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Gen. Chae. Hermaplirodite, ebracteplate ; cajyx tntjnlar, 5- 

 toothed . corolla infundibaliform, sub-ringent, ' 6-lobed' : stamens 

 didynamous, incluse : anthers 2-celled, embraced at the base by 

 a cnp-shaped disk : placentae 2, large, fleshy, nearly filling th4 

 vhole cavity, covered on all sides with minute ovules : style* 

 Bub-clavate : stigma peltate. 



(1) O. TCBULOSA. ('iJ. W.J 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vdl. IV. & t. 1422. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, parasitical, with erect, slightly ra- 

 inous, nearly naked stems, only ITurnished with a few scales: pe- 

 duncles axillary, longer than the floral scale, ebracteolate : corolla 

 tubular, ventricose above, mt)re than twice the leqgtli of the calyx : 

 filaments thickened below with a ring of hairs at the base. 



Courtallum, parasitic on loots of Bamboos^ flowering in Sep-^ 

 tember. 



ORDEH CXX. ACANTHACE^. 



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Calyx pentamerous, the odd sepal posterior, sometimes the 

 two anterior ones united, lience 4 or 5-divided, sometimesj 

 but rarely, nearly obsolete, entire or several-toothed : corolla 

 monopetalous, hypogy'nous, 5-cleft, the segments alternate with 

 the sep9,ls : limb usually |)ilp;biate, but sometimes regular, 5- 

 lobed, contorte4 in aestivation : stamens inserted on the tube at 

 different heights, sometimes near the base, about the middle; 

 or on the throat, either didynamous, the 6th rudimentary or 

 altogether wanting, or often only two antheriferous : filamenta 

 filiform, sometimes united by pairs at the base, or even mona- 

 delphous, two or one-oelled, cells contiguous, parallel or super- 

 posed, or vaxiously divaricated, occasionally one of them sterile, 

 dehiscing longitudinally: ovary free, dicarpellary, two-celled, 

 the septum formed of the inflexed margins of the carpels^ 

 either c6mplete (meeting in the axis) or somewhat incomplete : 

 cells anticous and posticous with respect to the axis of inflo- 

 rescence, often spuriously stipitate from the obliteration of the 

 lower half of the cells, sometimes rostrate at the apex : ovules 

 1-2 or several in eacb cell, sessile or borne on processes of 



