Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 3G5 



stigma large peltate. Capsule partially 2-valved. Seeds many, small, 

 crowded; testa pitted. — Distkib. Species 3, S.E. Asiatic. 



.^GiNETiA PEDUNCULATA, Wall. PI. As. Ear. III. 13, t. 219. A 

 leafless herb, 3 to 6 in. high ; stems red or yellow, parasitic on roots, 

 buried, emitting several short stout fleshy several-flowered scapes with 

 alternate peduncled flowers ; peduncles 1 to 4 in. long, stout, bracteate 

 at base; bracts -25 to -35 in., ovate, obtuse. Calyx 1-5 to 2 in. long, 

 fleshy, dull-pink at length yellowish- white, with a mucilaginous pad 

 surrounding base of corolla, tip acute or obtuse. Corolla-tube yellow 

 or white, the lobes violet or claret-coloured, crenate and erose. 

 Stamens didynamous, anthers of lower pair with a large dorsal fleshy 

 decurved horn. Ovary 1-celled, placentas 2, each of 2 plates ; stigma 

 cordate-peltate. Capsule ovoid. Seeds brown. Eeut. in DC. Prod. XL 

 43 ; Wight lU. t. 158b, f. 6 ; Ic. t. 1421 ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 

 320. M. abbreviata, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3965; Benth. Scroph. Ind. 

 95 ; Eeut. in DC. Prod. XI. 43. ^. acaulis, Walp. Eep. III. 481 ; Eeut. 

 in DC. Prod. XL 43. Orobanche pedunculata, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 45 ; 

 PL Ind. iii. 29. 0. acaulis, Eoxb. Cor. PI. III. 89, t. 292, and Fl. 

 Ind. III. 29. 



Peeak: Batang Padang Valley, 2,000 feet; Wray 1456! 1457!— 

 DiSTEiB. India, Indo-China, Java, Sumatra. 



One of Wray's specimens is attached to the rhizome of a Kcempferia. 



Chbistisonia, Gardn. 



Low fleshy scaly parasitic herbs, with yellow or white or rose-purple 

 flowers ; stems simple or tufted from a short or long rootstock ; scales 

 alternate, obtuse or acute. Floiuers densely or laxly corymbose ; 

 bracteoles 2 or 0. Calyx tubular, terete or angular, 2-5-lobed or 

 -toothed. Corolla-tube long, inflated or funnel-shaped, slightly or 

 distinctly curved, 5-lobed, obscurely to distinctly 2-lipped, the two 

 upper lobes (in our species outer in bud) sub-erect, the lower spread- 

 ing. Stamens 4, included or sub-exserted ; filaments stout ; anthers 

 with one perfect cell and one imperfect, one pair sometimes spurred 

 or appendaged ; rarely with both cells perfect. Disk 0. Ovary 1-celled 

 with two 2-partite placentas, or 2-celled from the placentas meeting in 

 the axis ; style long, tip incurved, stigma large, 2-lobed, the upper lobe 

 very small or obsolete, the lower (sometimes the only one present) very 

 large orbicular or clavate ; ovules numerous. Capsule ovoid or sub- 

 globose, loculicidal. Seeds minute, crowded, many perfect with striate 

 testa, others imperfect with lax testa ; embryo half as long as the 

 albumen. — Disteib. Species 12, tropical Asiatic. 



