Cuseuta europea, 
Greater Dodder, 
CoNVOLVULACES. 
Habe Liv eke 
Himalaya, 
5-12,000 ft. 
- Kashmir. 
Cuscuta planiflora, 
CoNVOLVULACEA, 
Robs env t 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Lathreea squamosa, 
or squamaria, 
Common Toothwort, 
SCROPHULARIACES. 
F. B; I. iv. 318. 
Himalaya, 
6-9,000 ft. 
Baghi Forest 
(Collett), — 
Hattu. 
AEginetia 
pedunculata, 
OROBANCHACES. 
BH bk tv; ons 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
’ Murree. 
Cistanche or 
Phelipza tubulosa, 
OROBANCHACER. 
By Bebe i394. 
The Plains. 
Lahore (Thomson). 
Plants of the Punjab. 647 
LEAFLESS PLANTS, 
Heres. 
PETALS UNITED. 
like the last species, but styles shorter than the stigmas. y 
very like the last species, but styles short, stigmas 
longer, corolla tube much longer than the calyx. 
perennial, pale pink, leafiess, parasitic on the roots 
of trees, stems creeping underground, fleshy, covered 
with short thick scales, much branched, branches erect, 
aerial, 4-12 in. with a few thin scales bearing terminal 
racemes of flowers ; flowers 3 in., creamy white tipped with 
pink purple, many in bracteate racemes, lengthening and 
straightening as they open, calyx 2-lipped, 4-lobed, tubular, 
hairy, corolla 2-lipped, upper lip entire, lower 3-lobed, 
~both lips almost erect, stamens 4, in unequal pairs, noar 
the top of the tube, anthers slightly touching, hairy ; 
capsule ovoid, 2-valved. Thescales have small cavities 
lined with glands like those of insectivorons plants, remains 
of insects are found in these cavities, the proteid matter 
possibly absorbed by the glands. 
annual, leafless, parasitic on the roots of grasses, small, 
3-6 in. high, red or yellow, stem very short, + in. thick, 
‘ creeping underground, secapesshort, stout, very fleshy ; 
flowers 14-21 in. long, yellow with blue, on long slender 
stalks 1-4 in., at the base bracts 4-1 in., ovate, blunt, calyx 
spoon-shaped, split down the front, fleshy, corolla tube 
broad, uncurved, 2-lipped, lobes 5, broad, 2-upper united, | 
stamens 4, unequal, style long, tip curved, stigma 2-lobed ; 
capsule ovoid, 2-valved. 
annual, large, leafless, smooth or velvety, parasitic, 
“stem 12-60 by 3-3in., unbranched, scaly, scales 4-1 in, 
lanceolate ; flowers 1-1? in., yellow, in crowded spikes 
6-10 by 1-3 in., bracts 3-3 in., lanceolate, longer than the 
calyx, bracteoles linear, narrower and shorter, calyx 3-32 in,, 
broadly tubular-bell-shaped, lobes 5, nearly equal, blunt, | 
