OF BALANOPHOREÆ. 47 
stem, the wood forming a zone of wedges round a central pith (Tab. VIII. fig. 11) enclosed 
by a cellular zone that communicates with the pith by broad medullary rays: the total 
absence of pith in the root, with whose wood these bundles communicate, would thus seem 
to indicate that the wood of the rhizome belongs to itself, though it has all the appear- 
ance of being solely produced by the root; the root, in short, supplies the nutriment from 
its own vascular tissue, but the parasite organizes it. 
7. BALANOPHORA ALUTACEA, Junghuhn in Nov. Act. Acad. Cæs. Nat. Cur. xviii. Suppl. 
205; Goeppert, ibid. p. 230. t.3. An B. abbreviata, Blume, En. Pl. Jav. i. 87? 
Hab. Sylvis tropicis Javæ (Junghuhn). Ins. Philippinis (Cuming). Fl. Aprili. 
A very much smaller species than any of the preceding, according to Junghuhn's 
description and plate, but probably, like its congeners, extremely variable in size. Its 
prominent characters are the tuberous rhizome, like that of B. dioica and B. involucrata; 
-its few, short, broad, subvaginate scales in the peduncle, and its cylindrical capitula with a 
few male flowers at the base, in which character it resembles B. fungosa and certain states 
of B. involucrata. 
8. BALANOPHORA (POLYPLETHIA) POLYANDRA, Griff. in Linn. Soc. Trans. xx. p. 94. t. 7. 
Hab. Sylvis subtropicis Mont. Khasiæ (Griffith) et Himalayæ provincia Sikkim, alt. 4-6000 ped. (J. D. H.). 
Fl. August.-Novemb. (v.v.) : 
This species is very abundant in the localities enumerated above, and varies in height 
(from 2 to 6 inches), in robustness, in colour, and in the form of the capitula, which are 
however always short and subeylindrie or conical. I have frequently not been able to 
distinguish female specimens of this from those of B. dioica, nor indeed, except by the 
alternate scales, from those of B. involucrata. The numerous anthers of the male flower 
and usually larger perianth of that sex distinguish it from its congeners. 
I have made many detailed analyses of the anatomy of this species at all stages of - 
growth (except the germinating), both in the Khasia Mountains and Himalaya, but do 
not find any point of importance except the anthers in which it differs from B. dioica, 
fungosa and involucrata. The male flowers are well figured and described by Griffith.” 
VII. LormornyTUM, Schott & Endl. 
In habit this genus approaches to Cynomorium more nearly than to any other of 
the Order, as may be seen by comparing their very young states; in each the upper 
part of the rhizome is clothed with spirally arranged imbricating scales, which pass into 
the bracteal scales of the inflorescence. In both the flowers are aggregated into definite 
masses, which masses are immediately covered by the dependent portion of the peltate 
bracteal scales; but whereas in Cynomorium any further tendency to a branched inflores- _ 
cence is arrested at a very early stage, in Lophophytum the development of the branches 
proceeds with that of the whole plant. The paleæ observed by Weddell amongst the 
female flowers of L. mirabile are a further point of resemblance, as are the irregular dis- 
position of the vascular bundles in the rhizome and great abundance of starch-granules 
in the parenchyma. 
