90 OROBANCHACE^ 



Bonnaya vcronicaefolia Spreng. ; F.B.I, iv 285, XXVl 

 3. Stem weak often rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves 

 oblanceolate-oblong or elliptic, M to I J^ in. by J^ to Yz 

 in., entire or with distant serrations. Flowers in terminal 

 racemes J^ in., purplish, erect. Pods J^ to 54 in. by I 

 in. t. 446. 



On both plateaus at 6,500 ft. : Kotagiri, Coonoor, Vilpatti 

 and below. Fyson. Bourne 149. Sedgwick 1441. 



STRIGA. 

 Striga lutca Lour. Vol. I p. 303- t. 447. 



OROBANCHACE/E. 



Herbs of a brown, purplish, or white colour, never 



green, parasitic on the roots of other plants. Stem 



simple, erect, bearing scales instead of leaves, and a 



terminal spike of flowers each in the axil of a scale. 



Flowers much as in the SCROPHULARIACE/E, but the 



ovary though of two carpels without partition. Seeds 



numerous. 



Twelve genera with about 130 species. 



In England species of orobanche Broomrape, and lath- 

 RAEA tooth worts occur. 



CHRISTISONIA. 



Fleshy herbs, as described above. Calyx tubular. 

 Corolla not two lipped, the lobes equal broad and 

 spreading. Anthers cells unequal, one spurred and 

 empty. 



Christisonia tubulosa Benth. ; F.B.I, iv 321, II i. 

 Stem tall quite glabrous, 6 to 8 inches. Flowers Yl inch 

 or so apart, racemed, I inch long. t. 448. 



Pulneys : Kodaikanal and below. 



Gen, Dist. Coorg to Tinnevelly hills. 



