164 LENTIBULARIACE^. [ Oeobanche. 



than the corolla, cleft to the middle ; segments lanceolate, cuspidate ; 

 bracteoles none. Corolla |-J in. long, carved outwards, glabrous or 

 Borne times puberulous above ; lobes crenate, not ciliate, the 2 upper 

 broad ; the 3 lower ovate, acuminate. Filaments glabrous ;_ anther- 

 cells acuminate, glabrous or slightly hairy. Style glabrous ; atigmatic- 

 lobes short, thick. 

 Oudh (Wallich). Distrib. W. Himalaya from Nepal to Kashmir, 

 Baltistan and Gilgit up to 12,C00 ft.; also in Bengal, C. India and C. 

 Provinces to S. India, extending to N. Africa and Spain, occurring also 

 in extra-tropical Australia. 



2. O. segyptiaca, Per?. Syn. ii, 181 ; Royle III. 181; Cooke Fl. Bomb, 

 ii, 314. O. indica, Buch.-Bam. in Roxb. Fl. Incl. Hi, 27; F. B. I. iv, 

 326 ; Watt E. B. ; Prain Beng, PI. 779. 



Stems 4-20 in. high, usually branching from the bass. Scales few, 

 lanceolata, often slightly hairy. Flowers many, sessile or the lowest 

 shortly stalked and forming a rather lax spike ; bracts half as long as 

 the coroila-tube, ovate or lanceolate ; bracfceoles ^filiform, shorter than 

 the calyx. Calyx § in. lorg, 4-toolhed, campanulate, pubescent, sub- 

 membranous ; teeth about equalling the tube, lanceolate from a broad 

 base, strongly nerved down the middle. Corolla f-1^ in. long, hairy 

 outside, upper portion blue or lilac, whitish below; upper lip 2-lobed, 

 lower equally 3-lobed ; tube slightly curved above, constricted above 

 the insertion of the stamens. Filaments hairy at the base, anthei'3 

 woolly. Capsule oblong, acuminate, glabrous. 



Abundant within the area, parasitic on various cultivated plants, often 

 in mustard fields. Distrib. more or less throughout the plains of 

 India, extending to C?ntral and W. Asia. Cattle appear to be fond 

 of this plant, and their milk is said to be improved thereby. 



LXXXI— LENTIBULARIACEiE. 



Herbs aquatic or in wet places, often insectivorous. Leaves 

 i-osulate, capillary -multi fid or obsolete when submerged. Flowers 

 purple blue or white, irregular, hermaphrodite, arranged on 1-many- 

 flowered simple or branched scapes or peduncles ; bracts small or 

 none, bracteoles 2 or none. Calyx inferior, 2-5-lobed. Corolla 2 

 lipped, spurred ; upper lip usually the smaller, entire or emarginate, 

 lower ; -5-lobed. Stamens 2. attached to the base of corolla, alternate 

 with lobe of lower lip ; filaments curved, anthers 2-celled ; cells diverg- 

 ing, transversely confluent. Ovary superior, 1-celled, style short, 

 stigma unequally 2 lobed ; ovules usually many, anatropous, attached 

 to a free basal placenta. Fruit a globose few- or many-seeded capsule, 



