€hristisonia.'\ OrobancJiacecB. 26 



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anth. fleshy, decurved ; style long, subexserted, stigma large, 

 circular ; fruit not seen. 



Forests of montane zone, 3000-6000 ft. ; rather rare. Parasitic on the 

 roots oi Arundinaria and other bamboos. Ramboda ; Naranhena; 

 Hewahette ; Madulkelle; NuwaraEliya; Maskehya (Farmer). Fl. Oct., 

 Nov., and April ; tube and throat of cor. white, lobes deep purple, the 

 lowest one with a yellow blotch. 



Also in the Nilgiri Mountains. 



The name subacaulis is not distinctive; it was bestowed by Bentham, 

 Avho referred the plant to Phelipaaj Gardner simply transferred it to 

 Chrisfisonia, and had never seen a specimen. The species is, perhaps, 

 equally well placed (as by Thwaites) in /Eginetia, and is certainly allied 

 to j^. pedunculata^ thus connecting the two genera. The description in 

 Fl. B. Ind. is incorrect in several points. 



2. C. Thwaitesil, Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxiii. 240 (1885). [Plate 

 LXIX.] 



C. unicolor, Thw. Enum. 222 (non Gardn.). C. neilgherrica, Hk. f. in 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 322, in part (non Gardn.). C. P. 2971. 



Rhizome small, with coral-like roots, scape short, stout, 

 erect, 2-3 in., scales oblong-oval, obtuse, glabrous, scattered ; 

 fl. 3-8, racemose, not crowded, ped. \-\ in., stout, glabrous, 

 without bractlets ; cal. i;^ in., quite closed in the bud (which 

 is beaked), deeply 2-lipped, the lips irregularly or faintly 2- 

 and 3 -toothed, glabrous ; cor, 1 1-2 in., glabrous outside, lobes 

 short, rounded ; stam. half-exserted, fil. glabrous, spurs of 

 lower pair of anth. longer than those of upper pair ; stigma 

 reniform or crescent-shaped ; placentas large, fleshy, meeting 

 in centre ; capsule over \ in., beaked with persistent style. 



Lower montane zone, 3000-4000 ft.; very rare. Palagala above 

 Ramboda (Thwaites). Fl. October ; bright pale yellow. 



Endemic. 



Whole plant coloured like Campbellia.^ but brighter, the flowers paler 

 yellow, but all drying black. I have not met with it living. The 

 Fl. B. Ind. places this under C. 7teilgherrica {i.e., Ca7npbellia),ixoxi\ which 

 it is quite distinct. Its characters bring it under Wight's genus, Oligo- 

 pholis. 



3. C. tricolor, Gardtt. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. viii. 156 (1847). 

 Thw. Enum. 222. C. P. 2889. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 323. 



Rhizome small, with coral-like roots, scapes numerous, 

 3-4 in., scales oblong, obtuse, glabrous, brown ; fl. large, ped. 

 about I in., without bractlets ; cal. i in., glabrous, bluntly 5- 

 angled, segm. 5, lanceolate, very acute, cor.-tube 2\ in., 

 glabrous outside, limb about i in. diam., lobes rather small, 

 the 2 upper connate, margins denticulate ; fil. equal, glabrous, 

 anth.-spurs long, blunt ; placentas covered on all sides with 



