Balanophora.] cxxxiv. BALANOPHORER. (J. D. Hooker.) 237 
TRIBE. Helosidere. Perianth of male entire 
or 3-lobed ; of female confluent with the ovary, limb i 
2-lipped. Styles 2. 2. RHOPALOCNEMIS. 
1. BALANOPHORA, Forst. 
Glabrous fleshy herbs, with a tuberous rootstock warted with lenticels 
abounding in a waxy secretion. Peduncles bursting through the rootstock, 
which forms an irregularly toothed or lobed ring or short sheath at its base. 
Flowers minute, intermixed with clavate cellular bodies (bracteoles), 
monocious or dicecious. MALE FL. Perianth of 2-6 valvate lobes.: Stamens 
2- œ, filaments 0, or connate in a solid column; anthers free or connate. 
Frw.rL. Perianth0. Ovary ellipsoid, compressed, 1-celled, narrowed into a 
slender style, stigma terminal; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit minute, crus- 
taceous. Seed globose, adhering to the pericarp, albumen oily; embryo 
subglobose, of 9-3-«ells.— Species about 12, Eastern Asiatic, Australian 
and Polynesian. 
hi * Scales of the peduncle forming an involucre. Anthers as the perianth- 
obes, 
. 1. B. involucrata, Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 30 and 44, 
t. 4-7; involùcre of 2—4 scales connate to the middle, heads ovoid or 
globose. Kichler in DC. Prodr. xvii. 144. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, on the roots of various trees; Simla, alt, 6000 ft., 
Thomson; Sikkim, alt. 7-10,000 ft., J. D. H. . 
Rootstock tuberous, lobed, 3—4 in. diam. Peduncles stout or slender, 1-6 in. 
long, cylindric or compressed, rarely fascicled, involucred about the middle, Male fl. 
with the tube of the perianth sunk in cavities of the heads, usually 3-merous. 
Anthers transversely oblong, bursting by transverse apical slits. Fem. jl, sometimes 
clustered round a clavate bracteole.—In Sikkim I distinguished four forms of this. 
a. rubra; peduncles and ovoid 2-sexual heads red. 
B. flava; peduncles and usually unisexual heads yellow. 
Y. gracilis; peduncles long and slender, and small unisexual heads yellow. 
ò. Catheartii 3 peduncles stout and (unisexual) heads white or yellow. 
» Scales of the peduncle scattered or imbricate. Anthers as many as 
the perianth-lobes. 
..9. B. dioica, Brown in Wall. Cat. 7246, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
Xin. 227, in note; rootstock tuberous lobed or branched, scales of peduncle 
imbricate, heads cylindric usually l-sexual. Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
Xxn. 30 and 45 ; Bichler in DC. Prodr. xvii. 145; Royle Ill. 330, t. 99 (78) a. 
- elongata, Scholt. & Endl. Melet. xiii. in part (not of Blume); Fawcett 
m Journ. Linn. Soc. ined. B. Burmanniana, affinis, alveolata & picta, 
Griff. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 93, 94, t. 3-6. 
TROFICAL and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; on roots of various trees, from Nepal 
Micheal, alt. 3-7000 ft., abundant. Kuasta Mrs, alt. 4-6000 ft. Burma, 
Rootstock a few inches to a foot in diameter, Peduncles 1-12 in., stout; scales 
laxly or densely imbricate, and heads white brown yellow or blood-red. Heads 1-3 in. 
long, cylindric ovoid or conoidal, females with sometimes a few male flowers at the 
ase, Perianth-lobes 3-6. Staminal column short or long; anthers bursting by 
curved slits.—A very variable plant. . 
3. B. indica, Wail. Cat. 7247; rootstock tuberous lobed, scales o 
