stem. 



9. D. aromatica, Wall. Cat. 785 chiefly, PI. As. Rar.u.4A, 1. 141, 



excl.fiy. 4-7; stem 4-leaved at the apex, leaves ovate or elliptic crenate 

 softly hairy above, lower bracts herbaceous more or less pubescent, cyme 

 glabrous, calyx divided one-third way down lobes rounded, capsule f in. 

 sessile. Clarke Comm. 8f Cyrt. Benq.i. 59, excl. fruiting plant-, not of D. 

 Don ; DC. Prodr. ix. 267, partly. D. prirnulifolia, Don Prodr. 123, partly. 

 Henckelia primulifolia, Spreng. Syst., curce post. 14, partly. 



NEPAL ; Wallich. 



Stem 4-6 in., pilose, leafless except at the apex. Leaves opposite, 4 by 24 in., 

 densely softly strigose on both surfaces or glabrate between the nerves beneath; petiole 

 unequal, -2 in. Inflorescence shorter than the leaves ; peduncles (usually 2) 1-2 in.; 

 lower bracts in., ovate, green, not connate, often denticulate, deciduous; cymes 

 upwards with the pedicels and calyces glabrous. Calyx in., campanulate. Corolla 

 | in., purple, nearly glabrous. Capsule-stalk hardly ^ in. Don confused D. 

 aromatica, Wall., with D. subalternans, Wall., and described his D. primulifolia 

 from both ; Brown therefore (in Benn. PI. Jav. liar. p. 118) rejected the name 

 D. primulifolia. 



10. D. podocarpa, Clarke; stem 4-leaved at the apex, leaves ovate 

 or elliptic crenate minutely pilose above, bracts glabrous, calyx divided 

 way down lobes obtuse, capsule 1-1 g- in. pedicelled. 



SUBALPINE SIKKIM ; Lachen, alt. 10-12,000 ft., J. D. H. ; Sinchul, alt. 8000 ft., 

 J. D. H. ; Singalelah, alt. 8000 ft., Treutler, &c. 



Stem 2-8 in., ashy-pubescent, leafless except at the summit. Leaves oppo 



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- ., -, 



attainiuo- 6 by 4 in., pubescent only on the nerves beneath; petiole 0- in., m 

 short. "Peduncles 2-4, 1-2* in./ bracts J in., wide-rotund, coloured, subconnate; 

 pedicels i- in., glabrous. Calyx nearly in., campanulate. Corolla nearly 1 in., 

 purple, glabrous or sparsely pilose without. C.tpmle-stallc longer than sometimes 

 nearly twice as long as, the calyx. -Differs from the 3 preceding closely allied species 

 by the larger flowers and larger long -pedicelled capsule. 



11. D. subalternans, Wall. Cat. 782; leaves scattered and opposite 



