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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
placentas. Seeds many, small, oblong-cuneate ; testa lax, reticulate. — 
Disteib. Species 4-5, E. Asiatic and Australian. 
Centbanthera humifusa, Wall. Oat. 3883. A dwarf herb, diffusely 
branching from the base, hispid or glabrous, branches 3 to 6 in. long. 
Leaves linear, entire, ‘5 to -75 in. long. Flowers in terminal spikes, 
sub-sessile ; bracts small. Calyx ovoid, sub-acute, -15 in. long. Corolla 
yellow, - 3 to '5 in. long, incurved. Capsule sub-globose, -15 in. wide. 
Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 525; Hook. f. Dior. Brit. Ind. IV. 301. 
Bazumovia tranquebarica, Spreng. Syst. II. 812. Torenia lepidota, 
Both Nov. Sp. 281. 
Malacca : Griffith ! Singapore : Kurz ! — Distrib. China, Indo- 
China, India, Malaya. 
Order LXXXIV. OBOBANCHACE2E. 
[By D. Prain.] 
Boot-parasites, annual, white or reddish. Stem simple or branched, 
stout or slender, clothed with leaf-scales. Leaves proper 0. Floivers 
solitary or in spikes or racemes, irregular. Sepals 4-5, usually connate 
in a variously toothed or spathaceous calyx, rarely free. Corolla 
hypogynous, 2-lipped ; upper lip vaulted, lower lip 3-lobed ; throat 
often with 2 villous folds ; tube curved. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
inserted on corolla-tube ; anthers 1-2-celled ; cells spurred at the base, 
dehiscence by slits or basal pores ; one cell sometimes imperfect. Disk 
unilateral or glandular or obsolete. Ovary of 2 connate carpels, usually 
1-celled ; style long, tip curved ; stigma 2-lobed, sub-capitate ; ovules 
usually numerous on generally 2 pairs of free or confluent parietal 
placentas which sometimes meet in the axis of the ovary. Capsule 
1-celled, 2-valved ; seeds usually many, minute, with a pitted or 
tubercled, rarely reticulate and lax testa ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 
ovoid, entire or 2-fid. 
JEginetia, Linn. 
Leafless parasitic herbs with simple or branched naked or scaly 
stems or scapes. Floivers few, large, solitary or corymbose ; brac- 
teoles 0. Calyx spathaceous, split in front almost to the base. 
Corolla incurved, campanulate-tubular ; limb obscurely 2-lipped, lobes 
somewhat spreading, the two upper lobes (upper-lip) connate. Stamens 
included ; anthers with one perfect cell adnate to filament and not 
spurred ; the other cell absent in upper anthers, empty clavate and 
deflexed in the lower. Ovary 1-celled ; placentas large, 2-lobed or 
multifid, filling the chamber, ovuliferous throughout ; style slender ; 
