46 DR. J- D. HOOKER ON THE GENERA AND SPECIES 



4. BALAXOPnoRA Indica, Wall. Cat. 7247 ; Weddell in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. p. 167. 



t. 9. f. 11-22. 



Cynomoriuiii, Herb. Wiglit. 



Langsdorffia Iiulka, Arnott in Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 205, 206, et in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 36. 



Hab. In montibus Peninsulte Indioe orientalis {Wight, Gardner) et Ceyloniae {Gardner, Thwaites). 



Thi.s much resembles a large state of B. globosa, differing chiefly in the longer peduncles 

 of the female capitiila, which also have many more scales. 



5. B.^iANornoBA globosa, Junghuhn, Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Nat. Cm-.xviii. Snppl.p. 210.t. 2. 

 Bal. giyantea, Wall. Cat. 7249, nov. s;en. SarcocordyUs (fid. Bennett in Linn. Soc. Trans, xx. p. 94, in note). 

 Hab. Sylvis montosis Javoe alt. 3-5000 ped. {Junghuhn, Lobb). Birma {fVallich). Fl. April. 



Junghuhn makes a very curious observation, that when growing with B. elotujuta (on 

 the same root) he found this species to have the lobed pustules on its rhizome which 

 distinguish that species, but not when it was solitary. 



According to Wallich, this species is sold for medicinal purposes in the bazars of Burma. 



G. Balanophora fungosa, Porster, Gen. t, 50; Richard, Elem. de Bot. (1833) t. xv. 

 (Tab. VIII.) 



Cynomormm austro/e. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 177- 



Hub. Insula Tanna Novte Hebrides ad radices Paritii tiliacei {Forster, Hinds) : ad " Goold Island" in Sinu 

 Rockingham, ora orientali Novae Hollandiae, fruticetis densissimis {M'Gillivray), Fl. Mai. 



AU the specimens of this plant which I have examined have bisexual capitula with the 

 female flowers at the base. The surface of the rhizome is minutely granular, and not 

 pustular ; the pediincles short, stout and leafy. The male flowers have 4-5-lobcd peri- 

 antlis, the lobes gi-ooved inside from pressure against the anther-lobes in the bud. 



I am not aware \;pon what plant the Australian specimens were found, but the root is 

 vei-y woody, as thick as a crow-quill, and consists of wood and bark with no pith, but 

 obscure medullary rays. The wood-filjres are slender and intermixed with large cylin- 

 ch-ical ducts and long hexagonal cells whose walls are marked with numerous short 

 transverse bars. The vascular bundles in the rhizome are large and stout, branch in 

 the usual manner from the root radiating ovitwards to the lobes of the rhizome, and 

 consist (as in B. iiwolucrata) of a thick cylinder of soft colomdess parenchyma distin- 

 guished from that surrounding it by the absence of chlorophyll or wax, and in this 

 respect resembling the bark of the root ; its cells are also smaller than the other cells of 

 the rhizome, and have rather more numerous punctuations on their walls. The individual 

 wood-bundles form a more or less complete zone of wedges, separated by masses of the 

 surrounding parenchyma, which also forms a broad cylinder of pith in the interior. The 

 wood- wedges are traversed by large ducts, quite similar to those of the root ; these are 

 most aljundant near the root, and become smaller and inconspicuous at a distance from 

 it, and towards the extremity of the bundles are found as elongated hexagonal cells with 

 barred walls. 



The most curiovis point in the above is the tendency of the tissues forming each vas- 

 cular bundle in the rhizome to arrange themselves rudely into the form of an exogenoiis 



