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Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



white tubular entire nectarial ring or cup, and produced 

 into a tomentose style of the same length as the stamina. 

 Stigma obtuse, truncate. Capsule long, linear, silique- 

 shaped, cylindrical, acute, somewhat tomentose, one to two 

 inches long, two-valved, two-celled ; dissepiments contrary, 

 with two lobes, which are parallel to the valves, revolute and 

 seed-bearing at their margins, and parting the cells in such 

 a manner as to give the appearance of a four-celled siliqua. 

 Seeds numerous, naked, small, and subrotund. 



Obs.—The deep-red colour of the lower surface of the 

 leaves, and the crested disposition of the flowers in their 

 axils, render this a very remarkable species. The aestiva- 

 tion is imbricate, the two lateral lobes of the lower lip 

 being the outermost. 



2. DIDYMOCARPUS RACEMOSA. 



D. foliis oppositis lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis duplicato- 

 serratis supra glabris, pedunculis axillaribus plerumque bifi- 

 dis, floribus racemosis, pedicellis binatis. 



At Tappanooly, on the west coast of Sumatra. 



Stem short, erect, simple, rough with the vestiges of old 

 leaves. Leaves crowded, opposite, sub-petiolate, spreading, 

 about nine inches long, narrow-lanceolate, attenuated to- 

 wards both ends, duplicato-serrate, strongly nerved ; upper 

 surface smooth, with the exception of the middle rib, which 

 is furnished with long hairs ; all the nerves of the under 

 surface pilose. Petioles short, embracing the stem; densely 

 pilose above. Peduncles axillary, generally solitary, erect, 

 shorter than the leaves, covered with purple, glandular hairs, 

 generally dividing into two racemes, composed of many pedi- 

 cellate flowers arranged in pairs. Bracts lanceolate, accu- 

 minate, serrate, ciliated. Flowers white, as in the genus. 

 Calyx five-parted, erect, reddish, hairy. Capsules linear, 

 straight, generally deflexed, nearly cylindrical, rough with 

 short erect hairs, pseudo-quadrilocular. Seeds naked. 



