46 DR. J. D. HOOKER ON THE GENERA AND SPECIES 
4. item INDICA, Wall. Cat. 7247; Weddell in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3. xiv. p. 167. 1 
1.9. f. 11-22. 3 : 1 
Cynomorium, Herb. Wight. e 
Langsdorfia Indica, Arnott in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 205, 206, et in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 36. 
Hab. In montibus Peninsulæ Indiæ orientalis (Wight, Gardner) et Ceyloniæ (Gardner, Thwaites). 
This much resembles a large state of B. globosa, differing chiefly in the longer peduncles f 
of the female capitula, which also have many more scales. 
9. BALANOPHORA GLOBOSA, Junghuhn, Nov. Act. Acad. Cæs. Nat. Cur. xviii. Suppl. p. 210.t.2. 1 
Bal. gigantea, Wall. Cat. 7249, nov. gen. Sarcocordylis (fid. Bennett in Linn. Soc. Trans. xx. p- 94, in note). 1 
Hab. Sylvis montosis Javæ alt. 3-5000 ped. (Junghuhn, Lobb). Birma (Wallich). Fl. April. : 
Junghuhn makes a very curious observation, that when growing with B. elongata (on | 
the same root) he found this species to have the lobed pustules on -its rhizome which 
distinguish that species, but not when it was solitary. E 
According to Wallich, this species is sold for medicinal purposes in the bazars of Burma. : 
E 
6. BALANOPHORA FUNGOSA, Forster, Gen. t. 50; Richard, Elem. de Bot. (1833) t. xv. 1 
(Tag. VIII.) | 
Cynomorium australe, Willd. Sp. PL v. 177. 
Hab. Insulå Tanna Novæ Hebrides ad radices Paritii tiliacei (Forster, Hinds) : ad * Goold Island” in Sinu 
Rockingham, orå orientali Novæ Hollandiæ, fruticetis densissimis (M*Gillivray). Fl. Mai. 
All the specimens of this plant which I have examined have bisexual capitula with the 
female flowers at the base. The surface of the rhizome is minutely granular, and not 
pustular; the peduncles short, stout and leafy. The male flowers have 4—5-lobed peri- 
anths, the lobes grooved inside from pressure against the anther-lobes in the bud. | 
I am not aware upon what plant the Australian specimens were found, but the root is 
very woody, as thick as a crow-quill, and consists of wood and bark with no pith, but 
obscure medullary rays. The wood-fibres are slender and intermixed with large cylin- 
drical ducts and long hexagonal cells whose walls are marked with numerous short 
transverse bars. The vascular bundles in the rhizome are large and stout, branch in 
the usual manner from the root radiating outwards to the lobes of the rhizome, and 
consist (as in B. involucrata) of a thick cylinder of soft colourless parenchyma distin- 
guished from that surrounding it by the absence of chlorophyll or wax, and in this 
respect resembling the bark of the root; its cells are also smaller than the other cells of 
the rhizome, and have rather more numerous punctuations on their walls. The individual 
wood-bundles form a more or less complete zone of wedges, separated by masses of the 
surrounding parenchyma, which also forms a broad cylinder of pith in the interior. The 
wood-wedges are traversed by large ducts, quite similar to those of the root ; these are 
most abundant near the root, and become smaller and inconspicuous at a distance from 
> and A the extremity of the bundles are found as elongated hexagonal cells with 
