236 CXXXII SANTALACEE. (J. D. Hooker)  [Phacellaria, 
pressed, but fresh specimens are necessary to confirm this. Flowers smaller even than 
in P. rigidula, with the lobes often cleft to the base. — 
3. P. Wattii, Hook. f.; hoary, stems -much branched, branches stout, 
flowers clustered, perianth 5-cleft. 
, MANIPUR; on the mountains, alt. 7500 ft., Watt, growing on Loranthus. 
Stems 4-8 in. long, about }-in. diam., flexuous. Flowers larger than in the two 
former species, sometimes crowded in globose masses, hoary. 
8, CHAMPEREIA, Grif. 
Glabrous shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers minute, 
in 3—5-fld. axillary panicled cymes, 2-sexual (always P); bracts minute or 
0. Perianth inferior; segments 5, valvate. Stamens 5, perigynous, cr 
ments longer than the perianth, filiform; anther-cells parallel. Dk 
shortly 5-lobed between the stamens. Ovary superior, half immersed in the 
disk; stigma sessile, broad; ovule solitary, erect in the centre of the ce 
Drupe ellipsoid, pedicelled. Seed conform to the drupe; embryo terete, 
radicle superior clavate.—Species 1 or 2, Malayan. 
C. Griffithiana, Planch. in Herb. Hook.; leaves oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate acute or acuminate, male panicles very slender often exceeding 
the leaves. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 330 (Griffithii) —Champereia, Griff. in Cale. 
Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 237. 
TENASSERIM, and the ANDAMAN IsLANDS, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4388), &c. 
Maracca and PENANG, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 375, 1316). 
A small tree; branches slender, bark very pale. Leaves 3-6 in., coriaceous, ovate- 
oblong or lanceolate, very pale when dry, nerves slender ; petiole } in. Male panic : 
almost thread-like; flowers pedicelled, j in. diam. Fruiting panicles with wer 
branches. Drupe $ in. long, bright red, very shortly stoutly pedicelled, quite smoot d 
tip rounded.—Opilia manillana and Cumingiana of Baillon (Adansonia, Hl ) 
are very closely allied plants. 
Order CXXXIV. BALANOPHOREÆ. 
Low fleshy leafless or scaly brown, reddish or yellow root-parasites, 
without stomates. Flowers ‘monecious or diœcious, small or minute, 
crowded on spadix-like peduncled heads or cones; peduncles very stout, 
simple, annual or arising from an amorphous tuberous or æ branching 
annual or perennial rootstock. Marx rr. Perianth 0, or of 3-8-valvate 
lobes. Stamens 1-2 in the naked flowers; in the flowers with a pernan 
as many as its lobes and opposite them or more, filaments 0, or fleshy, free 
or connate ina column or tube; anthers free or connate, 2-many-ce “th 
opening by pores or valves, or bursting irregularly. FEM. FL. Periüne 
0, or confluent with the ovary; limb 0, or minutely toothed. Ovary l-o- 
celled ; styles 1-2 or 0, stigmas simple or capitellate, rarely pulvinate ri 
sessile; ovule 1 in each cell, usually pendulous from the top, anatropous o 
atropous, naked or with a single integument, or reduced to an embryo- 
sac. Fruit minute, crustaceous or coriaceous, l-seeded. Seed usua nd 
adherent to the pericarp, testa very thin or 0 rarely thick, albumen dew y 
granular and oily, rarely floury; embryo most minute, undivided. 
Genera 14; species about 40, tropical or subtropical. | 
TRIBE. Eubalanophore:e. Perianth of male 
fl. 3-6-lobed, of female 0. Stamens connate in a 
column. Style 1. . 1, BALANOPHOBA 
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