Eubrachion ' LORANTHACEiE 103 



Swartzl near Cinchona, 5000 ft., J.P. 663, Uartl Fawcettl Newhavon 

 Gap, 5400 ft., Harris 1 Fl, Jam. 6220, 6389, 9877, 10,025. Growing on 

 Calyptrantlies, Eugenia fragrans and E, biflora. 



Shrub 2-4 dm. high. Scales persistent, 2 mm. 1. with a circular area 

 just below the middle, 1 mm. 1. & br. Spikes generally crowded at apex 

 of branches, 3-7 mm. 1. Bracts 1-2-1 '4 mm. I. Petals, male -8-1 mm. 1. ; 

 female -5- "6 mm. 1. 



Family XII. BALANOPHORACE^. 



Fleshy herbs, parasitic on roots, generally of trees, without 

 chlorophyll. Rhizomes tuberous,, giving rise to peduncles covered 

 with scaled and enlarged above to form spadices, which are some- 

 times covered with deciduous bracts. Flowers unisexual, very 

 densely crowded on unisexual or androgynous spadices, small, or 

 the female especially minute and forming a continuous layer, mixed 

 often with densely crowded jointed hairs; the male generally much 

 larger. Male flowers usually with a 3-8-lobed perianth of which 

 the lobes are valvate. Stamens opposite to perianth-lobes ; fila- 

 ments free or connate. Anthers free or connate, 2-celled, or 

 each cell again divided into two or many cells, each cell dehiscing 

 by .pores or chinks, or irregularly ruptured ; pollen globose- 

 trigonal. Female flower : perianth none, or 2-li^ped or tubular, 

 epigynous. Ovary 1-3-ceUed ; styles terminal. Ovules solitary 

 in the cells, pendulous, usually without integument. Fruit of 

 same shape as ovary but a little larger, a 1 -celled, 1 -seeded nut. 

 Seed with endosperm ; embryo microscopic. 



Species about 40, occuring generally in damp primeval forests 

 of mountainous places in the tropics, a few South African, one 

 Mediterranean, another in New Zealand. 



SCYBALIUM Schott & Endl. . 



Fungusdike fleshy "blood-red-coloured plants parasitic on 

 roots of dicotyledonous trees. Rhizome tuberous. Peduncles, 

 coA'ered with imbricated scales, enlarged above, forming spadices 

 covered with subpeltate bracts, which are at first imbricate, 

 soon deciduous. Spadices unisexual or androgynous. Receptacle 

 covered with a compact layer of club-shaped scales among which 

 are the flowers. Flowers, monoecious or dioecious. Male flowers : 

 tube of the perianth cylindrical, lobes 3, ovate, concave. 

 Stamens 3, filaments connate into a tube with apices free ; 

 anthers opposite to the lobes of the perianth, connate, each of 

 the two cells divided into 2 or 4, .dehiscing by rupture at the 

 apices. Female flowers : perianth wanting. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 styles 2, long, filiform, deciduous, stigmas capitellate ; ovules 2, 

 pendulous from the apex .of the central placenta, anatropous. 



