Orobanche. | XCIII, OROBANCHACE& (STAPF). 467 
or sparingly hairy ; stigma 2-lobed, white or whitish.—0O. cernua, Boiss. 
Fl. Or. iv. 514; Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 339, not of Loefl. 
0. curviflora, Viv. Pl. Aig. Dec. iv. 22, t. ii. fig. 17. 
Nile Land. Nubia: coast region, Bent! British Somaliland, Miss Edith 
Cole! Mrs. Lort Phillips! Golis Range, Drake Brockman, 161! 
Also in Socotra, Arabia, and throughout the Orient to North-western India. 
The typical form of O. cernua, Loefl. (Beck, l.c. 143) has smaller flowers and is more 
or less limited to South-west Europe. 
4. O. minor, Sutton in Trans. Linn. Soc. iv. 179. Stems solitary 
or fascicled, rather slender, simple, 4-20 in. high, like the whole plant 
more or less glandular-hairy. Scales crowded near the base, distant 
higher up, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 1-2 in. long. Spike cylindric, 
many- or (in weak specimens) few-flowered, usually rather loose, except 
when young, with the lower flowers often remote, up to more than 1 ft. 
long. Bracts like the scales, but more acuminate ; bracteoles 0. Calyx 
divided to the very base in front and on the back; divisions ovate to 
ovate-lanceolate, entire and long caudate-acuminate or 2-toothed, up to 
% in. long, l-nerved. Corolla up to 3 in. long, yellow with purplish 
veins towards the limb, tubular, slightly constricted at the middle ; 
upper lip 2-lobed or emarginate ; lower lip equally or subequally 3-lobed ; 
all the lobes rounded, plicate crenulate-dentate, glabrous along the 
margin. Stamens inserted 1-1} lin. above the base; filaments more 
or less hairy, at least below ; anthers usually puberulous. Style mostly 
glandular-hairy ; stigma 2-lobed, lurid-purple.—Sowerb. & Smith, Engl. 
Bot. vi. t. 422; Reuter in DC. Prodr. xi. 29 ; Reichb. Pl. Crit. vii. 30, 
t. 652-3 Reichb. fil. Ie. #1. Germ. xx. 103, t. 1804; “Boiss. FI. 
Or. iv. 512; Beck, Monogr. Orob. in Bibl. Bot. iv. 251, t. iv. fig. 82. 0. 
abyssinica, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 137. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Aidereso, 4100 ft., Schweinfurth, 1416! 1436! near 
Acrur, 6300 ft., Schweinfurth, 1050! Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon & Petit ! Plow- 
den! Parkyns ! Schimper! Uganda: Ruwenzori ; cultivated land, 6000-7000 ft., 
Scott-Elliot, 7819! between Eldama Ravine and Mau, 7000-7500 ft., Whyte / 
Unryoo ; Bugoma, Dawe, 750! 
Mozamb, Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 4000-6000 ft., Volkens, 
545! Johnston ! Usambara, Buchwald, 453! Portuguese East Africa : mountains 
east of Lake Nyasa, Johnson ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; between Mandala 
and Kibana, Scott ! between Kondowe and Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! Nyika 
Mountains, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Tanganyika Plateau at Fort Hill, Whyte / 
Imperfectly known species. 
5. O Schultzii, forma pyramidalis, Beck, Monogr. Orob. in 
Bibl. Bot. iv. 112. Stems slender, simple, 4-24 in. long, bulbously 
thickened at the base, glandular-hairy. Scales numerous, ovate or 
narrowly rhomboid, acuminate, or the upper ovate-lanceolate, denticulate 
towards the base, 24-5 lin. long. Inflorescence spicate or usually sub- 
Spicate and tufted at top, many-flowered, cylindric, dense, elongate and 
acuminate, the lowest flowers often distinctly pedicelled ;_ bracts lanceo- 
late, reaching to the tips of the calyx-teeth ; bracteoles slightly shorter, 
