LoxosUgma.] ovi. gesneeaobj;. (C. B. Clarke.) 345 



vent in pairs, connective not appendaged. Style subpersistent. Capsule 2|-5 in. — 

 Wight's example of this was from Griifith in early flower; in his' picture cited he 

 guessed the colour of the flower wrong, and added a figure of a seed of some species 

 (probably) of Didymooarpus ; the figure thus concocted has defied identification until 

 Griffith's specimen in Wight's Herbarium was found. 



Stemless or erect terbs. Leaves opposite, alternate, 3-4-iiate or crowded. 

 Peduncles axillary, many- or few-fld. ; bracts rarely conspicuous ; •pedicels 

 cymose, subumbelled or subraoemed in pairs. Calyx small, 5-fid or nearly 

 -partite. Corolla-tube cylindric or ovoid, mouth oblique or subsymmetrio ; 

 lobes 5, rounded. Stamens, 2 perfect, 2-2 rudimentary ; filaments glabrous, 

 bent ; anthers cohering in pairs ; cells 2, ovate, early confluent. Disc 

 cyhndric or 0. Ovary stalked or sessile, narrow ; style long or short, stigma 

 peltate emarginate or unilateral oblong rarely 2-lobed; placentae deeply 

 inflexed, then recurved bearing ovules. Capsule linear, rarely lanceolate, 

 loculicidally 2-valved or subfolhcular, ultimately usually 2- often 4-valved ; 

 valves not twisted before dehiscence ; placentas on the valves, revolate, con- 

 cealing the seeds. Seeds ellipsoid, small, smooth, minutely reticulate. — 

 DisiRiB. Species 70, in India, Malaya and S. China, 1 in Madagascar. 



Sect. 1. nXonopIiylloides. Plant very small, 1-leaved. 



1. D. pyg'maea, Clarke ; leaf sessile elliptic base cordate, pedicels few 

 short fascicled in its axil. 



Centbai India ; Rewah, Vicary. Chota Nagpore ; Lohardugga, Clarice. 



Pubescent. Stem ^2 in., slender, curved, bearing one leaf at its apex. Leaf (one 

 cotyledon persistent ?) 1 by f In. or much smaller, falcate, obtuse at both ends, sinuate 

 scarcely crenate, thin ; petiole rarely ^'j in. Pedicels \ in. ; bracts inconspicuous or 

 0. Sepals ^ in., linear, somewhat enlarged in fruit. Corolla J in., tubular. Stamens 

 2 fertile, 2 linear rudiments, glabrous ; anther-cells 2, ovate, oblique, scarcely con- 

 fluent by their tips. Ovary and style villous ; stigma small, subcapitate, scarcely 

 2-lobed. Capsule }-| in., nearly straight ; 2-valved, and seeds altogether as in 

 Didymooarpus. 



Sect. 2. Eudidymocarpus [Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 1022). Cymes 

 m.any-fld., subcorymbose. Calyx 5-lobed, or in D. Mortoni nearly 5-partite. 

 Corolla-tube cylindric. — Species confined to N. and N.E. India. 



2. D. pedicellata, Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Sar. 118 ; stem hardly 

 any, leaves roundly ovate glabrous glandular-punctate above, calyx divided 

 one-third the way down lobes rounded, capsule l-lj in. long-pedicelled. 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 267; Clarke Coram. S( Cyrt. Beng. t. 64. D,i macrophylla. 

 Wall. Cat. 1?,4!,pa/rtly; Boyle III. 294, t. 70, fig. 1. 



SuBTBOPiOAi. W. Himalaya; from Chumba to Kumaon, alt. 2500-5500 ft., 

 |requent, Wallich, Royle, Falconer, &c. 



Stem usually 0, sometimes IJ in. with 2 or 3 pairs of opposite cauline leaves, 

 glabrous ; innovations scabrous-puberulous. Leaves usually all radical, 3-6 in. diam., 

 crenate-serrate, the points on their upper surface conspicuous black, in age colourless 

 obscure without a lens ; petiole 2-5 in. Scapes 4 in. ; flowers often very many ; 

 bracts J in., ovate, often shortly connate. Calyx J in., funnel-shaped. Corolla nearly 

 1 in., purple. Capsule-stalk i-j- in., filiform. 



3. D. macrophylla, Wall. ; Don Prodr. 122 ; stemless, leaves ovate 



