Balanophora.] cxxxiv. BALANOPHOREJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 237 



TUIBE. Helosideao. Perianth of male entire 

 or 3-lobed ; of female confluent with the ovary, limb 

 2-lipped. Styles 2. . 2. RHOPALOCNEMIS. 



1. BAX.ANOPHORA, Forst. 



Glabrous fleshy herbs, with a tuberous rootstock warted with lenticels 

 abounding in a waxy secretion. Peduncles bursting through the rootstock, 

 which forms an irregularly toothed or lobed ring or short sheath at its base. 

 Flowers minute, intermixed with clavate cellular bodies (bracteoles), 

 monoecious or dioecious. MALE FL. Perianth of 2-6 valvate lobes. Stamens 

 2- oo, filaments 0, or connate in a solid column ; anthers free or connate. 

 FEM. FL. Perianth 0. Ovary ellipsoid, compressed, 1-celled, narrowed into a 

 slender style, stigma terminal; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit minute, crus- 

 taceous. Seed globose, adhering to the pericarp, albumen oily ; embryo 

 subglobose, of 2-3-eells. Species about 12, Eastern Asiatic, Australian 

 and Polynesian. 



* Scales of the peduncle forming an involucre. Anthers as the perianth- 

 lobes. 



1. B. involucrata, Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 30 and 4'4, 

 t. 4-7 ; involucre of 2-4 scales connate to the middle, heads ovoid or 

 globose. Eichler in DC. Prodr. xvii. 144.. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA, on the roots of various trees; Simla, alt. 6000 ft., 

 Thomson ; Sikkhn, alt. 7-10,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Rootstock tuberous, lobed, 3-4 in. diam. Peduncles stout or slender, 1-6 in. 

 long, cylindric or compressed, rarely fascicled, involucred about the middle. Malefl. 

 with the tube of the perianth sunk in cavities of the heads, usually 3-merous. 

 Anthers transversely oblong, bursting by transverse apical slits. Fern. fl. sometimes 

 clustered round a clavate bracteole. In Sikkim I distinguished four forms of this. 



a. rubra; peduncles and ovoid 2-sexual heads red. 



/3. flava; peduncles and usually unisexual heads yellow. 



y. gracilis ; peduncles long and slender, and small unisexual heads yellow. 



8. Cathcartii ; peduncles stout and (unisexual) heads white or yellow. 



** Scales of the peduncle scattered or imbricate. Anthers as many as 

 the perianth-lobes. 



2. B. dioica, Brown in Wall. Cat. 7246, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xiii. 227, in note ; rootstock tuberous lobed or branched, scales of peduncle 

 imbricate, heads cyliniric usually 1-sexual. HooTc.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxii. 30 and 45 ; Eichler in DC. Prodr. xvii. 145 ; Royle III. 330, t. 99 (78) a. 

 B. elongata, Scholt. 8{ JEndl. Melet. xiii. in part (not of Blume) ; Fa,wcett 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. ined. B. Burmanniana, aflinis, alveolata & picta, 

 Griff, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 93, 94, t. 3-6. 



TEOPICAL and SUBTEOPICAL HIMALAYA j on roots of various trees, from Nepal 

 to Mishmi, alt. 3-7000 ft., abundant. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-600Q ft. BUEMA, 

 Griffith. 



Rootstock a few inches to a foot in diameter. Peduncles 1-12 in., stout; scales 

 laxly or densely imbricate, and heads white brown yellow or blood-red. Heads 1-3 in. 

 long, cylindric ovoid or conoidal, females with sometimes a few male flowers at the 

 base. Perianth-lobes 3-6. Staminal column short or long ; anthers bursting by 

 curved slits. A very variable plant. 



3. B. indica, Wall. Cat. 7247 ; rootstock tuberous lobed, scales of 



