389 



(S) M. Indica. {Roxb.} 



Jdent. Dec. ptod. XI. p. 43, 



(%*!. Oiobanche jEgittetia, Linn. 



Engrav. Boxb. Cor. I. t. 91.— Wight's Icon. t. 895.— Rheed'e 

 Mah XI. t. 47. 



Spec. Char. Scape simple, lelongated, nal;ed, bearing at its 

 apex a large curved purple flower, something like a tobacco-pi^e ; 

 palyx spathe-Jike, lax, split in froTit, acute. 



Parasitic on <heroQts of bushes and grass. Circars. Concai^s. 

 I'ravaucore. Silhet. Flowering in the hot season. 



GENUS ni. CHRISTISOOTA. 

 Ilidjiiitmia AngioBperiula. Sex; Syati 



De.riv. Named after Dr. Robert Christison of Edinburgh. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx tubular, qnihquifid, feq^al or sublabiate % 

 porolla hypegy-Hous, tube funnel-shaped, , limb 5-lobed, bilabiate i 

 stamens didynamoua, inserted on the tabe of the corolla, allfer^ 

 tile, jnclase, or rarely exsei-ted : anthers ^-celled, one pollenifer- 

 ous, dehiscing at the apex by, an oblique pore, the other sterile^ 

 prolonged into an acute spur : dislc one : ovapy ovate-oblong, 1- 

 celled : plaoentiferous inargins deeply inflexed, revoliite 'within 

 the cell : ovules numerons : style filiform, si^iple : stigma bila- 

 biate, or orbicul^f : capsule enclos'ed in the calyx, subglobose, 1- 

 celled, 2-valved, dehiscing ,loculicidally, and bearing the placejita 

 on the middle of the v^lvfes : Seeds numerous, oblong, obtuse, 

 efcpported on a short thick funiculus : outer seed-coat loose, inem- 

 branaoeous, reticulated, or sub-scrobiculate (pitted^ike a thSniblel)^; 

 embryo enclosed in copious , albumen, orthotropous : cotyledana 

 short,, obtuse : ra4ifile thick,, blunt.^Herbaceous plants growingi 

 parasitically on the rbots of other plants ; stems short, simple oi« 

 ramous, sgaly below, flpriferous towards the apex : flowers large^ 

 rose-coloured, or yellow, or deep purpHsh-blue : pedicels race^ 



(1) C. Stocksii. (Hook.') 



r 



Ident. Hook. Ic.'Plant. vol. IX. & t. 836.— Dalz. Bomb, flor, 

 p. 202. 



Syn. C. calcarata, Wight's Icon. t. 1426. 

 1 Spec. Chab. Scape thick, fleshy, imbricately scaly : gcalei 

 ^padly ovate, concave, obtuse : flowers racemose : pedicJels- eloh»< 



