﻿PRODROMUS 

 SYSTEMATIS UNIYERSALIS 



REGNI VEGETABILIS. 



Ordo CXLIV (1). OROBANCHACE^E (2) Lindley inlroduct. 

 ed. 2 p. 287. Veg. Mngd. p. 609. — Orobancheee L. C. 

 Richard in Pers. enchir. 2.p. 180. Juss. in Ann. Mus. xn. 

 p. 445. — Orobanch. gener. Wallr. oiauxeuvi Francof. 1825. 

 p. 28. Baril. ord. nat. 173. C. A. Mey. in Ledeb. Jl. 

 alt. 2. p. 287. Endl. gen. pl.125. Meisn. gen.pl. vasc. 

 diagn. p. 314. — Orobanchinee (Personatarum sectio ) Link 

 handb. I. p. 506. — Orobanchideee Dumort. anal. fam. 

 p. 23. . 



Flores hermaphroditi , rarissime unisexuales , irregulares. Ca- 

 lyx liber, persistens , 4-5-sepalus ; sepalis in calycem gamosepa- 

 lum 4-5-fidum, vel per paria in partes laterales apice integras vel 

 bifidas coalitis. Corolla gamopetala, hypogyna, pentamera vel 

 lobis supremis coalitis tetramera , supra basin circumscissa 

 emarcida persistens, eestivatione imbricata, tubo tubuloso vel 

 campanulato plus minus arcuato , limbo subregulari vel saepissime 

 bilabiato , labiis ineequalibus , superiore integro galeato vel plus 

 minus emarginato bilobo , inferiore trifido , ad faucem seepissime 

 biplicato bigibboso, plicaturis glabrisvillosisve. Stamina 4, didy- 

 nama, tubo corollee inserta. Antheree biloculares, persistentes , 

 loculis basi sspiuscalcarato-cuspidatis rima longitudinali vel poro 

 oblongo basi dehiscentibus. Ovarium liberum, disco carnoso uni- 

 ' laterali seepius obsoleto aut in glandulam anticam producto cinc- 

 -tum, uniloculare , placentis parietalibus utroque latere ovarii 

 geminis distinc'is aut geminatim coalitis, vel placentis duabus 

 e pariete porrectis late bilobis. Placentse erga axim inflorescentiee 

 laterales. Ovula plurima, rarissime pauca , anatropa , funiculis 

 brevibus vel interdumlongiusculis. Stylus terminalis, simplex , 

 persistens vel deciduus, apice inflexus vel rarissime rectus. 



(1) Coiivolvulacuie, iu vni. 9, niimernm CXXXVU pro CXXXVIII erroro liabuerunt; indc 

 Ericylioto ordo CXXXIX , llni rii^iuciu CXL , Hydrolcaceic CXM, Solanaccu; (nondum cdila?) 

 CXLII , Scropliulariaceic CXI.III ct Orohauchacca: CXLIV. 



(2) Auciorc cl. Rcuter, Gcncvcnsi, licrb. Boissier cusiodc. 



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