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stigma large peltate. Capsule partially 2-valved. Seeds many, small, 
crowded ; testa pitted. — Distrib. Species 3, S.B. Asiatic. 
JEginetia pedunculata, Wall. PL As. Ear. III. 13, t. 219. A 
leafless herb, 3 to 6 in. high ; stems red or yellow, parasitic on roots, 
buried, emitting several short stout fleshy several-flowered scapes with 
alternate peduncled flowers ; peduncles 1 to 4 in. long, stout, bracteate 
at base; bracts -25 to -35 in., ovate, obtuse. Calyx 1-5 to 2 in. long, 
fleshy, dull-pink at length yellowish-white, with a mucilaginous pad 
surrounding base of corolla, tip acute or obtuse. Corolla-tube yellow 
or white, the lobes violet or claret-coloured, crenate and erose. 
Stamens didynamous, anthers of lower pair with a large dorsal fleshy 
decurved horn. Ovary 1-celled, placentas 2, each of 2 plates ; stigma 
cordate-peltate. Capsule ovoid. Seeds brown. Eeut. in DC. Prod. XI. 
43 ; Wight 111. t. 158b, f. 6 ; Ic. t. 1421 ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 
320. M. abbreviata, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3965 ; Benth. Scroph. Ind. 
95 ; Eeut. in DC. Prod. XI. 43. MU. acaulis, Walp. Eep. III. 481 ; Eeut. 
in DC. Prod. XI. 43. Orobanche pedunculata, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 45 ; 
FI. Ind. iii. 29. 0. acaulis, Eoxb. Cor. PL III. 89, t. 292, and FI. 
Ind. III. 29. 
Perak : Batang Padang Valley, 2,000 feet ; Wray 1456 ! 1457 ! — 
Distrib. India, Indo-China, Java, Sumatra. 
One of Wray’s specimens is attached to the rhizome of a Kampferia. 
Christisonia, Gardn. 
Low fleshy scaly parasitic herbs, with yellow or white or rose-purple 
flowers ; stems simple or tufted from a short or long rootstock ; scales 
alternate, obtuse or acute. Flowers densely or laxly corymbose ; 
bracteoles 2 or 0. Calyx tubular, terete or angular, 2-5-lobed or 
-toothed. Corolla-tube long, inflated or funnel-shaped, slightly or 
distinctly curved, 5-lobed, obscurely to distinctly 2-lipped, the two 
upper lobes (in our species outer in bud) sub-erect, the lower spread- 
ing. Stamens 4, included or sub-exserted ; filaments stout; anthers 
with one perfect cell and one imperfect, one pair sometimes spurred 
or appendaged; rarely with both cells perfect. Disk 0. Ovary 1-celled 
with two 2-partite placentas, or 2-celled from the placentas meeting in 
the axis ; style long, tip incurved, stigma large, 2-lobed, the upper lobe 
very small or obsolete, the lower (sometimes the only one present) very 
large orbicular or clavate ; ovules numerous. Capsule ovoid or sub- 
globose, loculicidal. Seeds minute, crowded, many perfect with striate 
testa, others imperfect with lax testa; embryo half as long as the 
albumen. — Distrib. Species 12, tropical Asiatic. 
