162 OROBASCHACEJE [ JEGINETIA. 



1. JE. indica, Linn. Sp. PL 632 ; Roxb.; FL Ind. Hi, 30 ; Eoyle III. 292; 

 F. B. I. iv t 320 ; Prain Beng. PL 778 ; Corte Fl. Bom l >. ii, 311. 



Whole plant tinned with purple, turning brown when dry. Rhizome 

 small, tuberous, emitting many short branching coral-like roots. 

 Scapes erect, slender, solitary or several, 6-12 in. high, with usually a 

 fe>v scales at the base. Flowers s olitary on the t->p of each nake"i 

 scape, nodding. Calyx -! in. long, closed in bud, pointed, glabrous. 

 Corolla purple ; tube 1-1$ in. long, curved, inflated ; limb f-1 in. 

 across ; lobes small, equal, rounded, margins fimbriate. Anthers of 

 lower stamens with thick blunt dorsal spurs. Placentas multifid. 

 Capsule | in. Ion?, ovoid, beaked, enclosed in the persistent calyx and 

 corolla. Seeds pale-yellow, testa loose and hyaline. 



Dehra Dun, in shady ravines. Flowers daring the rainy season. 

 DISTEIB. Throughout the greater part of India from the W. Hima- 

 laya in Kumaon up to 3,500 ft., also in Nepal, Assam and on the Khasia 

 Hills and southwards to Travanoore and Ceylon, extending to Burma, 

 China, Japan and the Philippines. 



2. JB. pedunculata, Wall. PL As. Rar. Hi, 13, t. 219 ; F. B. I. iv, 320 ; 

 Prain Beng. PL 778. Orobanche pedunculuta, lioxb.; FL Ind. Hi, 29. 

 O. acaulis, Roxb.j PL Ind. Hi, 29. 



Whole plant red or yellow. Stem very short, buried in the soil. Scape 

 short, stout, very fleshy, many-flowered ; bracts - in. long, ovate, 

 obtuse. Calyx l$-2$ in. fleshy, red taming to yellowish-white, obtuse, 

 acute or shortly beaked, very mucilaginous. Coro7?a-tube equalling the 

 calyx, yellowish ; limb violet, lobes crenate or erose. Stigma broadly 

 cordiform, palta-te. Capsule ovoid. Seeds brown. 



Sub-Himalayan tracts ; Moradabad (T. Thomson), parasitic on roots of 

 the Khas-khas grass (Vetiveria zizanioides). Flowers during the rainy 

 neason. DISTRIB. Throughout the greater part of India from near 

 Marree (W. Himalaya) to SiUkirn and Assam, and from Bengal (in 

 jhils) to Travancore and Ceylon (on roots of grasses); also in Upper 

 Burma, Malay Peninsula and Islands end Cochin China. 



2, CISTANCHE, Hoffmgg. and Link ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 324. 



Scapigerous herbs, scape or stem simple, scaly. Flowers subsessile, 

 in dense spikes, yellow violet or purple* Calyx "broadly tubular- 

 campanulate ; lobos 5, subeqnal, obtuse. Corolla-tube long, curved, 

 dilated above ; limb spreading, oblique; lobes 5, broad subequal. 

 Stamens 4, subexserted ; anthers sub trans verse, often villous ; the 

 cells equal, parallel, bases obtuse. Ovary 1-celled ; placentas 4, 

 equidistant or in pairs, stigma broad. Capsule ovoid, laterally 

 compressed, 2- valve to the base. Seeds numerous, subgloboee, 

 reticulately punctate. Species 1'?, Mediterranean region and N. 

 Africa exten 4ng to W. and C. Asia. 



