238 /— OXXXIV. BALANOPHOREJ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Balanophora, 
eduncle scattered, heads obovoid or subglobose usually 1-sexual. Weddel 
Da Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 9, xiv. 167, t. 9, £. 11-22; Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xxii. 30 and 46; Kichler in DC. Prodr. xvii. 145 ; Fawcett in Journ. Tin 
Soc. ined. B. picta, Miquel, Pl. Hohen. 1272. B. gigantea, Wall. Qat. 
7249. B. typhina, Wall. Cat. 7248/3. B. elongata in part, Hook. f 
Langsdorffia indica, Arn. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 205,906, and in Ann. Nat. Hist. 
ii. 36. - 
DECCAN PENINSULA ; Nilghiri Mts., Wight. CEYLON, Thwaites, &c. — E 
Rootstock very variable in size, often very large. Peduncles 3-12 in. high 
stout (sometimes 1 in. diam.) or slender, and heads rosy, pale red brown or PEE Miri 
Flowers usually diwcious. Perianth 4—6-lobed.— Eichler has referred the 1 om 
specimen which I had assumed to be B. elongata to a var. (B. minor) of ni d (es: 
on account of its having only as many anther-cells as perianth-lobes, whilst B. et 2 
gata has more (the number is not given for either species), and the anthora openi g 
by longitudinal slits. Mr. Fawcett informs me that B. gigantea may differ | d of 
B. indica in the rootstock being tessellate rather than warted, and devoi 
pustules. . - 
4. B. Thwaitesii, Kichler in DC. Prodr. xvii. 146; rootstock spal, 
peduncle a foot high clothed with oblong scales 1-2 in. long, scales 1m + 
cate oblong lacerate, male head ovoid. Fawcett in Journ. Linn, Soc. 1ned. 
B. indica, Thwaites, mss. 
CEYLON; Thwaites. ites, and 
Known only from a drawing in the Kew collection sent by Dr. Thwaites, - jes 
which represents either a gigantic male specimen of B. indica or a different PO the 
The whole plant is of a dirty-yellow colour, the perianth nearly } in. diam., an 
oblong head of anthers 3 in. long. 
*** Scales of peduncle imbricate.’ Anther-cells 20-60. 
5. B. polyandra, Griff. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 94, t. 7 ; rootstock 
tuberous lobed, male heads cylindric, female ovoid or oblong. Hook. fit 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 30 and 47 ; Fawcett in Journ, Linn. Soc. ined. 
typhina, Wall. Cat. 7248 A, B. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; on roots of-trees, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H. Kuasta Mts. 
Wallich, Griffith, &c. . . 
General habit, colour and female flowers of B. involucrata, differing in the many 
celled head of anthers; the male flowers are the largest of the genus. 
?. RHOPALOCNEMIS, Jungh. 
A very stout glabrous dicecious fleshy herb, with a large tuberous 
warted lobed rootstock. Peduncles many, very stout, bursting throug 
the rootstock, which forms a warted coriaceous irregularly lobed tube ronm 
their base. Heads cylindric ; flowers at first concealed under hexagon. 
connate peltate bracts, intermixed with dense masses of filiform cellular rate 
cesses (bracteoles or imperfect flowers). Marx rr. Perianth campan? at 
or funnel-shaped adnate below to the base of the staminal column ; shore 
entire. Stamens 3; filaments connate in a long exserted column ; ant nth 
connate, 2-4.celled, irregularly bursting at the top. Fem. FL. Per very 
confluent with the walls of the ovary, ellipsoid, compressed; limb bh - 
short, 2-lipped; styles 2, slender; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit pti 
ovate-oblong, turgid. Seed filling the cavity of the pericarp, consis a 
“of a very large horny embryo covered with a unicellular layer of en 
sperm,” Hoffmeister. 
