﻿422 OEOBANCHACE^ (Hiern & Stapf). [Orohanehe. 



median plane ; valves often cohering by the persistent style. Seeds 

 very numerous, subglobose, minute ; testa foveolate ; embryo of a 

 few cells embedded in the endosperm. 



Parasitic plants, usually more or less covered with gland-tipped papillose 

 hairs ; stems succulent, simple or branched ; flowers bracteate, with or without 

 bracteoles, spicate or racemose. 



The principal genus of the Order. None of the species, mentioned in Drege's 

 Zwei PJlansengeogr. Documente, as of Orohanehe, belong to the genus. 



Orolanche minor, Thunb. Prodr. 97, and Fl, Cap. ed. Schult. i54; non 

 Sutton ; is unknown to me. 



In his monograph of Orohanehe, pp. 97, Beck points out a form or variety 

 " Promunturii" oi 0. Muteli, Schultz, as occurring in the Hantam Mountains 

 with the additional note " introducta ?." He does not quote the collector's 

 name, and there is nothing in the description to trace it. At Kew there are no 

 specimens of 0. Muteli from the Cape, and it is probable that the Hantam 

 plant is 0. ramosa, from which 0. Muteli differs merely in the larger flowers 

 (9-10 lin. long) and the more inflated corolla-throat. 



1. 0. ramosa (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 633) ; scape pale yellow, 

 sparingly branched or quite simple, rather slender, scaly, 3-7 in. 

 high or more, nearly glabrous below, more or less viscid-pilose above ; 

 scales usually few, ovate, obtuse, i-f in. long or more, nearly 

 glabrous or glandular ; spike rather lax or sometimes comparatively 

 dense, many-flowered, usually elongated ; flowers i-f in. long, 

 glandular-puberulous, the upper sessile, lower shortly pedunculate ; 

 bracts ovate, pointed, puberulous, rather shorter than the calyx ; 

 bracteoles sublinear, acute, pilose-puberulous ; calyx campanulate, 

 4.cleft half-way down, i-| in. long ; lobes triangular-ovate or 

 lanceolate, acuminate, nerved ; corolla tubular, pallid yellowish 

 below, lilac or blue above ; tube a little contracted above the ovary, 

 curved above, gradually widened towards the throat ; limb \ in. in 

 diam. ; upper lip 2-lobed ; lobes very broad, subacute ; lower lip 

 tripartite ; lobes subequal, subquadrate, subentire, and about yV '°- 

 long and broad ; filaments inserted about the contracted part of the 

 corolla-tube, glabrous or slightly villous at the base ; anthers usually 

 glabrous ; cells cuspidate-acuminate at the apex ; style glabrous, 

 tV in. long, recurved near the apex ; stigma dilated, subpatelliform, 

 somewhat lobed. Smith, Ertijl. Bot. iii. t. 184 ; Thunh. Prodr. 97, 

 and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 454; Beichenh. PL Grit. vii. t. 626, Jig- 

 933-934 • Meuter in DC. Prodr. xi. 8 ; Beck, Monogr. Orohan. in 

 Bibl. Bot. iv. 87, t. I, fig. 10. 0. ramosa, var. interrupta, Beck, I.e., 

 89. 0. squamosa, var. interrupta, Pers. Syn. ii. 181. Phelipm 

 ramosa, C. A. Meyer, Verz. PL Cauc. 104 : Beichenh. fiL Icon. xx. 

 88, t. 1773. 



Coast Eegion 



bosch, Zeyheri 



A native of South and Central Europe and North Africa, elsewhere intro- 

 duced, parasitic on hemp, tobacco and tomato plants and numerous other 

 species, ^ 



