DidymocarpusJ] cvi. GESNERACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 353 



Peduncles 2% in., thinly hairy ; bracts ^ in., oblong ; pedicels in. Sepals in., 

 oblong. Corolla in. ; tube widely campanulate, limb very oblique. Ovary densely 

 pilose ; style nearly glabrous. 



Sect. 6. Orthoboea (Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 1022). Stemless, or 

 (D. repens) creeping. Leaves alternate or crowded. Peduncles long, many- 

 or few-fld. ; bracts small, narrow. Sepals- linear or narrowly oblong. 

 Corolla-tube cylindric or ventricose, not linear. Ovary sessile ; style about 

 as long as the ovary ; disc 0. Capsule' linear or sublanceolate, sessile, erect 

 or scarcely oblique at the base ; follicular, ultimately sometimes 2-valved. 

 Species of S. Deccan and Ceylon. 



32. D, Rottleriana, Wall. Cat. 778; leaves oblong or elliptic, 

 base attenuate deeply crenate white- villous on both surfaces, corolla ^ in., 

 capsule in. densely villous when young. Br. in. Benn. PL Jav. Bar. lit). 



NILGHIEI and KTJEG- MTS.; Heyne, &c. 



Leaves 3 by 1 in., obtuse, mature herbaceous softly strigose above pilose between 

 the nerves beneath ; petiole f in., broad, entire. Peduncles 4 in., many-fid. Sepals 

 T 'g in., narrowly oblong, villous. Corolla purple with yellow marks ; tube short, 

 mouth very oblique. Ovary very hairy ; style glabrous. Capsule very acute. 



VAK. Wightii ; leaves less deeply crenate thick rugose tomentose, even when old 

 sometimes densely white woolly, capsule less than ^ in. D. Rottleriana, Wight Ic. 

 t. 1348; A. DC. Prodr.ix. 268. Rottlera incana, VaU Enum. \. 88. Henckelia 

 iucana, Spreng. Syst. i. 38. Shevagherry Hills, near Courtallurn ; Wight. 



33. D. tomentosa, Wight Ic. t. 1349, and III. t. 159 Us, fig. 1 (stigma 

 incorrect) ; leaves elliptic attenuate at the base crenate tomentose, corolla ^ 

 in., capsule f in. sparsely villous. 



HILLS in S. MADKAS ; Courtallum, Jamalay, Bolamputty, Wight. 



Leaves 3 by 2 in., obtuse, white-villous above, ciunamoneous or ferruginous villous 

 or lauate beneath even when mature. Corolla-tube nearly ^-in., curved. Style thick, 

 glabrous; stigma large, glabrous. In other respects resembling D. Rottleriana and 

 a variety perhaps of it (Thwaites Enum. 207). 



VAB. lanuginosa ; petiole or very broad, leaves spathulate-orbicular cinnamoneous 

 tomentose beneath, peduncles long, cymes large. Courtallum ; Wight. 



34. X>. lyrata, Wight Ic. t. 1350; leaves lyrate, terminal lobe ovate 

 incise-crenate or sublobulate thinly herbaceous villous on both surfaces, 

 corolla scarcely in., capsule - in. sparsely villous. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; Courtallum, Wight. 



Leaves attaining 8 in.; petiole nearly 6 in., incise-pinnatifid ; limb 2-3 in. diam., 

 base rounded. Peduncles 4-6 in., villous. Flowers and capsules nearly as in D. 

 Rottleriana. Closely allied to Z>. Rottleriana, rather than to D. tomsntosa, which 

 has larger flowers and capsules. 



35. D. Humboldtiana, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 477 ; 

 leaves broadly elliptic, base usually rounded or cordate shallowly crenate 

 thickly tomentose ultimately silky, sepals ^ in. pilose, corolla 5 m. -Hot. 

 Mag. t. 4757. 



CEYLON ; up to 5000 ft. alt., common, Gardner, &c. 



Leaves 3 by 14-2^ in., obtuse, sometimes orbicular, base rarely shortly ftttenual 

 petiole i-2 in. Peduncles 2-4 in., pubescent, many-nd., or sometimes subracemose 

 few-fld. Corolla pale purple, puberulous without. Filaments of the sterile stamen, 

 nearly as long as of the fertile. Ovary pilose.; style glabrous. Gap** e $ m., o, 

 oblique at the base. 



VAB. primulafolia, Thwaites Enum. 207 (not D. primuhfolia, D 

 spathulate-elliptic, cymes subracemose slender, corolla scarcely m, sterile filameuts 

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