363 
Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
usually shortly 2-fid or emarginate, lower 3-lobed; limb spreading; tube 
slender abruptly incurved at or above the middle. Stamens 4, didyna- 
mous, included ; anthers 1-eelled, vertical, dorsifixed, bases obtuse ; 
connective sometimes mucronate. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules in each 
cell numerous ; style thickened upwards ; stigma entire. Fruit an 
oblong or globose loculicidal capsule ; valves entire, firm, septiferous, 
separating from the placentas. Seeds many, small, ovoid or oblong, 
reticulated. — Distrib. Species 20, in the tropics of the Eastern 
Hemisphere. 
Striga lutea, Lour. Flor. Cochin-Chin. 22. A slender, erect, 
simple or fastigiately branched herb, 6 to 18 in. high ; leaves and stems 
scabrid or villous. Leaves linear, -5 to 1-5 in. long, -12 in. wide. 
Flowers in elongated, usually interrupted spikes, 2 to 6 in. long ; bracts 
usually exceeding the calyx, linear-lanceolate, scabrid. Calyx 10- 
ribbed, -25 in. long, teeth 5, sub-equal. Corolla white or yellow or pink 
or purple, '5 in. long, glabrous, incurved; upper lip emarginate reflexed; 
lower lip 3-lobed spreading. Capsule oblong, grooved, shorter than the 
calyx. Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. I. 363 ; Hook. f. Elor. Brit. 
Ind. IY. 299. S. hirsuta, Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 502 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Elor. 181. S. coccinea, Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 364. S.phcenicea, 
Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 364. Buchnera asiatica, Linn. Sp. PI. 630 
partly ; Boxb. FI. Ind. III. 31 ; Benth. Seroph. Ind. 40. B. coccinea, 
Benth. Seroph. Ind. 40 , Wall. Cat. 3870. B. phcenicea, Benth. Seroph. 
Ind. 40 ; Wall. Cat. 3874. Campuleia coccinea, Hook. Flor. Exot. t. 203. 
Rheede Hort. Malab. IX. t. 66. 
Penang : Curtis 1840 ! Pahang : Bidley ! Singapore : Bidley 139 ; 
Kurz ! Andamans : Port Blair, King ! Prain ! — Distrib. Throughout 
S.E. Asia, Arabia, Madagascar, Africa. 
13. Centranthera, R. Br. 
Herbs, semiparasitic, annual, rigid, scabrous. Leaves opposite 
throughout, or opposite below alternate above, oblong or linear, obtuse, 
entire or toothed. Flowers axillary, or in braeteate spikes or racemes ; 
bracteoles 2. Calyx compressed, spathaeeous, split on one side, 
acuminate entire, or shortly 3-5-lobed on the other. Corolla 5-lobed ; 
lobes sub-equal, spreading, the 2 upper inmost in bud ; limb oblique ; 
tube long, incurved. Sta?nei is 4, didynamous, included ; anthers con- 
tiguous in pairs ; cells transverse, spurred or mucronate at base, one 
cell often sterile. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules in each cell numerous ; 
style simple, dilated above ; stigma acute, linguiform. Fruit an ovoid 
or sub-globose loculicidal capsule ; valves entire, carrying away the 
