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usually shortly 2-fid or emarginate, lower 3-lobed; limb spreading; tube 

 slender abruptly incurved at or above the middle. Stameyia 4, didyna- 

 mous, included; anthers 1-celled, vertical, dorsifixed, bases obtuse; 

 connective sometimes mucronate. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules in each 

 cell numerous ; style thickened upwards ; stigma entire. Fruit an 

 oblong or globose loculicidal capsule ; valves entire, firm, septiferous, 

 separating from the placentas. Seeds many, small, ovoid or oblong, 

 reticulated. — Disteib. Species 20, in the tropics of the Eastern 

 Hemisphere. 



Striga lutba. Lour. Flor. Cochin-Chin. 22. A slender, erect, 

 simple or fastigiately branched herb, 6 to 18 in. high ; leaves and stems 

 scabrid or villous. Leaves linear, -5 to 1'5 in. long, -12 in. wide. 

 Flowers in elongated, usually interrupted spikes, 2 to 6 in. long ; bracts 

 usually exceeding the calyx, linear-lanceolate, scabrid. Calyx 10- 

 ribbed, -25 in. long, teeth 5, sub-equal. Corolla white or yellow or pink 

 or purple, "5 in. long, glabrous, incurved; upper lip emarginate reflexed; 

 lower lip 3-lobed spreading. Capsule oblong, grooved, shorter than the 

 calyx. Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. I. 363 ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. IV. 299. S. Mrsuta, Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 502 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Plor. 181. S. coccinea, Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 364. S-plioenicea, 

 Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 364. Buchnera asiatica, Linn. Sp. PI. 630 

 partly ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 31 ; Benth. Scroph. Ind. 40. B. coccinea, 

 Benth. Scroph. Ind. 40 , Wall. Cat. 3870. B. pho&nicea, Benth. Scroph. 

 Ind. 40 ; Wall. Cat. 3874. Gampuleia coccinea, Hook. Flor. Bxot. t. 203. 

 Eheede Hort. Malab. IX. t. 66. 



Penang : Curtis 1840 ! Pahang : Bidley ! Singapore : Bidley 139 ; 

 Kurz ! Andamans : Port Blair, King ! Prain ! — Distrib. Throughout 

 S.B. Asia, Arabia, Madagascar, Africa. 



13. Centrantheea, E. Br. 



Herbs, semiparasitic, annual, rigid, scabrous. Leaves opposite 

 throughout, or opposite below alternate above, oblong or linear, obtuse, 

 entire or toothed. Floivers axillary, or in bracteate spikes or racemes ; 

 bracteoles 2. Calyx compressed, spathaceous, split on one side, 

 acuminate entire, or shortly 3-5-lobed on the other. Corolla 5-lobed ; 

 lobes sub-equal, spreading, the 2 upper inmost in bud ; limb oblique ; 

 tube long, incurved. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; anthers con- 

 tiguous in pairs ; cells transverse, spurred or mucronate at base, one 

 cell often sterile. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules in each cell numerous ; 

 style simple, dilated above ; stigma acute, linguiform. Fruit an ovoid 

 or sub-globose loculicidal capsule ; valves entire, carrying away the 



