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NATURAL Hisronr OF PLANTS. 



possible. Some, as P. glaucescens of India, have caducous sepals ; ^ 

 others, as P. trij'ht/Ua, have sepals less unequal, and the stamens are 

 sometimes not more thaa six in number. It is on this account that 

 we may consider it as only a section of the genus Pohjgala^ the 8alo- 

 monias,^ small Asiatic herbaceous species, which have but slightly 

 unequal sepals, and four or, more rarely, five or six stamens. Some 

 species are parasites, discoloured, with squamiform' leaves.^' 



Thus constituted, this genus contains about two huncbed species,* 

 natives of all parts of the world, more abundant in warm and 



Murultia Hiisieria. 



Fig. 108. Seed (I). 



Fig. 107. Dehiseent fruit [\). 



Fig. 109. Long. sect, 

 of seed. 



temperate climates, rare in Australia, where it is confined to the 

 tropical regions. 



1 It has been proposed to make a genus, 

 Semciocardiiim (ZuLL. in Nut, Tijih. Ned. Itid. 

 xvii. ex Hassk. loc. cit. i. 155). — B. H. Gen. 

 974. 



= Lox-K. Fl. Coehineh. 14.— DC. Prodi: i. 333. 

 — A. S. H. & MoQ. in Mem. Mu.i. xviii. t. 

 29, fig. 3; six. 330.— Deless. Ic. Sol. ui. t. 

 19.— Wight, III. t. 22.— Endl. Gen. n. 5646. 

 — B. H. Oen. 136, n. 1.— H. Bn. in Payer Fam. 

 Nat. 310. 



' The genus Epirhizanthes has been made 

 of them (Bl. Cat. Hort. Buit. 25.— DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 44.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 127, t. 1.5. 

 — Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Sue. xxiii. 158. — 

 Walp. Jnn. vii. 243). 



^jAca. Fl. Anstr. t. 233, 412, 413.— Auiil. 

 Giiian. t. 225.— II. B. K. Nuv. Gni. et Spec. v. 



t. 500-512.— A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 5, t. 

 83-89.— Deless. Jc. Set. iii. t. 15-19, 21.— 

 Wight, Icmi. t. 67, 946.— Thw. Fmim. PI. 

 Zeyl. 22, 400.— Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 200- 

 207; in Trar.s. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 158 {Salnmonia). 

 — Benth. Fl.Bongh. 43, 44; Fl. Austral, i. 138. 

 — Hakv. et SoND. Fl. Cap. i. 80. — Geiseb. Fl. 

 Brit. IF. Ind. 27.— A. Gr.«-, Man. ed. 5, 120.— 

 Chapm. Fl. S. Unit. St. 82.— C. Gat, Fl. Cliil. 

 i. 234.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 127, t. 5 

 (Epirhizanthes). — Hassk. in Ann. Mas. Ludij.- 

 Bat. i. 155.— Tr. ot Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. scr. 

 4, xvii. 129.— Oliv. Fl. Trap. A,r. i. 125.— 

 Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 468.— Reichb. le. Fl. Germ. 

 xviii. t. 1345-1351.— Gken. et Godk. Fl. de 

 Fr. i. 194.— Walp. liep. i. 231 ; ii. 768 ; v. 63 ; 

 Ann. i. 73 ; ii. 79 ; iv. 237 ; vii. 243. 



