206 OROBANCHACEAE. ceuatocaux 



clusa, filamenta basi dilatata, antherae biloculares, lobis basi divergen- 

 tibus mucronatis. Ovarium glandula hypogyna obsoleta, uniloculare, 

 placentis parietalibns quatuor geminatim approximatis. Stylus indivisus, 

 stii!ma orbiculatum, superne obsolete bilobum, linea transversali depressa 

 notatum. Capsula unilocularis, incomplete bivalvis, valvis basi et apice 

 cohaerentibus, utrinque intra marginem placentam linearem gerentibus, 

 Semina numerosa scrobiculata. — Herba palaeogaea, super aliorum 

 stirpium radicibus parasitica: caule simplici squamato; floribus in bra- 

 ctearum axillis sessilibus solitariis. 



1. C. MACROLEPIS Coss. 1. c. p. 146. tab. 10. — Caulis erectus vel ascendens rectus fle- 

 xuosusve, 2 — 4 decimetr. longus simplex crassus flrmus, basi haud incrassatus vel 

 vix incrassatus, ibique squamis imbricatis obtectus, superius squamis Iatissimis ovatis 

 vel ovato-lanceolatis subimbricatis vesiitus, apice brevitur glanduloso-pubescens, atro- 

 rubens?, statu sicco rubro-rufescens. Bracteae amplissimae , ovatae vel ovalo-lanceo- 

 latae, calycem fere obtegentes. corolla breviores, pilis brevissimis glandulosis scabri- 

 dae, liaud ciliatae, striatae, statu sicco cbartaceae rubro - fuscescentes. Flores sub- 

 erecti in spicam elongatam dense congesti , spica saepius dimidium caulem obsidente, 

 floribus Orobanchis Rapi duplo longiores, ad faucem corollae atro - rubentes , tubo 

 antice colore luteo viridique ac in 0. cruenla variegato , stalu sicco rubro-rufescentes. 

 — Crescit ad radices Rosmarini officinalis et Micromeriae inodorae in montibus apricis 

 Catalauniae. 



IX. LATHKAEl linn. 



(Reuter in DC. Prodr. XI. 40. — Wiprs. Repert. III. 419. — Anojilanthi sect. 2. Wlprs. 



Repert. III. 481.) 



X. EPIPHEJUS Nutt. 



(Reuter in DC. Prodr. XI. 3. — Wlprs. Repert. III. 457. — Wght. Iilustr. of Ind. bot. II. 



t. 158b.) 



§. 4. Hyobancheae Wght. 

 Ovaritutn imperfecte biloculare. 



XI. HYOBAWCHE Tknbrg. 



(Bnth. in DC. Prodr. X. 505. — ^Wlprs. Repert. III. 482. — Wght. Illustr. of Ind. bot. II. 



t. 158 b.) 



XII. HAEUATOBA^CHE Prsl. 



(Prsl. Epimel. bot. 249.) 



Calyx tubulosus inaequaliter quinquefidus, laciniis linearibus obtusis. 

 Corolia tubulosa unilabiata recta, labio superiore obtuso bidentato, late- 

 raliter utrinque in lobulum obtusum dentiformem dilatato. Stamina 

 quatuor didynama exserta, filamentis planis, antheris unilocularibus 

 oblongis muticis obtusis, sub apice insertis, apice poro ovali dehiscentibus. 

 Ovarium ovale. Stylus teres, exsertus. Stigma globosum emarginato- 



