302 XC. SCROniULAMACE.T:. 



gaon, on Railway line, lihiva ! S. M. Country : Belgaum, Kanitkar\ — Distiub. India 

 (Western and Central Himalaya, Central India, W. jPeniusula) ; Madagascar, Tropical 

 Africa. 



21. STRIGA, Lour. 



Herbs usually scabrid, discolored or black when diy. Leaves : the 

 lower opposite, the upper alternate, linear, entire, rarely toothed, some- 

 times reduced to scales. Plowers axillary, or the upper in bracteate 

 spikes ; bracteoles usually 2. Calyx tubular, 4- or 5- or 10- or lo-ribbed, 

 5 (rarely 4) -toothed or -tid. Corolla 2-lipped; tube slender, abruptly 

 incurved at or above the middle; limb spreading, the upper lip inner in 

 bud, usually short, notched or 2-fid, the lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 didynaraous, included ; anthers 1-celled, vertical, dorsifixed, bases obtuse, 

 the connective sometimes mucronate. Capsule subglobose or oblong, 

 loculicidal ; valves entire, septiferous, sepaiating from the placentas. 

 Seeds numerous, ovoid or oblong, usually reticulated. — Disteib. Warmer 

 regions of Asia, Africa, and Australia ; species about 30. 



Calj'X 4-5-ribbed, 1 rib running to the apex of each calyx- 

 tooth. 



Usually parasitic on roots ; whole plant reddish brown ; 



root tuberous ; leaves scale-like ; corolla pink 1. S. orohanchioides, 



Not parasitic ; wliole plant green ; root not tuberous ; 



leaves linear ; corolla white 2. S. densiflora. 



Calyx 10-15-ribbed. 



Eiibs of the calyx most commonly 10; the secondary ribs 



ending at the sinus ; flowers yellow 3. S. luiea. 



Eibs of tile calyx 1.5, the secondary ribs conlinued up 

 the sides of the adjacent calyx-teeth, not ending at the 

 sinus. 



Calyx 3 in. long ; corolla white, the tube exserted 4. S. ciqihnmoides. 



Calyx i^ in. long or more ; corolla yellow, the tube not 



exserted 5. 8. sulphnrca. 



1. Striga orobanchioides, BentJi. in Ilooh. Comp. Bot. Mag. v. 1 

 (1835) p. 301, t. 1!1. A small erect glabrous or puberulous herb 6- 

 12 in. high, parasitic on roots or growing on rocks. Stems many from 

 a tuberous root, simple or branched, dark reddish-purple. Leaves scale- 

 like, ovate-oblong, acute, dark reddish-purple like the stems, passing 

 into floral bracts. Flowers numerous, sessile, erect, in erect usually 

 densely flowered terminal spikes ; floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, a 

 little shorter than the calyx ; bracteoles rather more than | as long .as 

 the calyx, linear-lanceolate, acute, ciliolate. Calyx exceeding \ in. long, 

 5- or 4-ribbed ; teeth 5 or 4, about -3- as long as the tube, narrowly 

 lanceolate, very acute, bristle-tipped. Corolla 2-lipped, pink, with a 

 white spot at the base of each of its lobes ; tube I'eaching | in. long, 

 incurved above the middle, with hairs in the throat ; limb about | in. 

 across, the upper lip deeply divided, the lobes obovatc-oblong, rounded, 

 the lower lip 3-lobed to about g-vAay down, the lobes obtnse. Capsules 

 oblong-ellipsoid, \ in. long, tipped with the base of the style. Seeds 

 oblong, ri(s in. long. El. 13. I. v. 4, p. 299 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 181 ; 

 AVight, Icon. t. 1414; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 108; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 3, p. 255 ; AVocdr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 175. Striga 

 coccinea. Grab. Cat. p. 145 ()Wt of JBenth.). — Flowers : Oct.-Nov. Vekn. 

 Tdmhdi Icari-cha gavat. 



Ko.vKAN : Law \, Stocks \; Dahdl <f- Gibson; Matheran, Woodrow. Deccan : hilly 



