Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



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aemulis (ideoque fructum bicapsularem mentientibus) mar- 

 gine involuto seminiferis. Semina nuda pendula. 



Folia simpUca opposita, raro alterna^ (Bqualia^ floribus axil- 

 laribus pedunculatis vel racemosis, 



1. DIDYMOCARPUS CRINITA. Malay Miscell. vol. i. 

 Tab. IL Fig. 2. a—i. 



D. erecta, foliis alternis longis spathulatis acutis serratis 

 pilosis subtus rubris, pedunculis 2 — 5 axillaribus unifloris 

 basi cum petiolis coeuntibus. 



Timmu. Malay. 



In the forests of Pub Penang. 



Root long and tapering. Stem short, erect, thick, rough 

 beneath, with the vestiges of fallen leaves. The whole plant 

 is covered with hairs. Leaves alternate, crowded, sub- 

 sessile, long, spathulate, nine to ten inches in length, acute, 

 obtuse at the base, serrated, rugose, hairy^ brownish-green 

 above, purplish-red beneath ; middle nerve strong and thick, 

 forming a short petiole at the base. Stipules none. Peduncles 

 two to five in each axil, one-flowered, round, two inches 

 long, uniting at the base into a short thick unilateral rachis, 

 densely pilose, and adhering beneath to the petiole. Bracts 

 linear, two, alternate on each peduncle. Calyx five-parted, 

 hairy, reddish ; laciniae erect, linear, acute, the upper one 

 smaller. Corolla white, tinged with purple externally, much 

 longer than the calyx, infundibuliform ; tube somewhat gib- 

 bous at the base, incurved, expanding above ; limb subbila- 

 biate ; upper lip two-lobed ; lower three-lobed, larger, inter- 

 nally streaked with yellow; all the segments roundish, ob- 

 tuse, not very unequal. Stamina inserted within the tube, 

 two fertile with the rudiments of two abortive ones, the 

 former scarcely so long as the corolla, conniving at their 

 summits. Anthers composed of two divaricate transverse 

 lobes. Ovarium linear, surrounded at the base with a 



