Orobanche. 891 
culata Walp. Rep. Il, p. 459. — Orobanche indica Buchanan in 
Roxb. Flor. Ind. I, p. 27. — Phelipaea ramosa var. grandiflora 
Ledeb. Flor. ross. III, p. 313. — Phelipanche aegyptiaca Pomel Nouv. 
Mat. Flor. Atlant., p. 107. — Orobanche Delilei Decsne. in Ann. 
Scienc. Natur. 2. sér. IV, p. 201. — Orobanche ramosa Delile Ilustr. 
Fl. d’Eg. not of Linn. — Phelipaea Delilei Walp. Rep. Bot. Il, p.459. 
— Phelipaea pulchella C. A. Mey. in EHichw. Plant. Casp., p. 17, 
tab. XVII. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 496. — Stem slender, branched, 
rarely simple, 15—50 cm high, like the whole plant more or less 
glandular-hairy. Scales lanceolate slightly glandular hairy or glabres- 
cent, 5mm to 1,5 cm long. Inflorescence spicate or the lowest 
flowers distinctly pedicelled, many-flowered usually rather loose; bracts 
lanceolate, glandular-hairy, obscurely-coloured; bracteoles narrow, 
shorter than the calyx. Calyx shortly campanulate, 4-toothed, some- 
what membranous; teeth lanceolate-subulate from the base, as long 
as or longer than the tube pale yellow, with more or less prominent 
nerves. Corolla large 3 to 3,7 cm long, about the insertion of the 
stamens constricted, then widened into the funnel-shaped throat, 
outside glandular-hairy, bluish or violet; upper lip porrect, curvate 
and carinate in back, bilobed, with rotundate or acute laciniae; 
lower-lip equally trilobate; lobes large, orbiculate or ovate, rotundate 
at the tip, rarely acuminate, irregularly crenulate at the margin, 
rarely denticulate, densely pilose. Filaments inserted, in the con- 
stricted part of the corolla mostly 6 mm above the base in the lowest 
part sparingly pilose, in the upper part glandular-hairy or nearly 
glabrous. Anthers distinct, at the base densely lanuginose-pilose, 
acuminate, whitish. Ovary ellipsoidal. Style shortly densely glan- 
dular-hairy; stigma bilobed with hemispherical lobes, whitish. Cap- 
sule as long as the calyx-teeth, glabrous bivalved. — Flow. November 
to March. 
M. ma. Mamarica; Matruqa; Abusir; Mariut; Alexandria-West 
and -Kast; Mandara; Abukir. — N. v. Siut; Luksor. 
Local name: halik rihy (Forsk.). 
Also known from other parts of the Mediterranean region and Asia. 
1244. (5.) Orobanche cernua Loefl. Iter hispan. (1758), p. 152. 
— Rchbch. Ic. Flor. Germ. XX, p.107 tab. 187. — Beck Monogr. 
Orobanch. in Bibl. Bot. IV, p. 142. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 514. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.118 no. 805. — Aschers. Flor. 
Rhinocol., p. 802 no.197. — Orobanche curviflora Viv. Plant. Aeg. 
Dec., p. 22 tab. 2 fig. 17. — Orobanche pogonanthera Reut. in DC. 
Prodrom. XI, p.33. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 515. — Orobanche 
Berthelotii Webb and Berth. Phyt. Canar. III, p. 155. — Orobanche 
media Desf. Flor. Atlant. II, p.59. — Orobanche bicolor C. A. Mey. 
