Orobanche. didynamia angiospermia. 27 



ri«rsm?Mi llie vernacul.qr name in Silliet, where it is indigen- 

 ous in tlic lorests, flowering" about the beginning of the rains. 

 The seed ripens in September. 



It is a |)Iant 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. Tliough in Silhet, they 

 are long*, weak, scandent, or leaning, with four-sided, villous 

 shoots. 



J^loirers crowded in the axills, large, drooping-, yellow 

 and villous. Cahjx five-parted; divisions nearly equal, acu- 

 minate ; as the berry advances to maturity, it splits into two ; 

 one two-parted, the other three parted ; npppr lip of the 

 corol shorter and slightly emarginate; under broad, three- 

 lobed, the middle one much longer. Anthers tvvo-lobed, 

 lateral. Germ four-lobed ; lobes one-seeded ; attachment 

 sub-superior. Sti/le about as long as the stamina and co- 

 rol. Stif/ma bifid. Berries four, when all come to matu- 

 rity, Avhich is conunon, 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 the reception of the 

 small, oval, lenticular one. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



OROBANCHE. Schreh. goi. N. 1045. 



Calyx from bifid to four or five-cleft. Corol irregular. 

 Stigma two-lobed. Capsules one-celled, two-valved, many- 

 seeded. 



1. O. indica. Buch. 



Ramous, hairy. Bractes tern. Calyx sub unilateral, five- 

 cleft. Upper lip of the corol two lobed ; the under one three- 

 parted; anthers woolly, two-lobed; lobes calcarate. 



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