Campbellia.'] Orobanchacece. 265 



on a drawing of a specimen collected by Lear on Hunasgiriya. The 

 varieties are connected with the type by intermediates. Dries black. 

 C. u7iicolor, Thw. (non Gardn.), seems to be this (C. P. 1780). 



5. C. albida, Thw. in Benth. &" Hk.f. Gen. PL ii. 967 (1876). 



C. P. 3929. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 323. 



Scape short, scales ovate, glabrous ; fl. large, crowded, 

 ped. \ in,, with 2 bractlets some distance below fl. ; cal. f in., 

 glabrous, segm. 5, very small, linear ; cor.-tube \\ in. or more, 

 pubescent outside, limb i\ in. diam., lobes broad, truncate. 



Upper montane zone; very rare. Hakgala, 1866 (Thwaites). Fl. 

 Oct.; white. 



Endemic. 



The whole plant is white according to Thwaites's notes. I have 

 not met with it, and have only the C. P. specimens. Bentham referred 

 it to CampbelUa in Gen. PI. (1. c). The ov. is said in Fl. B. Ind. to be 

 completely 2-celled. 



3. CABIPBEXiIiZA,^ Wight. 



Leafless perennial, with short scaly rootstock, fl. small, 

 crowded on short scape, ped. with bractlets ; caL tubular- 

 campanulate, segm. 5, equal ; cor. funnel-shaped, lobes 5, 

 nearly equal ; stam. 4, exserted, anth. distinct, i -celled, 

 opening by a tubular pore at apex, without a spur or other 

 appendage; ov. i -celled, placentas 2, T-shaped, meeting in 

 centre, style long, crooked at summit, stigma ovoid or clavate. 

 — Sp. 3 (.''). The genus is not maintained in the Fl. B. Ind. 



C. cytinoides, Wight, Ic. iv. pt. 3, 6 (1850). 



Christisonia unicolor., Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. viii. 161. 

 Thw. Enum. 427. Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxiii. 241. C. P. 3770. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 322 {Christisonia neilgherrica, in part). Wight, Ic. t. 

 1425. 



Scape very stout, short, thickened upwards, covered with 

 numerous thin imbricated obtuse scales ; fl. rather numerous, 

 densely crowded, on very short ped. with 2 broad bractlets 

 immediately beneath the cal. ; cal. f in., glabrous or 

 puberulous, segm. triangular, subacute, sometimes lacerate ; 

 cor. pubescent outside, lobes broad, rounded ; anth. small, 

 ovoid, apical pore turned downwards ; placentas without 

 ovules on their opposed surfaces. 



* In honour of Dr. W. H. Campbell, first Secretary of the Edinburgh 

 Botanical Society, and his brother, Capt. J. Campbell, of the Madras 

 Establishment. 



