162 OROBAJSCHACEJE. [ iEaiNETiA. 



1. JE, indica, Linn. Sp.Pl. 632 ; Roxb.; Fl. lnd. Hi, 30 ; Boyle III. 292; 

 F. B. I. iv, 320 ; Prain Beng. PL 778 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 311. 



"Whole plant tinged with, purple, turning brown when dry. Bhizome 

 small, tuberous, emitting many short branching coral-like roots. 

 Scapes erect, slender, solitary or several, 6-12 in. high, with usually a 

 fe'.v scales at the base. Flowers solitary on the tup of each naked 

 scape, nodding. Calyx f-l| in. long, closed in bud, pointed, glabrous. 

 Corolla purple ; tube 1-H i n - long, curved, inflated ; limb f-1 in. 

 across ; lobes small, equal, rounded, margins fimbriate. Anthers of 

 lower stamens with thick blunt dorsal spurs. Placentas multifid. 

 Capsule £ in. long, ovoid, beaked, enclosed in the pereistent calyx and 

 corolla. Seeds pale-yellow, testa loose and hyaline. 



Dehra Bun, in shady ravines. Flowers during the rainy season. 

 Distrib. Throughout the greater part of India from the W. Hima- 

 laya in Kumaon up to 3.500 ft., also in Nepal, Assam and on the Khasia 

 Hills and southwards to Travanoore and Ceylon, extending to Burma, 

 China, Japan and the Philippines. 



2. JE. pedunculata, Wall PL As. Bar. in, 13, t. 219; F. B. I. iv, 320 ; 



Prain Beng. PL 778. Orobanche pedunculata, Roxb.; Fl. Ind. Hi, 29. 

 O. acaulis, Roxb.; Fl. Ind. Hi, 29. 



Whole plant red or yellow. Stem very short, buried in the soil. Scape 

 short, stout, very fleshy, many-flowered ; bracts }-% in. long, ovate, 

 obtuse. Calyx H-2£ in. fleshy, red turning to yellowish-white, obtuse, 

 acute or shortly beaked, very mucilaginous. Corolla-tuhe equalling the 

 calyx, yellowish ; limb violet, lobes crenate or erose. Stigma broadly 

 cordiform, peltate. Capsule ovoid. Seeds brown. 



Sub-Himalayan tracts ; Moradabad (T. Thomson), parasitic on roots of 

 the Khas-khas grass (Vetiveria zizanioides). Flowers during the rainy 

 n^ason. Distrib. Throughout the greater part of India from near 

 Marree (W. Himalaya) to Silckim and Assam, and from Bengal (in 

 jhils) to Travancore and Ceylon (on roots of grasses); also in Upper 

 Burma, Malay Peninsula and Islands and Cochin China. 



2. CISTANCHE, Hoffmgg. and Link ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 324. 



Seapigerous herbs, scape or stem simple, scaly. Flowers subsessile, 

 in dense spikes, yellow violet or purple. Calyx 'broadly tubular- 

 campanulate ; lobes 5, sobequal, obtuse. Corolla-tube long, curved, 

 dilated above ; limb spreading, oblique; lobes 5, broad subequal. 

 Stamens 4, subexserted ; anthers subtransverse, often villous ; the 

 cells equal, parallel, bases obtusp. Ovary 1-celled ; placentas 4, 

 equidistaut or in pairs, stigma broad. Capsule ovoid, laterally 

 compressed, 2- valve to the base. Seeds numerous, subglobose, 

 reticulately punctate. — Species 12, Mediterranean region and N. 

 Africa exten !in«j to W. and C. Asia. 



