322 civ. OROBANCHACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Christisonia. 



upper anthers 1-celled simple, lower with a greatly thickened connective 

 produced behind into a terete appendage rounded at the tip. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, in low valleys, and KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H. 

 .$- T. T. 



Whole plant 3-4 in. high. Stem very stout, covered with brown scales in. long 

 with ragged edges. Flowers sessile. Calyx 1 in., pale violet with red-brown lobes. 

 Corolla 2-2% in. long, inclined ; tube white, inflated, throat contracted; limb f in. 

 diam., pale violet. Stamens included, glabrous; connective of lower anthers white, 

 much longer than the purple cell. Ovary 1-celled ; placentas 2-partite, the divisions 

 cordate in section, covered all over with ovules; larger stiginatic lobe orbicular. 

 Described from a drawing made my me in Sikkim. 



4. C. Xiawii, Wight Ic. t. 1427 ; quite glabrous except the corolla, 

 rootstock short tuberous lobed, stems short, scales imbricate, pedicels very 

 short ebracteolate, calyx-lobes acute, corolla pale purple with yellow spots 

 pubescent without and within, anthers acutely spurred, ovary 1-celled; 

 placentas 2-fid. Dalz. 8f Gibs. JSomb. FL 202. Campbellia Lawii, Benth. in 

 Gen. PI. ii. 967. 



The CONCAN ; Tanna, Law, Ritchie ; Salsette and between Ram Ghat and Belgaum, 

 Dalz. fy Gibs. 



Stems 1-3 in., very stout, thickened upwards, clothed with scales. Calyx J in., 

 tubular, dark brown. Corolla 2 in., tubular; tube dull white limb blueish-purple, 

 yellow within ; upper lobes erect, lower horizontal shorter. Ft laments, with minute 

 crisped pubescence, white ; anthers pale, posterior cells all fertile, apex subulate 

 with a pore; anterior cell subulate, like an inverted comma. Stigma of 2 capi- 

 tate lobes. Description chiefly from notes by Dr. Ritchie, who remarks that the 

 figures of the capsule and stigma given by Wig'ht are erroneous, the placenta though 

 approaching being quite free with reyolute lobes. 



5. C. calcarata, Wight Ic. t. 1426 ; glabrous except the corolla, stem 

 elongate, scales ovate obtuse, flowers racemose loug- pedicel led ebracteolate, 

 calyx-lobes subacute, corolla blueish-white, tube hairy, anthers 2-celled, one 

 cell barren spurred. C. Stocksii, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 836 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 202. 



The CONCAN ; Tanna and Salsette, Law, Dalzell, &c., parasitic on the roots of 

 Strobilantkes . 



Probably a more fully developed state of C. Lawii. 



6. C. bicolor, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. viii. 159 ; hairy, stem 

 very short, scales ovate acute or subacute, flowers racemose, pedicels long or 

 short 2-bracteolate at the base, calyx-teeth acute, corolla funnel-shaped 

 pale rose or yellow. Thwaites Enum. 222. C- pallida, Gardn. I. c. 160. 

 Christisonia aurantiaca, Wight Ic. t. 1486. 



NILGHEBBY HILLS ; at Neddawattum, Wight, &c. CEYLON; Central Province, 

 alt. 3-4000 ft., Gardner, &c. 



Stem red-brown, scaly, continuous with a cylindric warted rhizoma as thick as a 

 crow-quill and several inches long. Scales ' in. Ion g, red-brown. Pedicels J in. 

 Calyx orange-brown, about 1 in., terete. Corolla 1^-2 in. ; tube pale straw-coloured 

 in Wight's and Thwaites' drawings, limb the same or white. Stamens included, 

 filaments pubescent ; anthers with the barren cell acutely spurred. Placentas in 

 Wight's figure (of aurantiaca) 2-partite, nearly meeting in the centre, with the 

 opposed faces not ovuliferous. Thwaites' S. pallidiflora (C. pallida, Gardn.} differs 

 according to his drawing only in the paler corolla-lobes. 



7. C. neilg-herrica, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. viii. 157; 

 quite glabrous except sometimes the corolla, stem short very stout, scales 



