Orobanche, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 27 
Hursmun the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indigen- 
ous in the forests, flowering about the beginning of the rains. 
The seed ripens in September. 
It is a plant of very slow growth, at least in the Botanic 
garden at Calcutta, between three and four years have only 
given one of a few inches in height. Though in Silhet, they 
are long, weak, scandent, or leaning, with four-sided, villous 
shoots. 
Flowers crowded in the axills, large, drooping, yellow 
and villous, Calyx five-parted ; divisions nearly equal, acu- 
minate ; as the berry advances to maturity, it splits into two; 
one iv dsptiritid the other three parted ; upper lip of the 
corol shorter and slightly emarginate; under broad, three- 
lobed, the middle one much longer. Anthers two-lobed, 
lateral. Germ four-lobed ; lobes ‘one-seeded; attachment | 
sub-superior, Style about as long as the stamma and co- 
rol, Stigma bifid. Berries four, when all come to matu- 
rity, which is common, bright red, of the size of a small pea, 
convex on the outside, angular on the inner, pulp succulent, 
scarlet coloured. Seed single, conform to the berry, covered 
with a single thin white integument. Embryo erect, without 
perisperm. Cotyledons unequal, the inner one large, with a 
concavity in the exterior, lower half, for = Pe toad ae ae 
_ small, oval, lenticular one. satin 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
- OROBANCHE. Schreb. gen. N. 1045. 
Calyx from bifid to four or five-cleft, Corol irregular. 
Stigma two-lobed, Capsules one-celled, two-valved, many- 
seeded. : 
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1. O. indica. Buch. 
_Ramous, hairy. Bractes tern, Calyx sub-unilateral, five. 
cleft. U; pper lip of the corol two-lobed ; the under one 
parted ; anthers ey. two-lobed ; lobes ¢ calearate. 
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