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Fhelipaea lias tlms been applied to plants of widely different 

 appearance, sncli as the brilliant solitary-flowered Plielipaeas of 

 the Orient, the stately Ci^tanches of the xVtlantic flora and the 

 more commonplace Orobanches allied to 0. aegyptiaca. 



The species of Phelipaea — Tournefort's I\ orientalis, fiure 



coccineo, was nndoubtedly collected in Armenia, most likely in 

 the neighbourhood of Erzerum, and it has since repeatedly been 

 ■collected near there and in Russian Armenia and Turkish 

 Kurdistan. A second species was discovered by Giildenstedt in 

 1772 in Xachetia, probably near Tiflis, and subsequently (1796) 

 by Marschall von Bieberstein on the north side of the Caucasus 

 and in Daghestan. It was considered to be identical with 

 Tournefort's plant, and ^larschall's name Orohanche coccinca was 

 intended to cover the Armenian and Caucasian plant. It is true 

 that Willdenow (Sp. Plant, iii. (1800) p. 35-1) quoted Tournefort's 

 synonym with a query under Orohanclie coccinca; but he added 

 Saltem convenit figura floris Phelypaea in Institutionibus rei 

 herbariae t. 479 exacte cum planta nostra/^ Poiret four years 

 later (Encycl. Meth. vol. v. p. 2G8) mentions Tournefort's 

 Phelipaea onentalis, flare coccineo (without reference to the 

 figure on t. 479) as a possible synonym of P. hdea, but he also 

 says ^^ Je soupgonne que la pi ante A de Tournefort n'est qu'une 

 variete de celle-ci (P. lutea) a fleurs d'un rouge pourpre.^ II 

 faudroit d'ailleurs, pour prononcer sur cette espece, des details 

 qui nous manquent," and under P. coccinea 'Te^ 



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qui nous mauqueut 



Tournefort, que nous avons rapportee a la pi ante precedence, 



mais avec <loute, n'a pas moms de rapports avec colle-ci/' 



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aines, on the oilier hand, was more definite on this point, 

 arks in Choix de plantes du Corollaire (p. 17), " II est 



tres-douteux que cette plaute soit la menie qneVOiohanclie 

 coccinea de M. Willdenow, dont la tige, d'apres la description 

 qu'il en a donuee, est garnie de feuiUes ecartees, et dont les 

 decoupures de la corolle ont une forme ovale. Le Phelipaea de 

 Tournefort a les tiges nues et les divisions de la corolle _sont 

 circulaires et non ovales." Lambert, in 1810, having examined 

 the Caucasian and Crimean specimens in Pallas' Herbarium, 

 decided that the Armenian and the Eussian plants represent two 

 distinct species, for tlie latter of which he proposed the name 

 Phehpnea fohata, and for the former P. Tournefortii In a 

 contribution to the Dictionnaire des Sciences ^atureiles, vol. 

 ...v...^. (1826) p. 466, Poiret accepted Lambert s_ view, but 

 claimed the nanfe coccinca exclusively for the Caucasian plant m 

 preference to foliata. Then in 1831, altlnnigh aware of Lam- 

 bert's name, C. A. Meyer (^erzeic^m Maiiz Cauc p. 104 

 introduced vet another name, namely, Jhcherstemu {Anoplon 

 Bichersteinii) which was preserved by Renter in his monoginph 

 of the Orohanchaceae in De Caudolle's Prodromiis vol. xi. 1840 

 p. 42 (Anoplanthus Biohcrsteinii). Meanwhile ^^^^P^^ "/^ ^.^j;^ 



had once more united the Armenian <'^^i,f:«^^^.^^^^^^l^J^\^/!,;;;\| 

 one species as Anoplnnthus cocci.eu.. This view was accepte 



by Boissier in Flora Orientalis, vol, iv (18.0 p. f ^;^"* ^^^^^ 

 tiiis modification that he at the same time split off ^^ ^ ^« " ^ 

 fortian plant as var. pedunrvlans and a form collected b^ 



