320 civ. OROBAXCHACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [JSginetia. 



* Corolla-lobes all broad, subequal, spreading. 



Calyx spathaceous. Anther-cells unequal ....... 1. 



Calvx tubular. Anther-cells unequal ......... 2. CHBISTISONIA. 



Calyx canipanulate. Anther-cells equal ........ 3. CISTANCHE. 



** Corolla %-llpped. 



Upper lip '2-lobed, lower 3-lobed ........ . . 4. OEOBANCHE. 



Upper lip erect hooded subentire, lower very short ..... 5. BOSCHNIACKIA. 



1. JSGINETIA, Linn. 



Leafless herbs with, branched or simple naked or scaly scapes or stems. 

 Flowers few, large, solitary, 'or corymbose, ebracteolate. Calyx spatha- 

 ceous, split in front nearly to the base. Corolla-tube broad, incurved; limb 

 spreading, obscurely 2-lipped : lobes 5, broad, 2 upper connate. Stamens 

 included ; anthers with one cell perfect adnate to the filament not spurred 

 at the base, the other cell absent in the upper anthers, empty clavate and 

 deflexed in the lower. Ovary 1-celled; placentas large, 2-lobed or nmltifid, 

 fiUing the cavity, ovuliferous all over ; style slender, stigma large peltate. 

 (japsule sub i 2-valved. Seeds crowded, minute, pitted. Species 4-5, tropical 

 Asiatic. 



1. IB. indica,n?o7r~Uo7!. fl. i. 63, t. 91, and Fl. Ind. iii. 30 ; scape 

 very slender naked, corolla purple, placentas multifid. Renter in DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 43; Wall. Cat. 3964; Benth. Scropn. Ind. 55; Wiqkt III. t. 158 b, f. 5, 

 and Ic. t. 895; Dalz. & Gibs.' Bomb. FL 202; Griff. ' Ic. PL Asiat. t. 423. 

 Orobanche ^Eginetia, Linn. Sp. PL 883. 



Throughout INDIA, from the Western Himalaya in Kumaon, ascending to 3500ft., 

 to Nepal, Assam and the Khasia Mts. ; and southwards to Tenasseriin, Travancore 

 and CEYLON. DISTBIB. Burma, China, Japan, Philippine Islands. 



Root of fleshy interlaced fibres. Scapes solitary or several, 6-16 in. high, with a 

 few scales near the base. Flowers solitary. Calyx f to nearly 2 in. long, acute. 

 Corolla 12 in., limb 1 in. diam. or less, margins fimbriate. Anthers of lower stamens 

 with a thick gibbous obtuse spur behind. Capsule as large as a filbert. Seeds 

 yellowish-white, testa hyaline lax. 



2. IE. pedunculata, Wall. PL As. Par. iii. 13, t. 219 ; scape short 

 stout very fleshy many-fld., flowers on long peduncles bracteate at the base, 

 corolla-tube yellow mouth blue, placentas 2 each of 2 plates. Renter in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 43 ; Wiaht III. t. 158 b, f. 6, and Ic. t. 1421. M. abbreviata, 

 Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3965 ; Benth. Scroph. Ind. 95 ; Renter I.e. M. acaulis, 

 Walp. Eep. 481 ; Renter I. c. Orobanche pedunculata, Roxb. Hort. Benct. 

 45. and FL Ind, iii. 29. ( 0. acaulis, Roxb. Cor. PL iii. 89, t. 292, and FL 

 Ind. iii. 29. 



Throughout INDIA, on the roots of grasses, from Murree, Elliott, Sikkim, Clarice, 

 and Assam, to Travancore and Singapore. DISTEIB. Cochin China, Java. 



Whole plant 3-6 in. high, red or yellow. Stem very short, as thick as a swan's 

 quill, buried in the soil, giving off numerous alternate* pedicelled flowers that rise 

 above the surface of the ground, rarely slender and 1-fld. Peduncles 1-4 in., slender 

 to stout, bracteate at the base; bract %-\ in., ovate obtuse. Calyx 1^-2^ in. long, 

 fleshy, red then yellow white, loaded with mucilage, tip obtuse, acute or shortly 

 beaked. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx, yellowish, limb bright violet, lobes 

 crenate and erose. Anthers of lower stamens with a lar^e dorsal fleshy decurved horn. 

 Stigma broadly cordiform, peltate. Capsule ovoid. Seeds brown. Wight's figures 

 represent the placentas as more divided than other analyses show. 



