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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



their whole length. In the axillae, at the base of the pe- 

 duncles, the bracts are distinct and woolly. Calyx infun- 

 dibuliform, persistent, smooth ; mouth quinquefid. Corolla 

 much longer than the calyx, infundibuliform ; limb five- 

 parted ; lacinice subrotund, nearly equal. Stigma four, of 

 which two only are fertile and connected together by their 

 anthers ; the filaments of both are furnished at the summit 

 with a tuft of wool. Anthers with transverse lobes. Style 

 nearly as long as the fertile stamina. Stigma sub-lobate. 

 The base of the ovary is surrounded by a nectarial ring, 

 as in the genus. Capsule silique-shaped, four-furrowed, 

 long, somewhat arcuate, pseudo-quadrilocular, many-seeded. 

 Seeds naked, elongated, pendulous, inserted on the invo- 

 lute margin of the lobes of the dissepiment. 



Obs. — The pseudo-quadrilocular structure of the capsule 

 is here remarkably distinct ; it is a well-marked handsome 

 species, having numerous flowers supported on long slender 

 ascending peduncles. 



7. DIDYMOCARPUS FRUTESCENS. 

 Mai. Misc. vol. i. 



D. caule sufFrutescente erecto, foliis oppositis longe petio- 

 latis ovato-lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis supra glabris subtus 

 canescentibus, floribus axillaribus fasciculatis didynamis. 



Native of Pulo Penang. 



Stem generally simple, sufFrute scent, densely covered with 

 ferruginous appressed scales or chalFy hairs. Leaves oppo- 

 site, long-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, attenuated to 

 the base, slightly serrated, eight or ten inches long, smooth 

 above, hoary and tomentose beneath, with appressed hairs. 

 Petioles three inches long, furrowed above, thickened at the 

 base, villous. Stipules none. Peduncles axillary, fascicled, 

 one to three-flowered, shorter than the petioles, purplish. 

 Bracts lanceolate acute. Calyx tomentose, with glandular 

 hairs, tubular, five-parted ; lacinicc linear, spreading above. 



