364 Flora of the Malayan Peninsida. 



placentas. Seeds many, small, oblong-cuneate ; testa lax, reticulate. — 

 DiSTRiB. Species 4-5, E. Asiatic and Australian. 



Centbanthera humifusa. Wall. Cat. 3883. A dwarf herb, diffusely 

 branching from the base, hispid or glabrous, branches 3 to 6 in. long. 

 Leaves linear, entire, "5 to "75 in. long. Floivers in terminal spikes, 

 sub-sessile ; bracts small. Calyx ovoid, sub-acute, -15 in. long. Corolla 

 yellow, -3 to -5 in. long, incurved. Capsule sub-globose, '15 in. wide. 

 Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 525; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 301. 

 Bazimiovia tranq^uebarica, Spreng. Syst. II. 812. Torenia lepidota, 

 Both Nov. Sp. 281. 



Malacca : Griffith ! Singapore : Kurz ! — Distkib. China, Indo- 

 China, India, Malaya. 



Order LXXXIV. GEOBANCHACE^. 



[By D. Peain.] 



Eoot-parasites, annual, white or reddish. Stem simple or branched, 

 stout or slender, clothed with leaf-scales. Leaves proper 0. Floicers 

 solitary or in spikes or racemes, irregular. Sepals 4-5, usually connate 

 in a variously toothed or spathaceous calyx, rarely free. Corolla 

 hypogynous, 2-lipped ; upper lip vaulted, lower lip 3-lobed ; throat 

 often with 2 villous folds ; tube curved. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 inserted on corolla-tube ; anthers 1-2-celled ; cells spurred at the base, 

 dehiscence by slits or basal pores ; one cell sometimes imperfect. Disk 

 unilateral or glandular or obsolete. Ovary of 2 connate carpels, usually 

 1-celled ; style long, tip curved ; stigma 2-lobed, sub-capitate ; ovules 

 usually numerous on generally 2 pairs of free or confluent parietal 

 placentas which sometimes meet in the axis of the ovary. Capsule 

 1-celled, 2-valved; seeds usually many, minute, with a pitted or 

 tubercled, rarely reticulate and lax testa ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 ovoid, entire or 2-fid. 



^GiNETiA, Linn. 



Leafless parasitic herbs with simple or branched naked or scaly 

 stems or scapes. Floivers few, large, solitary or corymbose ; brac- 

 teoles 0. Calyx spathaceous, split in front almost to the base. 

 Corolla incurved, campanulate-tubular ; limb obscurely 2-lipped, lobes 

 somewhat spreading, the two upper lobes (upper-lip) connate. Stamens 

 included ; anthers with one perfect cell adnate to filament and not 

 spurred ; the other cell absent in upper anthers, empty clavate and 

 deflexed in the lower. Ovary 1-celled ; placentas large, 2-lobed or 

 multifid, filling the chamber, ovuliferous throughout; style slender; 



