Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack].

  • William Jack
Date:
[1820]
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Credit: Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Stem prostrate, round, villous, striking root at eve* iy joint, often a foot in length. Leaves lying flat, op¬ posite, petiolate, oblong oval or elliptic, rather obtuse, sometimes slightly cordate at the base, slightly cre¬ mate, covered with white hairs, green above, paler and sometimes reddish beneath. Peliules villous Pe dancles X — 3 axillary, one flowered, erect, as Ion g as the leaves, pilose, furnished with two bracts near the summit. Calyx five parted, with erect acute lacunae, the uppermost smaller. Corolii white, infundibuli- form, bilabiate, similar to that of D. crinita but small¬ er, as well as the whole plant. Stamina two fertile conniving above, two sterile. Anthers approximate, re- inform, two celled. Nutary 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 quadii locular as in the germs. Seeds numerous, naked. DXDYMOCARPUS CORNXCULATA. (IV. J.) Erecta, foliis alternis obovatis acuminatis serrati% floribus diandris fasciculatis secundis super peduncm lum axillarem elongatum. Pound at Tapanooly in Sumatra. The stem is nearly erect, from one to two feet in Jb^htj, herbaceous or somewhat shrubby, villous.