CXXVI. OPILIACE^. 
Lepionurns.] 
*73 
acuminate, base cuneate; nerves 7 to 9 pairs; 4 to 6-5 in. long, 
3-5 in. wide; petioles *15 to *35 in. long. Spike dense, up to 
1-25 in. long. Bracts ovate, longer than flowers. Flowers shortly 
pedicelled, green. Drupe *5 in. long, oblong, red. Hab. Common 
in woods. Singapore, Garden Jungle; Changi. Johor, Castle- 
wood. Malacca (Maingay). Selangor, Ulu Gombak. Perak, Larut 
(Kunstler). Distrib. Java, Borneo. 
(2) L. oblongifolius Mast, in Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 583. var. 
angustifolius Ridl. 
A slender twiggy plant. Leaves thin lanceolate acuminate at 
both ends; nerves 6 pairs; 4-5 in. long, 1-5 in. wide; petioles 
very short, winged nearly to base. Racemes very slender, about 
1 in. long. Bracts ovate cuspidate. Flowers distant, very small; 
pedicels filiform, longer. Perianth campanulate, globose, dirty 
yellow, lobes oblong. Hab. Perak, Gunong Kerbau (Robinson). 
Distrib. Of type form Sikkim and Assam. 
Masters and King both confused L. sylvestris with this distinct plant, 
which is apparently a bigger, more branched plant, and has more slender 
distant spikes, more distinctly globose flowers and cuspidate bracts. 
Order CXXVIL BALANOPHORACEiE. 
Red or yellow parasites on roots with tuberous rhizome and 
leaves reduced to scales or bract-like. Flowers small in uni- or 
bi-sexual spikes. Perianth of male of 3 to 8 valvate lobes or 
absent. Stamens 1 or many; filaments free or connate. Perianth 
of female tubular or lobed or absent. Styles 1 or 2. Ovary globose 
or ellipsoid, 1 to 3 locular. Fruit minute, i-seeded. Species about 
40, tropics generally, Europe and New Zealand. 
Style 1; female flower naked . . . • .1. Balanophora 
Styles 2; female flower with tubular perianth . . 2. Rhopalocnemis 
1 . BALANOPHORA, Forst. 
Firm fleshy red or yellow herbs with a large tuberous warty 
rhizome. Peduncles cylindric with large scale-leaves or yellow 
sub-foliaceous ovate leaves. Spikes uni- or bi-sexual, ovoid or 
cylindric, dense-flowered. Male perianth stipitate, lobes 3 to 6, 
ovate or oblong. Stamens 3, or many, filaments connate; anthers 
bilocular or connate into a 3 or many locellate mass. Females 
minute, no perianth, sessile or on the stalks of fleshy cellular bodies 
(spadicels). Ovary ellipsoid, 1 ovule; style hair-like. Seed minute. 
Species 15, tropical Asia and Australia. 
Spikes unisexual, thick, red. 
Anther-cells 5, horse-shoe-shaped . . . (1) B. gigantea 
Anther-cells more than 5 linear. 
Rhizome branched, red pustular, anther-cells 20 (2) B. multibrachiata 
Rhizome tuberous, brown tessellate; anther- 
cells ..(3) B. globosa 
