238 cxxxiv. BALANomoREJE. (J. D. Hooker.) \Balanopliora. 



peduncle scattered, heads obovoid or subglobose usually 1-sexual. "Weddel 

 in Ann. So. Nat. Ser. 3, xiv. 167, t. 9, f. 11-22 ; Hook.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxii. 30 and 46; Eichler in DC. Prodr. xvii. 145 ; Faivcett in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. ined. B. picta, Miquel, PI. Hohen. 1272. B. gigantea, Wall. Cat. 

 7249. B. typhina, Wall. Cat. 7248/3. B. elongata in part, Hook. f. I. c. 

 Laiigsdorffia indica, Arn. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 205, 206, and in Ann. Nat. Hist. 

 ii. 36. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Nilghiri Mts., Wight. CEYLON, Thwaites, &c. 



Rootstock very variable in size, often very large. Peduncles 3-12 in. high, 

 stout (sometimes 1 in. diam.) or slender, and beads rosy, pale red brown or purplish. 

 Flotoers usually dioecious. Perianth 4-6-lobed. Eicbler bas referred tbe Nilghiri 

 specimen vvbicb I bad assumed to be -B. elongata to a var. (&. minor) of -B. indica, 

 on account of its Laving only as many anther-cells as perianth-lobes, whilst -B. elon- 

 gata bas more (the number is not given for either species), and the anthers opening 

 by longitudinal slits. Mr. Fawcett informs me that -B. gigantea may differ from 

 -B. indica in the rootstock being tessellate rather than warted, and devoid of 

 pustules. 



4. B. Thwaitesii, Eichler in DC. Prodr. xvii. 146 ; rootstock small, 

 peduncle a foot high clothed with oblong scales 1-2 in. long, scales imbri- 

 cate oblong lacerate, male head ovoid. Fawcett in Journ. Linn. Soc. ined. 

 B. indica, Thwaites, mss. 



CEYLON; Thwaites. 



Known only from a drawing in .the Kew collection sent by Dr. Thwaites, and 

 which represents either a gigantic male specimen of B. indica or a different species. 

 The whole plant is of a dirty -yellow colour, the perianth nearly \ in. diam., and tLe 

 oblong head of anthers \ in. long. 



*** Scales of peduncle imbricate. Anther-cells 20-60. 



5. B. polyandra, Griff: in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 94, t. 7 ; rootstock 

 tuberous lobed, male heads cylindric, female ovoid or oblong. Hook. f. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 30 and 47 ; Fawcett in Journ. Linn. Soc. ined. B. 

 typhina, Wall. Cat. 7248 A, B. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; on roots of trees, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. IT. KHASIA MTS. 

 Wallieh, Griffith, &c. 



General habit colour and female flowers of B. involucrata, differing in the many, 

 celled head of anthers ; the male flowers are the largest of the genus. 



2. HHOPALOCNEIVIIS, Jungle. 



A very stout glabrous dioecious fleshy herb, with a large tuberous 

 warted lobed rootstock. Peduncles many, very stout, bursting through 

 the rootstock, which forms a warted coriaceous irregularly lobed tube round 

 their base. Heads cylindric ; flowers at first concealed under hexagonal 

 connate peltate bracts, intermixed with dense masses of filiform cellular pro- 

 cesses (bracteoles or imperfect flowers). MALE PL. Perianth campanulate 

 or funnel-shaped adnate below to the base of the staminal column ; mouth 

 entire. Stamens 3 ; filaments connate in a long exsertect column ; anthers 

 connate, 2-4-celled, irregularly bursting at the top. FEM. PL. Perianth 

 jonttuent with the walls of the ovary, ellipsoid, compressed; limb very 

 short, flipped; styles 2, slender; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit linear or 

 ovate-oblong, turgid. Seed filling the cavity of the pericarp, consisting 

 a y, er 7/ ar ^ e hora y embryo covered with a unicellular layer of endo- 

 sperm, Hoffmeister. 



