PLATE 68. 
70. DIDYMOCARPUS ELATIOR Prain їп Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvii. 2. 299 (1898). 
Natural order Gesneracez, 
A small undershrub, the young branches rufescent with spreading hairs, at 
length glabrous; leaves opposite, of each pair unequal, ovate-lanceolate, slightly unequal- 
sided, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin iinely serrate, lamina sparsely adpressed 
puberulous above, pubescent especially on the nerves beneath, 4—-8 сш. long, 
2'9—9'9 em. wide, petioles rufous-pubescent, 2 cm. long; cymes few-flowered, axillary, 
with slender, elongated, puberulous peduncles 3 сш, long, bracts lanceolate; pedicels 
1 em. long, slender; calyz 6 mm. long, campanulate, split to the middle or rather 
lower into 5 ovate-acute teeth; corolla pale-purple, subsymmetric, tubular, almost 
straight, very sparingly puberulous without, З cm. long; capsule 2°5—3 cm. long, 
4 mm. wide, erect on the pedicel. 
Вовмл: Kachin Hills, near Sima, on banks of streams, at 5,000 ft. elev.; 
King’s Collector ! 
A very distinct species unlike any other northern опе, and in habit most 
resembling D. corchorifolia Wall, a native of Penang and Malacca. The peduncles 
are oftenest  3-flowered but are поб infrequently 5-flowered owing to the 
lateral flowers of the cyme being geminate instead of solitary. | 
Pirate 68.—Didymocarpus elatior Prain. 1, flowering branch; 2, fruiting branch; from 
Kachin Hills,—of natural size; 3, flower, corolla removed; 4, corolla of same, laid open; 5, stamen 
aud staminode; 6, ovary ;-а somewhat enlarged. 
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PLATE 69A. 
71. PLECTRANTHUS PHARICUS Prain in Journ.’ Аз. Soc. Beng. lix. 2. 297 (1890). 
Natural order Labiate. 
A dwarf tomentose or puberulous undershrub ; stems woody and rounded below, 
4-angled above, 15—30 em. high; leaves small, sessile or subsessile, ovate or rounded, 
crenate, glabrate above, tomentose at least on the nerves beneath, 1—1:25 cm. long, under 
1 cm. wide; cymes few-flowered, rather dense, racemosely set on axillary peduncles 
5—7:5 mm. long; calyx pedicellate, narrow, sub-bilabiate, subhispid, strongly nerved, 
enlarging in fruit, 4 mm. (in fruit 7 mm.) long, 2°5 mm. wide; teeth acute, the two 
lower one-half longer than the three upper, the tube contracted above the nutlets in 
fruit, the pedicels 2—3 mm. long; corolla 9 mm. long, tube short (only 4 mm. long) and 
wide (2:5 mm.), lips large the lower 5 mm. long ; nut/eís pale, faintly reticulated, smooth, 
oblong, 2°5 mm. long, 1:5 mm, broad. 
Eastern HIMALAYA : Phari; Sourg Тівет: Wei; King’s Collectors ! 
An exceedingly distinct species, а member of the group which includes Plectranthus 
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melissoides Benth., and P. rugosus Wall., between which it stands in some respects inter- 
medaite, | | 
