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of Lophophyta presents an altogether different picture. The brown scales have 
detached themselves from the rachis, first those at the base of cone, then also those 
on the upper parts. They fall off almost simultaneously, and with them the 
envelope which up to that time has concealed the flowers. The erect, fleshy, white, 
or reddish rachis bearing the flowers then becomes visible. The female flowers are 
Fig. 41.—Parasitic Balanophoree. 
1 Lophophytum mirabile, from Brazil. 2 Sarcophyte sanguinea, from the Cape of Good Hope. 
on the lower part, and arranged in spherical, deep yellow or orange-coloured 
capitula which are packed close together; the male flowers are situated above the 
lowermost third of the spadix, and are arranged in looser and less crowded capitula 
of a pale yellow colour. 
However striking the phenomenon presented by these flowering cones of 
Lophophytum mirabile, it is surpassed by another native of Brazilian forests, the 
Lophophytwm Leandri. The colouring of the inflorescence in this species cannot 
