352 cvi. GESNBEACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Didymoearpus. 



27. D. platypus, Clarice; leaves alternate crowded sessile oblanceo- 

 late spai'sely villous base dilated incise-serrate, corolla 1^ in. narrowly- 

 funnel-shaped, capsule 2 in. slender linear. — Ohirita sp. n. 29, Serb. Ind. 

 Or. M.f. SfT.^ 



Maiaoca ; Oriffith, Cuming (u. 2359), &c. ; Mt. Ophir (fieri. WigTif). — Disteib. 

 Sumatra. 



Leaves 9 by 2J in., sprinkled above distantly with long hairs ; nerves 30 pair, 

 reticulated and villous beneath. Inflorescence, flowers, and capsules as of D. crinita, 

 of which I suspect that this is a variety. 



** 8t'em, creeping ; leaves in opposite distant pairs. 



28. D. reptans, Jach in Mai. Misc. i. part ii. p. 3, and in Trans. Linn. 

 Soe. 14, p. 35 ; creeping, leaves ovate or elliptic minutely crenate hirsute 

 above with long hairs, peduncles 1-fld., corolla ^ in. nearly glabrous. Wall. 

 Cat. 787 ; DC. Frodr. ix. 266. Henokeha reptans, Spreng. Syst., curapost. 

 p. 14 



PENANa; WallicTi, Maingay, Lolh. MOTTLMEIN ; ioii. 



Stem attaining a foot, branching, villous. Leaees opposite, 2 by 1 in., narrowed 

 at both ends, scarcely acute ; nerves 6 pair, villous beneath ; petiole \ in. Peduncles 

 \\ in., slender, thinly hairy ; bracts small, linear. Sepals ^ in., linear, pubescent. 

 Ovary and style shortly pubescent. Disc short, cylindric. Capsule §• in., follicular, 

 sometimes ultimately 2-valved. 



29. D. marg'inata, Clwrhe ; creeping, lea;Ves broad elliptic sprinkled 

 with small hairs above ciliate-villoua on the margin, peduncles 1-fld., corolla 

 J in. villous. 



Malacca; Loll. • 



Stem villous, rooting at the nodes. Leaves 2| by IJ in., obtuse at both ends, 

 snbentire ; petiole 1 in. Sepals ^ in., linear. — Very near D. reptans ; the sepals are 

 twice as long, the corolla hairy, the indumentum of the leaves different. 



Sect. 5. Zioxocarpus. Stemless, or one doubtful species creeping. 

 Leaves crowded, nearly entire. Peduncles longish, few- or many-fld. ; bracts 

 small, narrow. Calyx divided nearly to the base. Gorolla-tube short, limb 

 2-lipped, wide. Disc 0. Ovary sessile, pubescent ; style as long as the ovary. 

 Capsule lanceolate or linear, usually oblique at the base, follicular. — Malayan 

 species. (Loxocakptts, £r. in Benn. PI. Jav. Par. pp. 115, 120.) 



30. D. incana, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 1022 ; leaves round often subcor- 

 date densely white-silky on both surfaces, cyme many-fld., capsule i-^ in. 

 lanceolate base oblique. Loxonia ? alata, Wall. Cat. 809. Loxocarpus alata, 

 Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Par. 120; DC. Prodr. ix. 277. 



Penang-; WallicTi, Maingay. Sing-apoee; Loll. 



Scapose. Leaves 1-3 in. diam., obtuse, entire or shallow-crenulate ; petiole J-2 in. 

 Peduncles 3 in., white-villous ; bracts J in., linear ; cyme very compound, white silky- 

 villous. Sepals \ in., linear. Corolla scarcely J in., wide-campanulate, blue. Ovary 

 villous ; style glabrous. Capsule acute, white-villona. 



31. D. semitorta, Clarice ; leaves elliptic or ovate silky above reti- 

 culated beneath with broad densely villous nerves, peduncles 1-2-fld., sepals 

 white-pilose, capsule J in. doubly curved half twisted round near the base. 



Malacca; Mt. Ophir, QriffitTi, Loll, Maingay. 



Scapose. Leaves 1^ by | in., obtuse at both ends, entire or obscurely crenate, 

 densely softly silky above, glabrous between the nerves beneath ; petiole up to 1 J in. 



