Dichrotrichum
(from dichroos, having two colours, and thrix, hair; in reference to the tufts of hair at the end of each seed, in the original species, being differently coloured). ORD. Gesneraceae. A small genus of showy stove perennials, with habit of, and requiring treatment similar to, AEschynanthus (which see). Probably the only one in cultivation is that here described.
D. ternateum (ternate).* fl. crimson-red, tubular, sub-umbellate, in loose cymes. July. l. unequal, opposite; the large one cordate. Moluccas, 1872. (B. H. 1871, 22.)