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long-petloled, 3 to 5-foliolate ; leaflets elliptic or ovate-oblong, 

 shortly and obtusely acuminated, attenuated into the petiole, entire 

 subcoriaceous, shining and glabrous above ; cymes axillary, long- 

 peduncled ; corymbose, many-flowered ; lower lip of corolla densely 

 woolly ; drupe large, obovate, black when ripe. Warree Country ; 

 flowers in February. Southern Concan, Kandalla, Southern 

 M aratha Country. Native name " Sherus." Syn. Wall. Rothia 

 leucoxylon; Uoth. nov. sp. 317, Deccan, rare. 



CV. OROBANCHACE^. 



1. PHELIP^A, Tournef. 



I. P Indica, G. Don syst. iv. p 632. — Scape simple or 

 branched, with scales here and there ; calyx 4-toolhed ; leeth 

 lanceolate-subulate from a broad base ; corol tubular, infundibuli- 

 form, curved, purple, widened in the throat ; flowers spiked, terminal, 

 parasitic. On Tobacco plants in Deccan and Guzerat; found also 

 in the Caucasus, whence it may have come with Tobacco plants 

 originally. Syn. Orobanche indica, fioxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 27. 



2. ^GINETIA, Linn. 



1. M Indica, Roxb. Cor. PI. 1, p 63, t 91.— Scape simple 

 elongated, naked, bearing at its apex a large, curved, purple flower, 

 something like a tobacco-pipe ; calyx s[)athe-like, lax, split in front, 

 acute. Parasitic on the roots of bushes. Kandalla, Salsette, &c. 

 Wight Ic. 895. 



3. CHRISTISONIA, Wight. 



1. C Stocksii, Hook. Ic. PL " ix, t. 836. — Scape thick, 

 fleshy, imbricately scaly; scales broadly ovate, concave-obtuse; 

 flowers racemose; pedicels elongated, erect, without bracts; calyx 

 tubular, cylindrie; limb 6-divided; lobes triangular, rather obtuse; 

 corolla pubescent, of a bluish-white colour; the lobes spreading 

 and rounded. Parasitic on the roots of Strobilanthes ; flowers in 

 the rains. Salsette. Syn. C calcarata, Wight Ic. 1426. 



2. C. Lawii, Wight Ic. 1427. — Scape thick, fleshy, irregularly 

 shaped; base of the subsessile flowers ebracteolate, embraced by a 

 fevy loose scales ; calyx tubular, 5-toothed, regular ; corol tubular, 

 twice the length of the calyx, lobes suborbicular ; flowers large, 

 pa]e-|)urple, with yellow spots. Salsette and between the Ram 

 Ghaut and Belgnum; flowers in August. 



