CXXVII. BALANOPHORACEiE. 
Balanophora.] 
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or oblong, blunt. Flower spike lax, 2 to 3-5 in. long. Flowers 
sessile, -25 in. across, outer lobes 2, transverse oblong; inner 2 
linear-oblong, much smaller, yellow. Stamen-column white, cells 
linear, very numerous. Hab. Dense forests at 3000 or 4000 ft. 
altitude. Selangor, Menguang Gasing (Kloss). Perak, Ulu Batartg 
Padang, parasitic on a big liane (Ridley). 
(5) B. insularis Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. xlv. 218. 
Rhizome 2 in. through, nodular warted. Stems 1 or more with 
a small volva split into 4 or 5 round lobes at base, 3 to 3*5 in. 
long, slender, lemon-yellow. Scale-leaves oblong-linear, blunt, 
*5 to *75 in. long, *25 in. wide. Spike with scattered male flowers 
at base; tip ovoid ellipsoid female. Male flowers very small. 
Sepals oblong-truncate, upper and lower ones larger than lateral 
ones. Stamen-head transversely oblong, cells 7 to 8, hexagonal. 
Female flowers shortly stalked with numerous obovate spadicels. 
Ovary obovoid. Seed dust-like. Hab. Pahang, Pulau Aur (Feild- 
ing). Perak, Lenggong (Ridley). Distrib. Christmas Island. 
2 . RHOPALOCNEMIS, Jungh. 
Fleshy parasitic rhizomatous herbs. Spikes unisexual, sessile 
or stalked, no scale leaves. Flowers very numerous, minute and 
