466 XCIII. OROBANCHACE# (STAPF). [ Orobainche. 
2. O. Muteli, Schultz in Mutel, Fl. Franc. ii. 353, & Atl. t. 43, 
Jig. 314; Suppl. t. 2, fig. 5. Stem slender, branched, rarely simple, 
4-10 in. high, like the whole plant more or less glandular-hairy. 
Scales ovate to lanceolate, 2}—5 lin. long, sometimes almost glabrous. 
Inflorescence spicate or the 1owest flowers distinctly pedicelled, many- 
flowered, usually rather loose ; bracts oblong-ovate to lanceolate, acute, 
3—Dlin. long; bracteoles Jinear-subulate, usually exceeding the calyx-tube. 
Calyx 4-5 lin. long, firmly membranous with more or less prominent 
nerves, divided to about the middle into 4 triangular or lanceolate, 
acuminate or caudate-acuminate, 3-nerved teeth. Corolla pallid below, 
otherwise blueish or lilac, 9-10 lin. long ; tube constricted about 3-4 lin. 
above the base, then widened into the funnel-shaped throat, which is 
about 2} lin. across, dorsal outline more or less curved; upper lip 2-lobed, 
porrect lobes rounded ; lower lip with 3 subequal, rotundate, crenulate- 
dentate or repand, ciliolate lobes. Filaments 3} lin. long, glabrous or 
slightly hairy at the base; anthers glabrous or slightly villous at the 
base. Style glabrous or sparingly glandular-hairy; stigma almost 
funnel-shaped, obscurely 2-lobed, whitish or yellowish.—Schultz in 
Flora, 1847, 67, 168; Beck, Monogr. Orobanch. in Bibl. Bot. iv. 95, t. 1, 
fig. 13 (3) (vars. 8 3, Promunturit and e typica)  Phelipea ramosa, 
Harvey, Gen. 8. Afr. Pl. ed. ii. 274, not of C. A. Meyer; var. Muteli, 
Boiss., Fl. Or. iv. 499. P. Muteli, Reuter in DC. Prodr. xi. 8, partly; 
Reichb. fil. Ic, Fl. Germ. xx. 89, t. 1771. P. Hohenackeri, Reuter in DC. 
Prodr. xi, 10. P. reuteriana, Reichenb. f. l.c. xx. 117, t. 1839, fig. 1- 
Phelipanche Mutelii, Pomel, Nouv. Mater. Fl. Atl. 106. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Habab, Hildebrandt, 511, partly. French Somaliland : 
Gulf of Tajura, Lord ! 
Very common throughout the Mediterranean region ; parasitic on Composite, 
Leguminosae, Ladiata, Ke. 
3. O. cernua, var. Desertorum, Beck, Monogr. Orob. in Bibl. 
Bot. iv. 142, t. ii. fig. 33 (2). Stems solitary or fascicled, simple, stout, 
like the whole plant more or less glandular and cobwebby-pubescent, 
rarely glabrescent, up to 16 in. high. Scales ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, entire or denticulate, 24-5 lin. long. Spike 
cylindric, many-flowered, dense, rounded at the apex, up to 8 in. long. 
Bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, up to } in. long: 
bracteoles 0. Calyx split to the very base or almost so in front and on 
the back, 4-5 lin. long, divisions ovate, either entire or caudate- 
acuminate or more or less deeply bifid with usually unequal caudate- 
acuminate or acuminate teeth, yellowish or blueish, sparingly glandular. 
Corolla 73-9 lin. long, whitish and inflated below the insertion of the 
stamens, particularly after flowering, moderately constricted and often 
bent at the middle, slightly widened upwards into the blueish throat; 
limb small; upper lip emarginate or 2-lobed; lobes crenulate with 
glabrous margins; lower lip equally 3-lobed; lobes rounded or sub- 
acute, otherwise like those of the upper lip. Stamens inserted Just 
below the middle of the tube. Filaments glabrous, rarely sparsely 
glandular hairy ; anthers glabrous or sparingly hairy. Style glabrous 
