322 CIV. OROBANCHACEX. (J. D. Hooker) [Christisonia. 
upper anthers 1-celled simple, lower with a greatly thickened connective 
produced behind into a terete appendage rounded at the tip. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, in low valleys, and Knasta Mrs., alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H. 
' T. . 
Whole plant 3-4 in. high. Stem very stout, covered with brown scales X in. long 
with ragged edges. Flowers sessile. Calyx 1in., pale violet with red-brown lobes. 
Corolla 2-23 in. long, inclined; tube white, inflated, throat contracted ; limb ; in. 
diam., pale violet. Stamens included, glabrous; connective of lower anthers white, 
much longer than the purple cell. Ovary 1-celled ; placentas 2-partite, the divisions 
cordate in section, covered all over with ovules; larger stigmatic lobe orbicular.— 
Described from a drawing made my me in Sikkim. 
4. ©. Lawii, Wight Ic. t. 1427; quite glabrous except the corolla, 
rootstock short tuberous lobed, stems short, scales imbricate, pedicels very 
short ebracteolate, calyx-lobes acute, corolla pale purple with yellow spots 
pubescent without and within, anthers acutely spurred, ovary 1-celled, 
placentas 2-fid. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 202. Campbellia Lawii, Benth. in 
Gen. Pl. ii. 967. 
The Coxcaw ; Tanna, Law, Ritchie; Salsette and between Ram Ghat and Belgaum, 
Dalz. & Gibs. i1 
Stems 1-3 in., very stout, thickened upwards, clothed with scales. Calyx z e 
tubular, dark brown. Corolla 2 in., tubular; tube dull white limb blueish-purp i 
yellow within; upper lobes erect, lower horizontal shorter. Filaments with RAN 
crisped pubescence, white; anthers pale, posterior cells all fertile, apex subulate 
with a pore; anterior cell snbulate, like an inverted comma. Stigma of 2 VA 
tate lobes.— Description chiefly from notes by Dr. Ritchie, who remarks that P 
‘figures of the capsule and stigma given by Wight are erroneous, the placenta though 
approaching being quite free with revolute lobes. 
5. C. calcarata, Wight Ic. t. 1426; glabrous except the corolla, stem 
elongate, scales ovate obtuse, flowers racemose long-pedicelled ebracteola M 
calyx-lobes subacute, corolla blueish-white, tube hairy, anthers 2-celled, on 
cell barren spurred. C. Stocksii, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 836; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Ft. 202. 
The Concan ; Tanna and Salsette, Law, Da!zell, &c., parasitic on the roots of 
Strobilanthes. 
Probably a more fully developed state of C. Lawii. 
6. C. bicolor, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. viii. 159 ; hairy, stem 
very short, scales ovate acute or subacute, flowers racemose, pedicels long d 
short 2-bracteolate at the base, calyx-teeth acute, corolla funnel-shapo 
pale rose or yellow. Thwaites Enum. 222, C. pallida, Garda. l. c. 100. 
Christisonia aurantiaca, Wight Ic. t. 1486. 
NILGHERRY HILLS; at Neddawattum, Wight, &c. CEYLON; Central Province, 
alt. 3-4000 ft., Gardner, &c. . a 
Stem red-brown, scaly, continuous with a cylindric warted rhizoma as thick asi 
crow-quill and several inches long. Scales 1 in. long, red-brown. Pedicels 3 "d 
Calyx orange-brown, about 1 in., terete. Corolla 14-2 in.; tube pale straw colour’) 
in Wight’s and Thwaites drawings, limb the same or white. Stamens include’ 
filaments pubescent; anthers with the barren cell acutely spurred. Placentas ve 
Wight’s figure (of aurantiaca) 2-partite, nearly meeting in the centre, with fers 
opposed faces not ovuliferous.—Thwaites’ B. pallidiflora (C. pallida, Gardn.) difte 
according to his drawing only in the paler corolla-lobes. 
.7. C. neilgherrica, Gard». in Cale, Journ. Nat. Hist. viii. 1573 
quite glabrous except sometimes the corolla, stem short very stout, sca 
