I _j.8 BROTÉRIA 



Alemtejo littoral: — Collina da margem esquerda do 

 Tejo (parasita da Thrincia hispida Rth., Daveau!). 



1£>. Orobanche mauretanica Beck 



Scapixs firmus, crassas, 12-60 cm. altas, dilute luteus, basim 

 versus roseus, interdum 7'iolascens, siccus fuscas, luteo- fu- 

 scas rei violaceo-fuscus, striatus, copiose glanduloso-pilosus, 

 serius miuus rillosus, demum interdum subglabrescens, inferne 

 valde incrassatus, saepe clavatus, imbricatim squamosus, su- 

 perne plerumque valde squamosus. 



Squamae inferiores ovato-lanceolatae vel rarius anguste lan- 

 ceolatae, superiores angustiores, 2-2,5 cm. longae, glanduloso- 

 pilosae, scapo accumbentes. 



Spica cylindracea, multi flora, 3-28 cm. longa, in ápice densa, 

 plerumque roiundata, interdum acuminata, inferne sublaxi- 

 flora, rarius tota laxa vel tota densijlora, rachi crasso 

 praedita. Flores erecto-patentes (in typo), interdum hori- 

 \ontaliter patentes, saepe in médio prone curvati, deflexi, 

 7 5-22 mm. (rarissime io-i5 mm.) longi. 



Bracteae longe lanceolato-acutae, rarius late ovato-acutae, cito 

 exsiccatae, demum dejlexae, fores aequantes vel superantes. 



Calicis partes liberae, vel antice coalescentes, parte media 

 aequaliter vel inaequaliter dentatae, rarius integrae vel dente 

 antico minuto, in basi lanceolatae, interdum ovato-lanceolatae ; 

 dentes plus minusve angusti, longe acuminati, in ápice raris- 

 sime filiformes, uninervii vel posticus subtrinervius, tubum 

 corollae longitudine subaequantes, glandulosopilosi, luteofusci 

 vel fusci, nervis atro-fuscis. 



Corolla tubulosa, supra parce vel sensim dilatata, extus parce 

 glanduloso-pilosa, in lábio superno interdum pilosa, raris- 

 sime glabra, sordide lutea, concolor, sicca luteofusca vel rarius 

 fusca, nervis fuscopurpur eis; linea dorsal is in basi cur- 

 vata, in médio parum curva vel subrecta, in lábio superno ul 

 phtrimum declivis vel abrupte arcuata; labium super ius ca- 

 rinatum, profunde bilobum, rarius integrum vel plicato-emar- 



