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BALANOPHORACE^. 



[Rhizogens. 



wliich the scaly peduncles start up. Junghuns assures us, that his Rhopalocnemis has 

 altoo-ether the appearance of Phallus impudicus, and that it would certamly be taken for 

 a toadstool if it were not for its flowers. The species put on very extraordmary forms, 

 one of which is represented here, and several of which have been given by Junghuns. 

 All are tropical in both worlds, with the exception of one found m Malta. About 

 as many occur m Asia as in America, and several are known from the Cape of Good 



They seem, as far as anything is knoA\Ti of them, to be styptics. The Cynomorium 

 coccmeum, or Fungus mehtensis of the apothecaries, long had a great reputation ui that 

 way ; and various kmds of Helosis have had a similar character. Sarcophyte, a Cape 

 plant', is said to have an atrocious odom\ Poppig says, that Ombrophytum, which m 

 Peru spmigs up suddenly after rain, in the manner of the toadstool, is called Mays del 

 Monte, m consequence of its resemblance to a kind of Maize, and is quite insipid, on 

 which account it is cooked and eaten like Fimgi. 



GENERA. 



Tribe I.— Sarcophj-tidae. 



Sarcophyte, Sparrm. 

 Ichthyosma, Schlecht. 



Tribe II.-Lopbophytidse. 

 Lophophytum, Schott at 

 Endl. 



Archimcdea, Leandr. 

 Ombrophjiium, Popp. 



Tribe III.— CjTiomoridEe. 



Cynomorium, Michel. 

 Mystropetalum, Harv. 



Balanophora, Forst. 

 Phaeocordylis, Ch-iff. 



Tribe IV.-Helosidffi. 



Cynopsole, Endl. 

 Scybalium, Schott et 

 E)idl. 



Helosis, Rich. 



Caldasia, Mut. 



Lathrceophila, Leandr. 

 Langsdorfia, Mart. 



? Thonningia, Schmch. 



? H(vmatostrobtis. Scht. 

 Rhopalocnemis, Jungh. 



Numbers. Gen. 12. Sp. 30. 



Fung ales. 



Position. . Balanophorace^e. — Cytinaceae. 



Mtiscales ? 



