488 
C. SCROPHULARIACE^E. 
[Scop aria. 
(i) S. dulcis Linn. Sp. PI. 116 ; Prain, l.c. 362. 
A bushy herb woody below, about 2 ft. tall. Leaves lanceolate 
serrate narrowed to base, glabrous, 1 to 2 in. long, -5 in. '.vide or 
more. Flowers numerous, sub-panicled; pedicels slender, *25 in. 
long. Sepals 4, oblong. Corolla white, *12 in. across. Capsule 
globose, *15 in. through. Hah. A common weed in waste ground, 
dispersed by cattle and buffaloes, who eat it and scatter the seeds 
m the dung. Common all over the peninsula wherever cattle can 
go. Native of America. Now common in Africa and Malay islands. 
Not in any of the earliest collections but abundant before 1888, 
even far up the Pahang River. It was collected in India in 1843’ 
Native names: Te’Macao; Dulis; Cha Padang; Bunga Baik 
Salam. Use : Medicinal. 
Order Cl. OROBANCHACE2E. 
Fleshy leafless parasitic white, brown or yellowish herbs. 
Stems clothed with scale-leaves. Flowers solitary or racemed, 
irregular. Sepals 4 to 5 connate in a spathaceous tube. Corolla 
2-hpped lower lip 3-lobed, tube curved. Stamens 4, didynamous 
on corolla-tube; anther cells spurred. Ovary i-celled; ovules 
numerous; style long, tip curved; stigma bilobed. Capsule 
i-celled, 2-valved (Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxxiv. extra number 
304). Species 160, whole world. 
Calyx spathaceous split to base; corolla campanulate . 
Calyx tubular 2-to 5-lobed; corolla funnel-shaped 
1. jEginetia 
2. Christisonia 
1. iEGINETIA, Linn. 
Parasites with simple (or branched) stems, naked or scaly, 
blowers few large solitary or corymbose. Calyx spathaceous split 
in front nearly to base. Corolla curved campanulate tubular 
limb 2-lipped, upper lobes connate. Stamens 4, included didyn- 
amous; anthers i-celled; lower pair spurred. Ovary i-eelled; 
style slender; stigma large peltate. Capsule partly bivalved 
Seeds many minute. Species 3, Indo-Malaya, China. 
(1) IE. pedunculata Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 13, t. 2io* Prain 
lx. 365. (Fig. 120, p. 489.) 
Stems red or yellow, 3 to 6 in. tall; scapes several. Flowers 
several, on peduncles 1 to 4 in. long. Bracts ovate blunt. Calyx 
t-5 to 2 in. long, pink at length white. Corolla 3 in. long, mouth 
2 m. wide, yellow or white, lobes violet or claret colour crenate 
and erose. Capsule ovoid. Hah. Forests, rare. Perak, Batang 
Va r y a c 2000 £• altitude ( Wra y)- India, 
Cambodia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 
