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2. SAX.OSKONIA, Lour. 



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Leafy diffuse annuals, or (Sect. Epirhizakthes) parasites, 

 reduced to scales. Flowers minute, in dense terminal spikes. Sepals n^^^^^ 

 equal, 2 interior somewhat larger. Petals 3, united at the base ^^'^^ /v 

 stamina! tube, the inferior keel-shaped, galeate, not crested. Stamens 4-&j 

 filaments united for their lower half into a sheath ; anthers openmg c>y 

 pores. Ovnry 2-celled, each cell with one pendulous ovule. Capsule mucfl 

 compressed laterally, 2-celled, loculicidal, margins toothed. Seeds^ albu- 

 minous, not or scarcely strophh)late.— Distkib. Species about 8, natives oi 

 Eastern tropical Asia and tropical Australia. 



Sect. I. Salomonia, DC. Stems leafy. 



1. S- cantoniensls, Lour, Fl. Cock 14; stem winged, leaves cord*Jj' 

 ovate shortly petioled, spikes rather lax, capsule with triangular tee • 

 WalL Cat 4192 ; DC. Prodr. i. 334 ; BentL Fl. ILmgh 44 ; Miq. ^J^^'J^ 

 Ind. i. Pt. 2, 127; Hassk in Mia. Ann. Mus. i. 144. S. subrotunda, U(^^^ 

 /.c— Salomonia, sp. 3 in Griff, ^otal. iv. 539. 



Eastern Bengal; A.ssam ; Khasia Mts., alt. 0-4000 ft. ; Eastern PENn^U!'*-'': 



J)iSTRiB. Malayan Arcliipelago, VJj 



A weedy erect much-Lraiiclied diffuse annual, 3-6 in. Leaves large, paler l^"®^^g' 

 ^ihes numerous, terminal, lax below, denser above. Bracts minute, early ^^^'ij".^^ 

 Flowera minute, quite sessile. >8^^aZ^ linear-subulate. Pttah united beloWt the 

 lateral shorter than tlie keel. Capsule very small, broader than long, armed w'ltb a 

 of recurved triangular teeth. Seeds black, shining, not strophiolate. 



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>C 2. S. cUiata, DC. Prodr. i, 334 ; stem furrowed, leaves sessile c^^^jjjl 

 ^mplexicaul ciliate, spike very dense, capsule with filiform teeth. fc>- ^ 





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16. P. glomerata, Lour. FL Coc/i. 426; stems tali erect or ascenaing, 

 leaves large from broad-ovate and oblong to elliptic lanceolate and linear, ^ 

 racemes extra-axillary very short, 2-3-flowered flowers drooping, outer | 

 sepals acuminate, wings herbaceous hatchet-shaped acuminate and awned, 

 capsule narrowly winged strongly ciliate. DC. Prod. i. 326- P. densiflora, 

 Blume Bijd.m] Uassk.in Miq. Mus. Bot. i. 166. P. depauperata, \\alL 

 Cat. Aim. 



Eastern Himat.aya, hot valleys of Sikkim, alt. 1-GOOO ft.; Oude; Assam; Khasta 

 Mts., alt. 0-5000 ft. ; Tenasserim — PisTiaB. Eastern Archipelago, China. _ -^^ 



Stems many from a woody stock, 1-2 ft. high, densely pubescent, curved. Leaves 

 very variahle, 1^-2^ in., fiat, glabrous or hairy, not veined, sessile or shortly petioled, 

 pometimes cordate. Bacemes scattered, small; peduncles shorter than the flowers, 

 which are j-^in. long, green. Outer sepals snbequal, acute, ciliate. Crest very s^**]* 

 Cap-^ule \ in. broad and long, 2-lobed. Seed^ large, silky, obovoid ; strophiole'witb ^^{jT 

 apitondages. — Thwaites's specimen named glomerata resembles it in habit, bnt diuers 

 totally in the capsule and seed; they no doubt belong to a large state of P.jftponica 

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P, linnrifoVa, Willd. Sn. PI. iii. 877 (Unearif dia, DC. Prodr. i. 326). 



P procumhem, Roth. ISov. Sp. 329; DC. Prodr. i. 326.— Ind. Or. » s 



P. varians. Mart. DC. I.e. 332, — Bengal, 



P, umbrosaj Mart. DC. I.e. — Bengal. 



P. macropetala^ Hassk. I.e., perhaps P. japonica var. 2. 



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