Chrislisonia.] 
Cl. OROBANCHACE 2 E. 
489 
2. CHRISTISONIA, Gardn. 
Dwarf parasitic fleshy herbs; stems tufted on a root stock. 
Flowers corymbose white (yellow or purple). Calyx tubular, 2- to 
5-lobed. Corolla long inflated, curved, 5-lobed. Stamens 4; 
anthers i-celled, 1 pair sometimes spurred. Style long; stigma 
large bilobed. Capsule ovoid or globose loculicidal. Species 12, 
tropical Asia. 
(1) C. Scortechinii Pram, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxxiii. (2), 
205; Ixxiv. 366. 
Whole plant about 6 in. tall buried in the ground with only 
the flowers showing, fleshy, white. Flowers 3 to 8, crowded in a 
corymb, pedicelled and sessile. Calyx spathaceous splitting into 
2 to 4 lobes, tube 1 in. long, lobes 25 in. long. Corolla-tube white 
with a yellow central bar *2 in. long, funnel-shaped, lower part 1 in. 
long, narrow cylindric, upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed. Stamens 
didynamous, all anthers connivent. Hab. In dense dark forests, 
rare. Perak (Scortechini); Batang Padang valley under bamboos 
(Ridley), 
