Orobanche.] CIV. OROBANCHACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 327 
the stem narrowed upwards, bracts ovate caudate-acuminate shorter than 
the corolla-tube, calyx half the length of the corolla-tube, lobes slender subu- 
late from a broad base, corolla pubescent without and within, tube narrow, 
lobes blue ciliate, filaments. glabrous, anthers sparsely crinite or glabrous. 
Heichb. Pl. Crit. 933, 934, and Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 152. Phelipwa ramosa, 
C. A. Mey. ; Walp. Rep. ii. 459; Reut. in DC. Prodr. xi. 8; Wight Ic. 
t. 1618. P. ægyptiaca, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
KasnuwiE, Falconer; Jamu and Banahal, alt. 6-7000 ft., T'homson.—DISTRIB. 
Westwards to Europe and N. Africa. 
Stem 6-12 in., usually thick at the base and at once dividing into rather slender 
erect branches. Scales few. Spikes lax-fld.; bracts variable in length and in the 
length of the slender point; bracteoles filiform. Corolla 1-3 in. long ; tube narrow 
white.—The slender spikes occupying usually two-thirds of the length of the plant 
are unlike those of any other Indian species. I suspect that O. egyptiaca, Pers., is 
the same as this, but I have seen no authentic specimens of it. Boissier refers O. indica, 
Roxb., to O. egyptiaca, I think erroneously. 
** Calyx divided to the base anteriorly and posteriorly; segments bifid, 
lobes subulate. 
ll. O. psila, Clarke mss.; furfuraceously pubescent, stem simple 
slender, spike short lax-fld., bracts lanceolate as long as the flower, calyx 
half as long as the corolla blue curved pubescent without and within, lobes 
copiously ciliate, filaments pubescent, anthers sparsely crinite. 
KASHMIR; at Mapanon, alt. 9000 ft., Clarke. . 
Stem 12-18 in., as thick as a goose-quill or less. Scales long, 3-1 in., subulate- 
lanceolate. Spike 2-3 in., obtuse; lower bracts $ in. long; bracteoles filiform. 
Corolla 4—3 in. long, lobes almost villous within, 2 upper rounded, 2 lower elliptic. 
5. BOSCHNIACKIA, C. 4. Mey. 
Robust, brown, leafless herbs; stem simple, scaly. Flowers in dense 
spikes, or racemes, bracteolate, ebracteolate. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate or 
unequally 5-toothed. Corolla-tube incurved; limb 2-lipped, upper lip erect 
hooded entire or 2-fid; lower very short, 3-lobed. Stamens subexserted ; 
anther-cells equal, parallel, bases obtuse. Ovary ]-celled; placentas a 
2-partite ; stigma dilated, broadly 2-lobed. Capsule 2-valved, valves at first 
cohering with the style. Seeds numerous, minute, ellipsoid, subglobose or 
compressed, testa reticulate.— Species 5, N.E. Asia, N.W. America and the 
Himalaya. 
B. himalaica, Hook. f. § Thoms. Herb. Ind. Or.; calyx truncate 
quite entire, flowers 3 in. long, upper lip of corolla cymbiform entire, lateral 
lobes of lower minute subulate median obsolete, capsules $-l in., seeds 
orbicular, testa very lax loosely reticulate. ` 
; l an 
TEMPERATE and SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, on Rhododendron roots; Garwba 
Kumaon, alt. 8-10,000 ft., Strach. & Winterb.; Sikkim, alt. 10—13,000 ft., J. D. H., 
Clarke. . 
Plant 6-18 in. high, pale brown, base tuberous; stem often as thick as the thumb. 
Scales numerous, rigid, 4-3 in., oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute. Racemes 
3-8 in., stout, dense-fld., pale ochreous brown streaked with red brown ; bracts 
3-3 in, broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, half as long as the flower or longer; pedicels 
4-4 in. stout. Calya-limb quite entire. Corolla puberulous, erect, nearly straight. 
Stamens finally exserted, filaments glabrous except at the very base yellow ; anthers 
small, blueish. Ovary with 2 or 3 placentas, each with revolute divisions covered kn 
ovules, Capsule ovoid-oblong, thickly coriaceous, irregularly 2-8-valved; pedice 
