Orobanche. 889) 
cence spicate or the lowest flowers pedicelled, many-flowered, at 
length elongated and loose; bracts ovate-oblong to lanceolate, acute. 
5'/,—8'/, mm long; bracteoles linear-subulate, usually exceeding 
the calyx-tube. Calyx 8—i0 mm long, firmly membranous with 
prominent nerves, divided to about the middle into 4 triangular 
acuminate or caudate-acuminate 3-nerved teeth. Corolla pale yellow 
with a bluish limb, 10'/,—14'/, mm long; tube constricted about 
5—8 mm above the base. thin and whitish below, gradually and 
moderately widened above the constriction into the throat, which is 
about 2'/, —5 mm across, dorsal outline gently curved; upper lip 
2-lobed, porrect, lobes very broad, subacute; lower lip with 3 sub- 
equal, rotundate, entire or repand, cilate lobes. Filaments about 
5—5'/, mm long, glabrous or slightly villous at the base: anthers 
glabrous or with a few cilia at the base. Style glabrous or with a 
few gland-tipped hairs; stigma funnel-shaped, obscurely 3—4-lobed, 
whitish or bluish. — Flow. January to February. 
M.ma. Alexandria-West and -Hast. — N.d. N.f. N. v. Common 
as a parasit on tomato, and tobacco plants and numerous other plants. 
Local name: haltk. 
Common throughout South and Central Europe, North-Eastern, Tropical 
and Southern Africa. 
1241. (2.) Orobanche Schweinfurthii Beck Monogr. Orobanch. 
in Bibl. Bot. IV (1890), p. 94, fig. 12 — Stem slender, branched, 
usually from the base, rarely simple, yellowish, up to more than 
15 cm high, like the whole plant more or less glandular-hairy. 
Scales ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 5—7 mm long, sometimes almost 
glabrous. Inflorescence spicate or the lowest flowers pedicelled, 
many-flowered at length elongated and loose; bracts lanceolate to 
oblong-lanceolate acute, shorter than the calyx-tube; bracteoles lanceo- 
late to oblong-lanceolate often oblong, shorther than the calyx-tube. 
Calyx 6—10 mm long, long and copiously glandular-hairy, firmly 
membranous with prominent nerves, divided to about the middle into 
4 triangular acuminate or caudate-acuminate 3-nerved teeth, three 
times shorter than the corolla. Corolla pale yellow or whitish; tube 
constricted about 2—6 mm above the base, thin and whitish below, 
oradually and moderately widened above the constriction into the 
throat, which is about 2—5 mm across, dorsal outline gently curved; 
upper lip deeply 2-lobed, porrect, lobes small, denticulate. Filaments 
inserted in the constricted part of the corolla, glabrous, never slightly 
villous at the base as in Orobanche ramosa,; anthers large, glabrous 
never ciliated at the base, shortly acuminate, three times shorter 
than the filaments. Style slightly glandular-hairy; stigma somewhat 
