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in pairs, each pair rather remote. Bracts Hnear, at the 

 base of the pedicels. Calyx five-cleft ; lacinice linear, acute, 

 erect, tomentose, as well as the whole spike. Corolla tubu- 

 lar, somewhat curved, white, with a purplish tinge, slightly 

 tomentose without, bilabiate ; upper lip two-lobed ; lower 

 rather elongated, three-lobed. Stamina four, didynamous, 

 each pair connected by their anthers. Anthers two-lobed, 

 reniform. Style shorter than the stamina. Stigma thickened, 

 emarginate. Capsule long, silique-shaped, pointed two- 

 valved, two-celled ; cells bipartite (pseudo-quadrilocular) : 

 seeds attached to the revolute edges of the placentae, which 

 from the pseudo-partitions of the cells, numerous, small, not 

 winged. 



Obs, — The remotely flowered secund spikes, and the 

 nearly tubular corolla with elongated lower lip, distinguish 

 this from all its congeners. 



6. DIDYMOCARPUS BARBATA. 



D. fruticosa, foliis oppositis ovatis subinaequilateralibus 

 hirsutis, pedunculis gracilibus axillaribus fasciculatis 2—6- 

 floris, staminibus quatuor apice barbatis : duobus sterilibus, 

 calyce infundibuliformi. 



Native of Sumatra. 



Fruticose, erect, the older branches round, the younger 

 somewhat compressed and furrowed on two opposite sides, 

 scabrous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, somewhat in- 

 equilateral at the base, acuminate, entire^ covered with 

 bristly hairs above, each inserted on a small papilla or 

 gland, villous beneath, with prominent nerves ; about four 

 inches long. Petioles about half an inch long. Peduncles 

 axillary, fascicled, long and slender, smooth, forming an 

 ascending curve, bifid or trifid, sometimes again divided, 

 so as to be dichotomous, 2 — 6-flowered. At each division 

 of the peduncle is situated a funnel-shaped bracteal cup, 

 apparently composed of two opposite bracts united nearly 



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