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stigma, opening by 2 pores. Ovary inferior, unilocular ; ovules 
very numerous, on numerous indefinite placentas. Seeds minute.— 
Distris. Species 2, one Japanese, and one in Sumatra, Borneo 
and the Malay Peninsula. 
1. Bruemansta Lowu, Bece. in Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. xi. 198 
(1868), and Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. (uld series) I, 84, t. v and vii, 
t. 74. 
Unisexual. Perianth dark brownish-red, about 2 cm. tall and 
14 cm across; tube glabrous within; lobes covered with long 
reddish hair, deflexcd, acuminate, 14 to 16 in number when fully 
expanded. Column shortly stipitate; anthers numerous, in the 
male flower 2-celled, in the female abortive Stigma large, cup- 
shaped, hairy. Fawcett Trans. Linn. Soc. II, 244, t. 36; Solms- 
Laubach Pflanzenreich I. c. p. 10. 
Panane: at Kwala Tembeling, Azdley—Duistris. Sumatra 
(Forbes), Borneo in Sarawak and Limbang (Beccari), Seringok 
(Everett). 
Very foetid. Everett in litt. says, ‘‘It is dark brownish red and exactly 
resembles a piece of hairy skin. It exhales a putrid odour, and on its being 
taken into the house, flies were immediately attracted to it and laid their eggs 
on it. These eggs were hatched out in due time, and the maggots after 
wandering about the flower died.” 
Family CIX. BALANOPHORACEA. 
By H. N. Riprey. 
Parasitic herbs with a tuberous rhizome and leaves reduced to 
scales, or bract-like. Flowers small, in un sexual or bisexual spikes. 
Perianih of male flowers of 3 to 8 valvate lobes or wanting. 
Siamens 1 to many, filaments free or usuaily connate, anthers 
bilocular or 4- to many-locular, often connate. Perianth of femaie 
flower usually 0, or tubular, or lobed. Ovary giobvse ellipsoid, 
sessile or stalked, l- to 3-locular; styles 1 or 2; ovules solitary 
in the loculi. ruit small, resembling the ovary, one-cciled, one- 
seeied —Disrrip. Genera 14, species about 4U; in the tropics of 
both hem.spheres, Europe and New Zealand. 
Styles olitary, 
_Female flower naked Se ais .. 1. BALANOPHORA, 
Styles 2, 
. Female flower with tubular perianth .. .. 2. RHOPALOCNEMIS. 
