236 CXXXIIL SAXTALACKaa. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phacettaria. 



pressed, but fresh specimens are necessary to confirm this. Flowers smaller even than 

 in P. rigidula, with the lobes often cleft to the base. 



3. P. Wattii, HooJc.f. ; hoary, stems much branched, branches stout, 

 flowers clustered, perianth 5-cleft. 



MANIPUE; on the mountains, alt. 7500 ft., Watt, growing on Loranthus. 



Stems 4-8 in. lone:, about in. diam., flexuous. Flowers larger than in the two* 

 former species, sometimes crowded in globose masses, hoary. 



8. CHAIVXPEREIA. Griff. 



Glabrous shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers minute, 

 in 3-5-fld. axillary panicled cymes, 2-sexual (always ?) ; bracts minute or 

 0. Perianth inferior ; segments 5, valvate. Stamens 5, perigynous, fila- 

 ments longer than the perianth, filiform ; anther-cells parallel. Disk 

 . shortly 5-lobed between the stamens. Ovary superior, half immersed in the 

 disk ; stigma sessile, broad ; ovule solitary, erect in the centre of the cell. 

 Drupe ellipsoid, pedicelled. Seed conform to the drupe; embryo terete, 

 radicle superior clavate. Species 1 or 2, Malayan. 



C. G-riffithiana, Planch, in Herb. HooJc. ; leaves oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate acute or acuminate, male panicles very slender often exceeding 

 the leaves. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 330 (Griffilhii). Champereia, Griff', in Calc. 

 Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 237. 



TENASSERIM, and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Griffith (Kew Dlstrib. 4388), '&c. 

 MALACCA and PENANG, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Dlstrib. 375, 1316). 



A small tree ; branches slender, bark very pale. Leaves 3-6 in., coriaceous, ovate- 

 oblong or lanceolate, very pale when dry, nerves slender ; petiole \ in. Male panicles 

 almost thread-like -, flowers pedicelled, -^ in. diam. Fruiting panicles with stout 

 branches. Drupe % in. long, bright red, very shortly stoutly pedicelled, quite smooth, 

 tip rounded. Opilia manillana and Cumingiana of Baillon (Adansonia, iii. 125), 

 are very closely allied plants. 



OKDES CXXXIV. BALANOPHOREJE. 



Low fleshy leafless or scaly brown, reddish or yellow root-parasites, 

 without stomates. Flowers -monoecious or dioecious, small or minute, 

 crowded on spadix-like peduncled heads or cones ; peduncles ' very stout, 

 simple, annual or arising from an amorphous tuberous or a branching 

 annual or perennial rootstock. MALE FL. Perianth 0, or of 3-8-valvate 

 lobes. Stamens 1-2 in the naked flowers ; in the flowers with a perianth 

 as many as its lobes and opposite them or more, filaments 0, or fleshy, free 

 or connate in a column or tuj>e ; anthers free or connate, 2-many-celled, 

 opening by pores or valves, or bursting irregularly. FEM. FL. Perianth 

 0, or confluent with the ovary ; limb 0, or minutely toothed. Ovary 1-3- 

 celled ; styles 1-2 or 0, stigmas simple or capitellate, rarely pulvinate and 

 sessile ; ovule 1 in each cell, usually pendulous from the top, anatropous or 

 atropous, naked or with a single integument, or reduced to an embryo- 

 sac. Fruit minute, crustaceous or coriaceous, 1 -seeded. Seed usually 

 adherent to the pericarp, testa very thin or rarely thick, albumen densely 

 granular and oily, rarely floury ; embryo most jninute, undivided. 

 Genera 14 ; species about 40, tropical or subtropical. 



TRIBE. Eubalanophoreee. Perianth of male 

 fl. 3-6-lobed, of female 0. Stamens connate in a 

 column. Style 1. 1. BALANOPIIOHA. 



