Orobanche. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 29 
_a crown.close to the root. Calya one-leaved, length of the 
tube of the corol, fleshy, simple, opening on one side, or di- 
viding into two unequal portions, on the outside tinged with 
red, on the inside white, Corol with the tube obliquely cla- 
vate-campanulate, smooth in every part; inside yellow; 
throat contracted and triangular; border five-parted, the 
capsule | have not seen yet, the divisions are nearly equal 
and about as long as the tube, margins laciniate, Filaments 
smooth. Anthers a larger, oblong, white gland is attached 
to the base of the inner pair which appears like a second an- 
ther. Germ ovate. Svy/e rather longer than the stamens, 
- curved, smooth. Stigma peltate, very large, somewhat three- 
lobed, glandular, slightly villous. Capsule ovate, one-celled, 
two-valved, with two pair of ramous. Teceptacles, to which 
the numerous, very minute seeds adhere. - 
3. O, pedunculata. Roxb. 
Smooth. Stemsimple. F lowers long-pedicelled. Calyx 
spathiform. Corols tive-parted ; filaments naked. Anthers 
adhering by pairs, one of the pairs with a long fleshy appen- 
dage. Stigma cordate, peltate, — 
A native of Bengal; it appears durian: the rains, growing 
. upon the roots of Andropogon muricatus, » | 
7 Stem short; it may be called the common Sie eof a 
| raceme, which rises only an inch or two above the surface of — 
the earth, clothed with a few tapering fleshy scales or 
leaves. Peduneles as long as the stem, ro und, smooth, erect, 
one-flowered. Bractes no other than the solitary triangular, 
one-flowered scales, or leaves of the stem, Flowers very 
large. Tube yellowish. Border deep, lovely violet. Calyx 
supdroved spathiform, opening by a single longitudinal slit 
on the interior side, fleshy, smooth on both sides, when young 
tinged with red, afterwards of a pale yellowish white, replete 
witha clear clammy liquor. Corol with an inflated, curved, ‘ 
yellow, tube, 283 long as the calyx. Border five-parted ; divi- 
arly ge2 Ze todd ofa sae reniform ae ag the 
