Drymonia
(from drymos, an Oak wood, in allusion to the plant growing on trees in woods). ORD. Gesneraceae Stove prostrate radicant shrubs, or climbing upon trees. Flowers whitish or yellowish, on short axillary peduncles, often solitary. Leaves opposite, serrated, petiolate. There are about fourteen species, all natives of the tropical parts of the Western hemisphere. For culture, see Besleria.
D. bicolor (two-coloured). fl. purple; calyx large, green; limb of corolla sharply serrulated. l. oblong, acuminated at both ends, hairy, toothed. West Indies, 1806. Climbing shrub. (B. R. 1838, 4.) D. marmorata (spotted).* fl. creamy-white, axillary, fimbriated. l. large, opposite, 6in. long by 3 1/2in. wide, dark green, with the convex portions between the veins of a glistening-grey; margin crenate; under surface purplish; petioles long, reddish. Guiana (?). An erect-growing species, with obscurely tetragonal stems. (B. M. 6763.) D. punctata (spotted-flowered). fl. yellow, violet. May. Guatemala, 1843. Evergreen climber. (B. M. 4089.) D. Turialvae (Turialva).* fl. white, large, pendulous; lower lobe toothed and lip-like; calyx of a dull red colour; racemes axillary. l. broadly ovate, bullate, of a beautiful metallic shade. Veragua, 1870. A tall sub-shrubby plant. (I. H. 1869, 603.)