B.^LA NOPHORA CEJE. 



606 



Sarcophyte sanguinea. 



Fig. 486. Male flower (f). 



jpecies of Balanojphora have been distinguished, found in the warm 

 regions of Asia and Oceania.^ 



Sarcophyte sanguinea^^ a red and fleshy plant, growing at the Cape, 

 )arasitic on the roots of Ehehergia and Acacia^ would appear to have 

 the same general organization as Balano- 

 phora, but for its much flatter gyneecium 

 and its ovary being sometimes uniovulate, 

 sometimes bi- or triovulate. The male flower 

 (fig. 486) is composed of three or four val- 

 vate sepals and an equal number of super- 

 posed stamens, inserted in the centre of the 

 flower, formed of a thick free filament and 

 a capitate multiovulate anther, dehiscing by 

 a great number of small pores.^ Its male flowers are solitary and its 

 female united in rounded capitules. 



Mystroyetalon ^ has also a perianth formed of three folioles. In 

 the male flower they are quite united at the base, and the two pos- 

 terior are so to a greater height. Their prefloration is valvate and 

 the posterior is smaller than the two others. The androecium is 

 formed of three stamens superposed to the divisions of the perianth ; 

 but the anterior is sterile, rudimentary or even entirely absent, 

 whilst the two posterior have anthers with two cells, each divided 

 into two cellules, dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts.^ In the centre 

 is a rudimentary ovary. In the female flower, the ovary is inferior, 

 surmounted by a long slender style and a superior, tubular or urceo- 

 late, trilobed and caducous perianth. This ovary is organized like 



^ Dactylanthus Taylorii (Hook. f. Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxii. 425, t. 75, fig. A ; Eichl. Prodr. 149), 

 a plant growing parasitically on the beech and 

 Fittosporum of New Zealand appears to resemble 

 Balanophora and also Lwigsdorffia, It has naked 

 male flowers, reduced to one or two stamens 

 withbilocular anthers, and female flowers formed 

 of an ovary surmounted by two or three narrow 

 scales and a filiform style, with obtuse stigmatic 

 summit. The flowers are dioecious, and the in- 

 florescences are divided into numerous small 

 catkins forming a sort of terminal corymb. 

 The internal organization of its gynaecium and ' 

 fruit are unknown. 



2 Sparm. Xougl. Vet. AJc. Handl. Stockh. xxvii. 

 (1776) 300, t. 7.— ScHOTT et Endl. il/eZ^^. 11.— 

 Endl. Gen. n. 714. — Griff. Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xix. 338, t. 38.— Wedd. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xiv. 

 173, 1. 10, fig. 34-38.~HoFMEisT. N.Beitr. i. 581, 



t. 13 ; ^//n. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xi. 45, t. 4, 5, fig. 

 43-47.— Eichl. Act. Congr. Par. (1867) 138, t. 2, 

 fig. 21, 22; Prodr. 126.— Hook. f. Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxii. 37, t. 1 C— Tratt. Arch. i. 89; Thes. 

 90.— Harv. Gen. S.-Afr. PL 300.— Harv. and 

 SoND. Fl. Cap. ii. 574. — IchthyosmaWehdtmatini 

 ScHLCHTL, Linncea, ii. 671, t. 8 ; iii. 194. 



3 The pollen grains are globular, smooth, and 

 have three pores. 



4 Harv. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. i. ser. ii. 

 385. t. 19, 20 ; G. S.-Afr. PL 418.— Endl. Gen. 

 Suppl. i. n. 717^ — Griff. Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 

 336. — Hook. f. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 31,t. 1 B. 

 —Eichl. Act. Congr. Par. (1867) t. 1, fig. 10 ; 

 Frodr. 124. — Flepharochlamys Fb.bsl. Epim. 245. 

 —^Scybalium Harv. Gen. S.-Afr. PL Zlo (not 

 ScHOTT and Endl.). 



'" Pollen subcubical, tubercular. 



