GENERA. 



1. Balanophora Foest. — Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Male 

 flower : perianth 3-6-pliyllous (coloured), rarely 2-pliyllous, valvate. 

 Stamens equal in number to folioles of perianth or more (up to 60 ; 

 in crowded sub-6-gonal cellules, singly 1-rimose), connate in a eapi- 

 tule; filaments connate in central column; anthers 1-2-locular, sub- 

 rotund and transversely rimose or hippocrepiform, sometimes linear 

 . erect, longitudinally rimose or 6-gonal and rimose. Female flowers 

 naked ; germen ovoid, attenuate in slender style, 1-locular. Ovule 

 1, inserted under apex of cell or short (1 -cellular) funicle, descending, 

 anatropous pauci-cellulose ; integument 0. Fruit nucamentaceous ; 

 exocarp thin subcrustaceous ; putamen hard, I-spermous. Seed 

 completely filling cavity of putamen, descending ; albumen copious 

 grandicellulose, oily ; embryo superior very small subrotund pauci- 

 cellulose. — Fleshy fungiform parasitic plants (coloured) ; rhizome 

 tuberous or elongate stellatel^ lenticellate, simple or lobed or 

 branched ; floral branches breaking from rhizome aerial, at base 

 sheathed in volva, clothed with imbricate alternate or rarely opposite, 

 free or connate scales or naked above ; flowers in a terminal spike or 

 globose or elongate more rarely clavate capitule ; inflorescence 1-2- 

 sexual ; male flowers in 2-sexual inferior, rather larger pedicellate ; 

 female very small, in 2-sexual inflorescence superior, shortly race- 

 mose orspicate in secondary axes, sometimes subverticillate "and 

 growing together in a subhomogeneous velvety or minutely granular 

 layer," ebracteate ; secondary axes small, not floriferous at apex and 

 dilated to a clavate (spadicellate) body. (Warm Asia and Oceania.) 

 —See p. 503. 

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