778 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Zaginetia. 
with one perfect cell adnate to the filament, not spurred below, 
the other absent from the upper anthers, empty clavate and 
defiexed in the lower. Carpels connate in a 1-celled ovary; 
placentas large, 2- or more lobed, filling the cavity; ovules very 
many, covering the whole placental surface; style slender ; stigma 
large, ne Fruit a partially 2-valved capsule. Seeds crowded, 
minute, pitted. 
Scape slender, naked; corolla purple ; placentas multifid............ indica. 
Scape short, stout, bracteate ; corolla-tube yellow ; mouth blue; i iia 
2-lamellate peduncu ata 
1468, AievettA inpica Roxb.; F. I. iii. 80; F. B. I. iv. 320. 
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1469. ZRGINETIA PEDUNCULATA Wall. ; F. B. I.iv. 320. Orobanche 
pedunculata F. I, iii. 29, 
N. Bengal. 
A leafless herb, parasitic on grasses. 
670. Orobanche Linn. 
Scapigerous, scaly herbs; scapes or stems simple or branched, 
stout or slender; scales acute. Flowers in dense or lax or inter- 
rupted spikes or racemes; bracts scale-like; bracteoles 2 or 0. 
Sepals connate in an unequally 4-fid, antero-posteriorly 2-partite 
calyx ; segments entire or 2-fid, with rarely a fifth lobe or segment. 
Petals 5, connate in a 2-lipped corolla; tube curved, dilated above, 
circumscissile below ; upper lip erect, semis none or 2-fid, 
lower somewhat spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
included; anther-cells equal, parallel, bases aie mucronate. 
placentas 4, equidistant or paired; ovules very many; style 
simple ; stigma funnel-shaped or peltate, or more or less laterally 
2-lobed. Fruit a 2-valved capsule; valves often cohering with 
style. Seeds very many, small, globose. 
Flowers without bracteoles; spikes dense-flowered cernua. 
Flowers with 2 bracteoles ; spikes uals lax-flowered indica 
1470. OROBANCHE CERNUA Leeffl.; F. B. I. iv. 325. 
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