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Capsule orbicular or broadly ovoid, compressed, septicidal ; valves 
2-fid or 2-partite. Seeds numerous, orbicular, compressed, notched at 
the hilum ; funicle more or less expanded into a hyaline wing which 
sometimes surrounds the entire seed. 
Species 4. 
Distribution : — Canary and Cape de Verde Islands, Arabia, Sind*. 
Baluchistan. 
1. Campylantliusjuiiceus Edgew. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XVI^ 
1217 ; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 27. 
Description : — A glabrous, subglaucous undershrub, 1 — 3 feet high. 
Branches elongate, virgate, subaphvllous. Leaves linear, acute, entire ;; 
lower ones 12| inches long, 1—2 lines broad, shortly petioled ; cauline 
leaves small, subulate. 
Blowers on elongate, virgate, terminal, | — 1 foot long racemes, 
alternate, pedicellate, secund ; pedicels short 1 — 2 lines 1 ong, bibracteate 
at the base, 1 -flowered ; bracts small, ciliate. Calyx 5-partite ; segments 
lanceolate, acute. Corolla yellowish-white, much longer than the 
calyx ; tube elongate, incurved, 3 lines long ; limb patent, subequal, 
3 lines broad ; lobes ovate. Stamens 2. 
Seeds numerous, orbicular, compressed, marginate. 
Flowers : — January 1880 (Balfour), February 1851 (Thomson), March 
1850 (Madden), March 1898 (Perry), May 1859 (Anderson), Dec. 
1847 (Hooker), Dec. 1888 (Schweinf.), Dec. 1889 Defl). 
Fruits : — January 1880 (Balfour), Februaiy i 851 (Thomson), March 
1850 (Madden), May 1859 (Anderson), June 1872 (Hildebr.), Dec. 1847 
(Hooker), Dec. 1888 (Schweinf.), Dec. 1889 (Defl.). 
Locality .-—Plain of Maala, Koosaf Valley (Defl.) ; Steamer Point 
(Schweinf.) ; on grave lly slope of the Shum Shum Range (Ellenbeck) ; 
near the tanks (Busse) ; upper end of the great valley between Steamer 
Point and town (Marchesetti) ; abundant, Shum Shum Range (Hooker);, 
without locality (Edgew., Thomson, Madden, Anderson, Balfour, Hildeb- 
randt, Perry, Playfair). 
Distribution : — Yemen. 
XXX V.— OROBAXCH ACE JE. 
Annual or perennial parasitic herbs, almost perfectly destitute of 
chlorophyll, variously coloured, but never green. Stems usually simple, 
solitary or fascicled, more or less fleshy. Leaves reduced to, often 
fleshy, scales, few or many. 
