Didymocarpus."\ cvi. GESNERACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 355 



racemed in pairs, or (ex Beddome) nearly umbelled. Sepals ^ in. Corolla -$ in., 

 tubular, curved, hairy without, blue, Ovary hairy; style as long as the ovary] 

 glabrous, stigma oblique subpeltate. Capsule not seen. 



Y. DXDXSSANDRA, Clarice. 



Scapose perennials or suffrutescent. Stamens 4 fertile, didynamous. 

 Otherwise as Didymocarpus. Species 7, extending from India to Borneo. 



Sect. 1. Bceoides, Benth. Scapose. Nerves of leaf very strong 

 beneath, radiating. 



1. D. lanus inosa, Clarice ; stem hardly any, leaves elliptic or ovate, 

 cymes and calyx glabrous or nearly so. Didymocarpus lanuginosa, Wall. 

 Cat. 791, not of Maximov. ; DC. Prodr. ix. 268; Clarice Comm. $ Cyrt. 

 Seng. t. 67. Didymocarpoid, Griff. Itin. 'Notes, 64, n. 987. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-8000 ft., from Simla (Edgeworth) to Bhotan 

 ( Griffith} not common ; Sikkim, Lachen, J. D. H. KHASIA Mxs., alt. 5000 ft. ; 

 Kollong Rock, Griffith, H.f. Sf T., &c. 



Stem hardly any, with the base of the petioles and peduncles fulvous -shaggy. 

 Leaves crowded, 3 by 1 in., obtuse, base attenuated, crenate, above deciduously hir- 

 sute, beneath when young fulvous-woolly ; petiole |-1 in., or from the attenuation of 

 the leaf-base 0. Scapes 2-6. in., glabrate upwards ; cymes young woolly, ultimately 

 glabrate, compound 5 pedicels - in. Sepals T > 5 in., lanceolate. Corolla in., 

 long, hairy, pale blue or purple. A nthers peltate, cohering in pairs. Ovary glabrous ; 

 style minutely pilose. Capsule f in., often curved. 



2. D. rufa, King in Hoolc. Ic. PI. t. 1437; stem and leaves of D. lanu- 

 ginosa, but cymes densely woolly with, brown hair. 



EASTERN TIBET ; Chumbi (E. of Sikkim), alt. 12,000 ft. (Herb. King}. 



Possibly only a state of D. lanuginosa, but the scape is stouter, pedicels shorter, 

 inflorescence densely woolly, the flowers smaller, calyx shorter and its lobes more 

 obtuse, the only capsule seen not ^ in. long. 



Sect. 2. Cyrtandroides. Suffrutescent. Peduncles short, axillary, 

 clustered, 1-3-fld. Nerves of leaf pinnate. 



3. D. frutescens, JacTc in Mai. Misc. i. ii. 1, and in Trans. Linn. 

 Sor. xiv. 39- leaves oblanceolate fulvous-silky beneath, corolla H in., 

 anthers small round. Wall. Cat. 780 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 265. Henckelia 

 frutescens, Sprang. Syst., cura post. 13. 



PENANG; Wallich. MALACCA; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3856), Maingay 

 (Kew Distrib. n. 1222). DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Branches densely fulvous-villous upwards. Leaves opposite, 9 by 2 in., acum 

 nate, minutely crenate, mature glabrate above ; petiole 2 in. Peduncles^ in., silky; 

 bracts in., narrow silky ; pedicels often 2, i in., soon glabrous. Sepals^ m., m 

 rowly lanceolate, silky. Corolla 1J in. long, funnel-shaped, white, villous, soo 

 nearly glabrous. Anthers small, round, cohering in pairs, when young pt J 

 ellipsoid cells, cells early confluent. Ovary glabrous ; style minutely nsiry . Lapsu 

 3| in. 



YI. CHIRITA, Ham. 



Herbs or low undershrubs. Leaves opposite, often unequal, sometimes 

 whorled or alternate, elliptic or ovate, rarely lan^olate.C^s 

 many- or few-fld., or peduncles 1-fld. ; bracts 2, shorter than the flc 

 deciduous. Calyx 5-fid or sub-5-partite, not very small (except in Cha. 



