892 Orobanchaceae. 
in Ledeb. Flor. altaic. I, p. 458. — Stems solitary or fascicled, simple, 
stout, like the whole plant more or less glandular and cobwebby- 
pubescent, rarely glabrescent, up to 30 or 40cm high. Scales ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, entire or denticulate, 5—10 mm 
long. Spike cylindric, many-flowered, dense, rounded at the apex, 
up to 18 cm long. Bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acu- 
minate, up to 1 em long; bracteoles 0. Calyx split to the very 
base or almost so in front and on the back, 8—12 mm long, divisions- 
ovate, either entire or caudate-acuminate or more or less deeply 
bifid with usually unequal caudate-acuminate or acuminate teeth 
yellowish or blueish, sparingly glandular. Corolla 14—20 mm long, 
whitish and inflated below the insertion of the stamens, particularly 
alter flowering, moderately constricted and often bent at the middle, 
slightly widened upwards into the bluish throat; limb small; upper 
lip emarginate or 2-lobed; lobes crenulate with glabrous margins; 
lower lip equally 3-lobed; lobes rounded or subacute, otherwise like 
those of the upper lip. Stamens inserted just below the middle of 
the tube. Filaments glabrous, rarely sparsely glandular hairy; anthers, 
glabrous or sparingly hairy. Style glabrous or sparingly hairy; stigma 
2-lobed, white or whitish. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Abusir; Mariut; Alexandria-West and -Kast; Abukir. 
— M. p. Rosetta; el-Arish. — D. 1. D. i. D. a. sept. Not common 
as parasit on Xanthium strumarium, Hyoscyamus muticus, Lycium 
europaeum and Nicotiana glauca, 
Local name: dantn (Wilkins; Schweinfurth); dantn-el-adirr 
(Ascherson). 
Also known from Algeria, Tunisia, Cyrenaica, Spain, France, Italy. 
Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
1245. (6.) Orobanche crenata Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab. (1775). 
p. LVI and 113. — Beck Monogr. Orobanch. in Bibl. Bot. LV, p.225. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p. 118 no, 803. — Orobanche 
speciosa DC. Flor. Franc. VI, p. 393 not of Dietr. — Rehbch. Ie. XX, 
p. 91 tab. 161. — Orobanche grandiflora Bory and Chaub. Exped. 
de la Mor. Botan., p. 178 tab. 22. — Stems slender, solitary or 
fascicled rather simple, 50—70 cm high, or sometimes somewhat 
more, like the whole plant glandular-hairy or glabrescent, yellowish 
or bluish or violet, striate, in the lowest part sparingly squamate. 
Scales, especially the lowest ones crowded, distant higher up, laneceo- 
late, or somewhat ovate-lanceolate, sparingly or densely glandular- 
hairy 2—3 cm long, bracteoles 0. Spikes cylindrical many-flowered, 
acuminate or rotundate at the apex, usually rather loose, exept when 
young, with the lower flowers often remote. Calyx-parts distinet, 
ovate or rhomboid, bifid or bidentate; teeth small, long acuminate, 
