74 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



possible. Some, as P. glancescens of India, havc^ caducous sepals ; ^ 

 others, as P. frip/i//lla, have sepals less unequal, aud the stanieus are 

 sometimes not more than six in number. It is on this accoimt that 

 we may consider it as only a section of the genus Fo/i/<jala, the Salo- 

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

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

 species are parasites, discolotired, with squamiform leaves.^ 



Thus constituted, this genus contains about two hundred species,"* 

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



Muraltia Jleistcna. 



Fig. 108. Seed (I). 



Fig. 107. Dehiscent 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, 

 Semtiocardimn (Zoll. in Nut. I'ijils. Neil, Ind. 

 xvii. ex Hassk. hic. cit. i. 155). — B. H. Geii. 

 974. 



= LouK. Fl. Cochiiich. 14.— DC. Prodi: i. 333. 

 — A. S. H. & Moa. in Mém. Mus. xviii. t. 

 29, fig. 3; xix. 330.— Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 

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

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

 Nat. 310. 



" The genus Epirhkanthes has been made 

 of them (Bl. Cat. Sort. Btiit. 25.— DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 44.— MiQ. Fl. Iiid.-Sat. i. p. ii. 127, t. 15. 

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

 Walp. Ann. vii. 243). 



' Jacq. Fl. Austr. t 233, 412, 413.— AuiiL. 

 Oiiian. t. 225.— H. B. K. Nov. Grn. et Spec. v. 



t. 506-512.— A. S. n. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 5, t. 

 83-89.— DELE.-is. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 15-19, 21.— 

 Wight, Icon. t. 67, 946.— Thw. Ennm. PI. 

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

 207; in Trans. Linn. Soca^ii. 158 [Siilomonia). 

 — Bentii. Fl. Iloni/k: 43, 44 ; Fl. austral, i. 138. 

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

 Brit. jr. Ind. 27.— A. Gray, Man. ed. 5, 120.— 

 Chapm. Fl. S. Unit. St. 82.— C. Gay, Fl. Chil. 

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

 [Epirhizanthes). — Hassk. in Ann. Mus. Ludij.- 

 Bat. i. 155. — Tu. et Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 

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

 Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 468.— Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 x™i. t. 1345-1351.- Gren. et Godr. Fl. de 

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

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



