604 OROBANCflACEiE. (bROOM-RAPE FAMILY.) 



ringent. Cells of anthers mucrouate at base. Ovary 1 -celled, with 4 

 parietal placentae in pairs. Stigma retuse or bilobed. Capsulelateral- 

 ly dehiscent, valves adherent at base and apex. Seeds reticulate. 



* Filaments inserted on loicer fourth of corolla-tube. 

 t Stigma yelloio. 

 1. O. Aiiatolica, Boiss. et Rent. If .2 to .4, scape, scales, 

 bracts, and calyx more or less cohwebhy ; stem thick, beset with ovate, 

 acute, imbricated scales ; spike dense, oblong-cylindrical. Bracts ob- 

 long-lanceolate, about as long as corolla ; sepals many-nerved, ovate, 

 bilobed, half as long as corolla, coalesced in fruit ; corolla leathery, 

 short-campanulate, little curved, deep purple, glandular, upper lip 

 galeate, lower with short, obtuse lobes ; filaments inserted at base of 

 corolla, hairy, rarely glabrous below — May to July — Amanus, and 

 northward. 



Var. s^labrcsceii§, Post, Glabrescent — Marash. 



2. O. Palae§tina, Rent. If .3 to .4, sparingly papillose ; spike 

 long, loose. Bract oblong below, linear-subulate above, longer than 

 corolla ; sepals few-nerved, oblong, entire or bifid, with linear-subulate 

 lobes, longer than corolla-tube ; corolla whitish, tubular, slightly curv- 

 ed, with small, nearly equal lips, the upper subulate, the middle lobe of 

 the lower rather longer ; filaments inserted a quarter the way up the 

 corolla-tube, hairy at base — Spring — Shechem and Banias to Marash. 



• 1 1 Stigma violet, purple, or white. 



3. O. §pecio§a, DC © Khaniq-ul-Kirsennah. .15 to .5, crisp- 

 glandular-hairy, often quite tall, spike long, loose below. Bract 

 lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, a little longer than corolla-tube ; sepals 

 5-nervcd, as long as corolla-tube, bifid. Corolla bell-shaped, white striped 

 with light purple, papery and brownish when dry, filaments inserted 

 near base of corolla, pubescent at base. Stigma lurid — January to 

 April — On Vicia, Ervum, Faba, and many other plants. The com- 

 monest species of the genus. 



4. O. pubesceu§, Urv. 2^ .B to .4:, crisp white-icoolly ; spikes 

 long, rather dense. Flowers small ; bract ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 as long as corolla ; sepals 2- co-nerved, entire or bifid, longer than co- 

 rolla-tube ; corolla somewhat woolly, yellowish-red, or lilac, short 

 tubular-campanulate, straightish or curved, with irregularly denticu- 

 late lips, the upper nearly entire, the lower with rounded lobes ; fila- 

 ments inserted near base of corolla-tube, woolly below — Spring — 

 Northern Palestine to Mesopotamia. 



5. O, cernua, Lofl. 2f .15 to .3, minutely pruinose or glabres- 

 cent ; stem thickish, scaly below. Spike dense, violet ; bract oo -nerv- 

 ed, ovate-lanceolate, acute, half as long as corolla ; sepals oo -nei-ved, 

 ovate, entire or bifid, half as long as corolla ; corolla .015 long, gla- 

 brous, tubular, curved at middle, nodding, violet, lips small, crenate,not 

 ciliate, the upper bilobed, the lower nearly equal-lobed ; filaments in- 

 serted above middle of tube — Spring — Palestine ; Gilead ; Hauran ; 

 Leja ; Ghor-es-Safieh, and southward in the Tih. 



4. LiATHRlEA, L. Lathr(ea. 



Flowers perfect, bracted but not bracteoled. Calyx campanulate, 

 4-fid. Corolla 2-lipped. Stamens [inserted on corolla-tube, base of 



