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Leaves entire or obscurely crenulate glabrous above 

 Flowers orange 3. D. flammea 



Flowers violet purple 



Corolla tube slender inf undibulifom 4> 

 Corolla very broad cylindric 5. 



Leaves serrate or dentate 

 Glabrous above 



Sepals linear lanceolate hairy 6. 



Sepals broadly lanceolate glabrous 7. 

 Leaves hairy above 



Capsule slender cylindric 



Sepals lanceolate acuminate \ inch 8. 



9. 



Sepals oblong ovate §• inch 10. 



Capsule short and thick 11. 



Leaves runcinate 12. 



Leaves deeply lobed 13. 



1. D. frutescens, Clarke, Mon. Phan. p. 67, PI. 7. 



Shrub with woody stems 3-4 feet tall, stems appressed- 

 hairy. Leaves opposite in alternate pairs distant elliptic 

 lanceolate to oblanceolate minutely crenulate apex, 

 subacute, narrowed cuneate at the base 7-9 inches long 

 3-4 inches wide above sprinkled with fine hairs, beneath 

 covered with appressed hairs especially on the nerves 

 and reticulations, nerves about 13 pairs, petiole 1^-3 

 inches long hairy, cymes axillary sessile with short 

 hairy branches 1 inch long, flowlrs 1-3 on a branch. 

 Sepals lanceolate narrow red hairy, corolla tube white 

 infundibuliform pubescent lobes rounded. Anthers ovoid 

 filaments curved in the middle. Ovary glabrous, style 

 pilose. Stigma sub-bilobed. Capsule slender cylindric 3 

 inches long glabrous longitudinally ribbed. 



Didymocarpus Jrutescens, Jack, Mai. 'Misc. 1, part 

 2, p. 5 ; Trans. Linn. Soc. 14, p. 39 ; Calc. Journ. Nat. 



R. A. Soc, No. 43, 1905, 



D. violacea 

 D. atropurpurea 



D. glabi escens 

 D. Wrayi 



D. hirta 

 D. serratifoHa 

 D. atrocyanea 

 D. latisepala 

 D. guercifolia 

 D. jilicina 



