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*I3I. DiDYMOCAKPUS ROBINSONII, Ridl. op. cit. p. 318. 

 Abundant in the Gull}-. The flowers are rather white streaked 

 with violet and with a yellow blotch in the tube, than purplish 

 streaked with white as originally described. Endemic. 



132. DiDYMOCARPUS (SaLICIN^E) FILICIFOLIA, H. Sp. 



Stem woody, 3 — 4 inches long. Leaves crowded at the 

 top, oblong, linear, acuminate, base more or less narrowed, 

 decurrent and obtuse on the petiole, margins bluntly closely 

 serrate, above dark green, beneath whitish, glabrous, midrib 

 and petiole transversely rugose, nerves about 17 pairs, 3^-5^ 

 inches long, \ inch wide or little less ; petiole ^ iuch long. 

 Peduncles * red, scurfy, slender, 1^-2 inches long, 2-4 

 flowered. Bracts linear, acuminate, ^ inch long. Calyx-lobes 

 narrow, linear acute, as long. Corolla short, campanulate, 

 curved ; lobes ovate, acute, i inch long, white. Capsule 

 linear, cylindric, acuminate, half an inch long. 



Damp banks of the first Padang stream, local and nearly 

 out of flower. 



Closely allied to D. salicina, Ridl., of the Tahan River, but 

 differing in its leaf-base which is decurrent on the petiole 

 above, ending in a rounded point, the short petiole, more 

 parallel-sided leaves, and larger white flowers. The wrinkled 

 midrib is very curious. 



133. [DiDYMOCARPUS ERIC^FLORA, n. Sp. 



Stem over a foot tall, ^ inch through, woody, pale gla- 

 brous below, red-brown above when dry. Leaves elongate- 

 lanceolate, apex long, acuminate, base narrowed gradually, 

 somewhat inequilateral, glabrous, nerves 16-18 pairs, very 

 inconspicuous, midrib elevated, transverseh- rugose below, 

 channelled above, 6 inches long, i inch wide ; petiole \ inch. 

 The leaves are in slightly unequal-sized opposite pairs. Bracts 

 2, linear, glabrous. Peduncles ^ inch long, adnate to the 

 petioles. Pedicels erect, slender, ^ inch long, scurfy, pubescent. 

 Flowers in pairs, white. Sepals 5, linear, obtuse, blimt, green, 

 ^ inch long, very narrow, spreading. Corolla ^ inch long, 

 thick, tubular, slightly gibbous, below pubescent, white ; lobes 

 very short, -^j^ inch long, ovate-obtuse, subequal, violet, gla- 

 brous within. Stamens 2, very short, less than half the 

 length of the tube; filaments linear, straight; anthers rather 

 large, cordate, obtuse. Style longer, fairly stout, pubescent ; 

 ovary angled, tapering slightly upwards. Stigma orbicular. 

 Capsule I inch long, cylindric, acuminate at the tip, slightly 

 upcurved, glabrous. 



Wray's Camp, Tahan, not common. 



The only plant at all allied to this is D. lilacina, Ridl., 

 which is common on the Tahan River. It is allied in the 

 connature of the axillary peduncle of the inflorescence to 

 the petiole, in the groove of which it seems to be imbedded. 

 The short broad corolla-tube (somewhat of the shape of a 

 heath flower), the short stamens (of which, however, the 

 anthers are not connivent as in Parabcea, but are free and ovate, 



