939 CXV. BALANOPHOREZ. 
seed.— Stout succulent leafless root-parasites. Ste — a 2 
tuberous often lobed rhizome, with short thick dne: 
replaced by concave scales.. Flowers in dense thick todo ril 
usually very numerous and closely packed. 
; en small Order, chiefly tropical, a in the New and the Old World. One mon 
ypic genus is found as far north as o Modiariantal py another is in New Ze Abad 
in inthe south. The Australian pec vtri over E. India and the Eastern Archi- 
pelago. 
1. BALANOPHORBA, Forst. 
Male perianth replay usually of 3 or 4 but varying from 2 to 8 
segments. Stamens all united; anthers 4-celled. Female donde 
consisting of a naked ovary, terminating in a single style. Scapes 
bearing alternate or imbricate scales and a dicecious or moncecious 
ike; when aries the males occupying the lower, and the 
un the upper portion 
us comprises eight species, natives of E. India, the (dien oe and the S. 
Paeti Donde the only Australian one is found also in the New Hebrides 
1. B. fungosa, Forst. Char. Gen. 99, t. 50. Rhizome short, thick, 
irregularly hak with a minutely gr ranular surface. Sca capes thick, 
to 4 in. high. Scale-like leaves ovate, obtuse, concave, membranous, 
n. Jong. Female flowers exc edin ly numerous and minute 
obular 
each one on‘a pedicel of 14 5 » lines. up fecero M bos 3 or 4, sprea 
ing or reflexed, oblong, concave, about 1 line long. Anthers rese 
iEn mass, on a short stipe perp of the united filaments.— 
f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii , t. 8; Oynomorium. balanophora, 
Willd. Spec. Pl. iv. 177. 
pe sland. Mrs pre AE * on € e of heo Dallachy ; n eres 
in the same bay, M'Gillivr island, New Hebrides.—l 
myself been able to verify dba. Moard ot ‘the ef rare ben here taken the een ; ; 
chiefly from Hooker's above-quoted Mem 
Order CXVI. CONIFERJZE. 
Flowers monæcious or dicecious, the males in deciduous ana the 
females in cones or solitary, all without an perianth. Male catkins 
a common axis, each stamen consisting of a Haratis more or less 
contracted into a stipes at the base and dilated at the apex; anther- 
cells 2 or more, adnate to the stipes or pendulous from under the scale- 
like apex, opening longitudinally in 2 valves. Female cones consisting 
either of opposite verticillate or spirally arranged imbricate scales, with - 
or more erect or inflexed naked orthotropous or anatropous. ovules 
(erect or recurved pistils according to some theorists) within each 
