XC. GESNERIACE.E. 
1131 
1. DIDYMOCARPUS, Wall. 
(Twin-fruited). 
Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-toothed, 5-fid, or 5-partite, the segments 
narrow. Corolla-tube elongate widening upwards, or short, broad and ventricose ; 
limb spreading, somewhat 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed, the 
lobes broad, slightly unequal. Stamens 2 lower, rarely 4 perfect, inserted at 
the base or middle of the tube or rarely higher, included ; filaments arched or 
flexuose. Anthers connivent or coherent ; cells divergent or divaricate, 
confluent at the point. Disk cupulate, surrounding the ovary or wanting. 
Ovary free, oblong-linear, imperfectly 4-celled. Style short or elongated, stigma 
slightly dilated, somewhat entire ; ovules densely covering the margins of the 
placenta. Capsule linear, 2-vnlved, valves entire. Seeds small, foveolate. 
Herbs rarely undershrubs, of various habit. Leaves radical, opposite, or rarely 
alternate. Peduncles or scapes axillary, bearing a loose cyme of few flowers. 
The species are met with in India, Malaya, South China, and Madagascar, besides Australia. 
1. D. Kinnearii (after Robert Kinnear), F. v. M., Viet. Nat., Mar. 1887. 
Stemless. Leaves lanceolate or cordate-ovate, almost membranous, conspicuously 
serrated, the upper surface sprinkled with septate hairs, the under surface as 
well as the long petioles silky-hairy. Peduncles about the height of the leaves, 
bearing a spreading softly hairy cyme of many small flowers; pedicels capillary, 
elongated, often in umbels. Bracts narrow. Calyx about half the length of 
the corolla ; segments broad-linear, narrowed upwards. Corolla white, 
glabrous, upper lobes deeply divided, the middle one of the lower lobes 
somewhat longer than the others, the tube slightly widened, not quite as 
long as the lobes. Stamens 2, as well as the style and ovary glabrous. 
Capsule hardly three times as long as the calyx, about twice the length 
of the style, narrow, ellipsoid-cylindrical, attenuated towards the summit, 
not stipitate ; placentas amply intruding. Seeds almost spindle-shaped. 
Hab.: Collected by Saycr and Davidson near the summit of one of the mountains of the 
Bellenden Ker Range. 
2. B./EA, Commers. 
(After Rev. Dr. Beau, of Toulon.) 
Calyx divided to the base into 5 segments. Corolla with a short broadly 
campanulate tube, the limb somewhat 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-lobed, the 
lower 3-lobed, the lobes all flat and spreading. Stamens 2, shorter that the 
corolla ; anther-cells diverging or divaricate, confluent at the apex into a single 
cell ; staminodia usually 3, very small. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule linear, 
spirally twisted, splitting usually into 4 valves. Seeds minute. — Herbs with a 
perennial stock and radical leaves, or in species not Australian a developed stem 
and opposite leaves. Peduncles or scapes axillary, bearing usually a dichotomous 
or umbellately branched panicle of flowers, without bracteoles. 
The genus comprises a very few Asiatic species, one of them.extratropieal, and one from the 
Seychelles Islands. The only Australian one is endemic. — Bentli. 
1. B. hygroscopica (found near water), F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 14G ; Bentli. 
FI. Austr. iv. 532. A perennial with a short thick woolly stock. Leaves 
radical, rosulate, broadly ovate or orbicular, crenate, sessile or contracted into a 
short broad petiole, thick soft and rugose, densely clothed with long woolly 
hairs, the larger ones 4 to 5in. long, but usually half that size. Scapes 4 to 8in. 
high, bearing a loose umbellately branched panicle of rather numerous deep-blue 
flowers, the inflorescence glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs. Bracts few and 
minute. Calyx-segmepts linear-oblong, about 1| line long. Corolla-tube broad 
