350 cvi. GESNERACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Didymocarpus. 



Corolla glabrous, tube cylindric violet, limb slightly oblique white ; lobes | in. diam., 

 obtuse. Stamens 2 fertile ; anthers oblong-ppltate, cohering. Ovary minutely hairy, 

 pedicelled elongate ; style hardly any, stigma large circular. Capsule not seen. 



Sect. 3. Didymanthus. Caulescent, sometimes but shortly. 

 Leaves distant, upper (at least) opposite. Peduncles long ; cyme-branches 

 often elongate, subracemose with 2-nate pedicels. Calyx sub-5-partite. 

 Corolla small or middle-sized ; tube narrow or broad at the base. Disc 

 or shortly cylindric. Capsule 2-valved, rarely at first follicular. Species of 

 the Malay Peninsula and adjacent islands. 



19. D. xnollis, Wall, Cat. 790; leaves elliptic crenate narrowed at 

 both ends hairy above, peduncles long, cyme lax viscous-pubescent, capsule 

 nearly in. sessile. DC. Prodr. ix. 266. 



BUBMA; Mts. near Pronie, Wallich. CHITTAGONG; at Seetakoond, J. D. H. Sf 

 T. T. 



Stem 8 in., villous, near the base hirsute with fulvous deflexed hair. Leaves 

 opposite, or the 4 uppermost subverticillate, 4 by 1| in., acute, membranous, glabrate, 

 beneath hairy on the nerves ; nerves 9-11 pair; petiole ^ in., or of the uppermost 

 leaves 0. Peduncles subterminal, often 4, 3 in., 12-fld. ; pedicels ^ in. Sepals -^ in., 

 linear. Disc shortly cylindric. Capsule symmetrically 2-valved glabrous. Corolla 

 not seen. 



20. D. paucinerva, Clarke-, leaves elliptic or obovate obtuse crenu- 

 late hairy above, peduncles subterminal long, cyme 2-8-fld. lax nearly 

 glabrous, capsule rather more than ^ in. subsessile. 



TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3853). 



Stem 6 in., slender, simple, sparingly pilose except near the base. Leaves opposite 

 (or the lower alternate), 2 by 1 in., closely shortly strigose above, glabrous whiter 

 beneath; nerves 5-6 pair, puberulous ; petiole g 1 in. Peduncles 2 in., slender; 

 pedicels ^-^ in. Disc shortly cylindric. Capsule 2-valved, glabrous. Corolla nut 

 seen. Appears closely allied to I), mollis. 



21. D. cordata, Wall. Cat. 781 ; leaves cordate deeply crenate fulvous 

 villous on both surfaces,, peduncles long, cymes lax subracemose, pedicels 

 distant often in pairs, corolla wide campanulate base gibbous. DC. Prodr. 

 ix. 265. 



PENANG; Wallich, Maingay, n. 1224. - 



Stem 20 in., fulvous-villous. Leaves (at least the upper) opposite, 6 by 4 in., 

 shortly acuminate, base rounded ; petiole 1| in. Peduncles 8 in. ; cymes often 

 6 in., glandular-hairy; bracts small, ovate, caducous; pedicels | in. Sepals 

 T ' s in., lanceolate, nearly glabrous. Corolln-tube % in. long and broad, glabrous ; 

 lobes ^ in. diam., round. Filaments short; anthers large, 4 cohering. Disc 0. 

 Ovary glabrous, sessile ; style glabrous, stigma small. Capsule f in., slender, sessile, 

 2-valved, or sometimes (in Wallich's examples) subfollioular (at least at first). 



22. D. barbinerva, Clarice ; leaves narrowly obovate minutely crenate 

 glabrous, midrib beneath hirsute, peduncles long, cyme dense glabrate, 

 bracts round, sepals elliptic. 



ATTEAN (near Moulmein). 



Stem upwards, with the petioles, rufous-villous. Leaves (at least the upper) 

 opposite, 6 by 1| in., suddenly narrowed at the base; nerves 11 pair; petiole f 1 in. 

 Peduncles 5 in., nearly glabrous ; cyme 1-H m - diam., many-fld. ; bracts \-^ in. 

 diam. ; pedicels short, in fruit sometimes in. Sepals ^ in., obtuse. Corolla % in., 

 widely campanulate (badly preserved, seems nearly as of D. cordata}. Stamens 2 

 fertile ; anthers 2-celled ; cells ovate, divaricate, scarcely confluent. Ovary glabrous, 



