Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



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Obs. — This species has great resemblance in general habit 

 and in form of the leaves to the preceding, but differs wide- 

 ly in the inflorescence, which is here very peculiar. The 

 peduncles divide into two branches of equal length, on each 

 of which flowers are arranged by pairs, forming two racemes 

 supported by a common peduncle. 



3. DIDYMOCARPUS REPTANS. MaL Misc. vol i. 



D. prostrata reptans, foliis petiolatis ellipticis crenulatis, 

 pedunculis 1 — 3 axillaribus unifloris, staminibus duobus fer- 

 tilibus. 



Timmu Kichil. Malay, 



Found in the forests of Pulo Penang with the preceding. 



Stem prostrate, round, villous, striking root at every joint, 

 often a foot in length. Leaves lying flat, opposite, petiolate, 

 oblong-oval or elliptic, rather obtuse, sometimes slightly cor- 

 date at the base, slightly crenate, covered with white hairs, 

 green above, paler and sometimes reddish beneath. Petioles 

 villous. Peduncles one to three, axillary, one-flowered, erect, 

 as long as the leaves, pilose, furnished with two bracts near 

 the summit. Calyx five-parted, with erect acute lacinise, 

 the uppermost smaller. Corolla white infundibuliform, sub- 

 irregular, similar to that of D. crinita, but smaller as well as 

 the whole plant. Stamina two fertile, conniving above, two 

 sterile. Anthers approximate, reniform, two-celled. Nectary 

 surrounding the base of the ovarium, obsoletely five-toothed 

 at the margin. Style equal to the stamina. Stigma simple. 

 Capsule long, straight, silique-shaped, pseudo-quadrilocular, 

 as in the genus. Seeds numerous, naked. 



4. DIDYMOCARPUS CORNICULATA. 

 MaL Misc, vol, i, 



D. erecta, foliis alternis obovatis acuminatis serratis flori- 

 bus fastigiatis secundis, pedunculo axillari elongato. 

 Found at Tappanooly in Sumatra. 



