Didymocarpus.'] cvi. GESNEiucEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 355 



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

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

 glabrous, stigma oblique subpeltate. Capsule not seen. 



Y. DZDXSSAZTDBA., Clarke. 



Scapose perennials or sufFrutescent. Stamens 4 fertile, didynamous. 

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



Sect. 1. Bceaides, Benth. Soapose. Nerves of leaf very strong 

 beneath, radiating. 



1. p. lanug'inosa, Clarke ; stem hardly any, leaves elliptic or ovate, 

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

 Cat. 791, not of Maximov.; BC. Prodr. ix. 268; Clarke Coram. 4" Ci/rt. 

 Beng. t. 67. — Didymocarpoid, Ghriff. Bin. Notes, 64, n. 987. 



Tbmpeeatb Himaiaxa, alt. 5-8000 ft., from Simla (Tldgeworth) to Bhotan 

 ( Griffith) not common ; Sikkim, Lachen, J. D. S. Khasia Mis., alt. 5000 ft. ; 

 Kollong Koek, Griffith, B.f. ^ T., &c. 



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

 Leaves crowded, 3 by IJ in., obtuse, base attenuated, crenate, above deciduously hiir- 

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

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

 glabrate, compound; pedicels ^-i in. Sepals -f^ in., lanceolate. Corolla | in., 

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

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



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

 ginosa, but cymes densely woolly with brown hair. 



Eastben Tibet ; Chumbi (E. of Sikkim), alt. 12,000 ft. {Serl. 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 J in. long. 



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

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



3. D. frutescens, Jack in Mal..Misc. i. ii. 1, and in Trans. Linn. 

 Sop. xiv. 39 ; leaves oblanceolate falvous-silky beneath, corolla 1^ in., 

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

 frutescens, Spreng. Syst., cures post. 13. 



Penajto; Wallich. MALACCA; Griffith (Kew Distrib. u. 3856), Maingay 

 (Kew Distrib. n. 1222). — DiSTElB. Sumatra. 



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

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

 bracts J in., narrow, silky; pedicels often 2, i in., soon glabrous. Sepals \m., nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, silky. Corolla 1| in. long, funnel-shaped, white, villous, soon 

 nearly glabrous. Anthers small, round, cohering in pairs, when young of 2 divaricate 

 ellipsoid cells, cells early confluent. Ovary glabrous; style minutely hairy. Capsule 

 3^ in. 



VI. CKXXtXTA, Ham. 



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

 whorled or alternate, elliiitic or ovate, rarely lanceolate. Cymes axillary, 

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

 deciduous. Calyx 6-fid or sub-5-partite, not very small (except in C. hamosa) ; 



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