132 CXI. CYTINACEEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). | Zydnora. 
the perianth-tube, transversely divided into numerous cells. Ovary 
inferior, 1-celled, with many placentas pendulous from the top of the 
cell and ovuliferous all over; stigmas cushion-shaped, 3-5-lobed and 
bearing numerous radiating lamelle; ovules with a single integument. 
Fruit subglobose, filled with glutinous pulp. Seeds globose, free in 
the pulp; endosperm copious, horny ; perisperm formed of a single layer 
of cells; embryo with a long suspensor dilated at the apex.—Parasitic 
fungus-like plants with a fleshy warted subterranean rhizome. Flowers 
large, arising singly from the rhizome, with an unpleasant odour. 
Species 8, two of them in South Africa. 
Flowers 3- (rarely 4-) merous. Rhizome 4—5-angled, 
warted on the angles. 
Perianth-lobes much longer than the short broad 
tube . : : : : 5 é . IL. H. ethiopica. 
Perianth-lobes as long as the long narrow tabe . 2. H, longicollis. 
Flowers always 4-merous. Rhizome cylindrical, warted 
all over. 
Perianth-lobes narrowed towards the base. . 38. H. Hanningtoni. 
Perianth-lobes lanceolate. 
Perianth-lobes bearded at the margins . : . A, . abyssinica, 
Perianth-lobes naked atthe margins. : . 5. HH. bogosensis. 
Flowers 5-merous : : 5 4 : 4. H. abyssinica, var. 
quinquefida, 
1. Hi. ethiopica, Decne in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xx. (1873), 77. 
Perianth about 2 in. long, tubular; tube 9 lin. long, verrucose outside, 
transversely rugose within; lobes 3, oblong, rather obtuse, inflexed, 
with linear acute scales on the margin only, inflexed part slender and 
smooth or obscurely papillose. Ovary nearly hemispherical, verrucose. 
Fruit as large as the fist, globose-turbinate, tessellate, not tuberculate, 
concave and surrounded by a slender ring at the apex.—Solms-Laub. 
in Engl. Pflanzenr. Hydnoracee, 6. 
Nile Land. Ethiopia, Sabatier. 
2. Hi. longicollis, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. t. 21. Para- 
sitic on the roots of Zygophyllum orbiculatum, Welw., and on a succulent 
Luphorbia. Rhizome 5-7-angled, 3 to 2 in. in diam. towards the base, 
bearing a row of tubercles along each angle, fleshy, rose-colour or 
purple outside, pale brick-red inside. Perianth tubular, 3-8 in. long, 
1 in. in diam, dusky cinnamon outside, orange-red tending to brick- 
red inside ; lobes 3, rarely 4, valvate, generally much shorter than the 
tube, thick, triquetrous above, shortly and obtusely acuminate, irregu- 
larly areolate outside, densely covered with inwardly directed scales on 
the thick sides, concave inside in the lower part. Andrecium 38- 
{rarely 4-) lobed, inserted opposite to the lobes and 3-1 in. up the 
tube; anthers yellow, spuriously 2-celled. Ovary oblong, 14 in. long, 
9 lin. wide; stigma shortly 3- (rarely 4-) lobed. Fruit globose, about 
2 in. in diam., irregularly areolate outside, 1-celled. Seeds numerous 
