308 SCROPHULARINE^E. [Lathr^ea. 



Flowers § in. Calyx 2-lipped, lobes broad subacute, shorter than the dull 

 purple arched corolla, which has small erect lobes. Anthers coherent, 

 pubescent. Style exserted, decurved, stigma purple. Capsxde ovoid. — 

 Distrib. Europe, N. and W. Asia, Himalaya. 



Order LVI. oroban che-?e 



Leafless brownish root-parasites. Rootstock often tuberous, naked or 

 scaly. Stem usually stout, solitary, scaly. Flowers in lax or dense spikes 

 or racemes. Sepals 4-5, inferior, free or connate. Corolla hypogynous, 

 irregular, tube curved ; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip arched, lower 3-fid ; 

 throat with 2 villous folds. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted on the 

 corolla-tube ; anthers 2-celled, cells spurred at the base, opening by lateral 

 slits or basal pores. Disk unilateral, or 0. Ovary 1 -celled, of 2 carpels ; 

 style simple, curved at the tip, stigma capitate 2-lobed ; ovules many, 

 rarely few, anatropous, placentas 2 pairs free or confluent parietal. Cap- 

 sule 1-celled, 2-valved, few- or many-seeded. Seeds minute, testa thick 

 pitted or tubercled, albumen fleshy ; embryo ovoid, undivided or 2-fid. — 

 Distrib. ( Temp, and trop. ; chiefly S. Europe and E. Asia ; genera 

 11 ; species 150. — Affinities. With Scrophularinecs and Cyrtandraceaz, 

 and possibly parasitic forms of these. — Properties. Astringent and 

 bitter. 



See Lathraa in Scrophularinese. 

 1. OROBANCHE, L, B ROOM-RAPE. 



Flowers usually glandular-pubescent, 1-3-bracteate. Sepals 4, usually 

 connate in pairs, with sometimes a small 5th. Corolla gaping ; upper 

 lip erect, 2-lobed ; lower spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens included, filaments 

 flattened below ; anther-cells spreading. Disk glandular or 0. Ovary 

 ovoid ; style usually glandular, stigma 2-lobed. Capsule imperfectly 

 2-valved, many-seeded ; valves cohering at the base and usually at the 

 top also. — Distrib. Of the Order; species about 100. — Etym. opofios, a 

 vetch, and fryx 6 " 7 * to strangle, from its parasitic habit. 



Section 1. Ospro'leon proper. Stem usually quite simple. Flowers 

 1-bracteate, ebracteolate. Calyx-segments 2, 2-fid, rarely entire. Capsule 

 with the valves coherent above. 



1. O. ma'jor, L. ; brown, sepals 1-3-nerved nearly as long as the corolla- 

 tube, upper lip entire, mid-lobe of lower lip longer than the lateral, fila- 

 ments glabrous below glandular above, stigma yellow. O. Ra'pum, Thuill. 

 Oh roots of shrubby Papilionacece, from Dumfries southd. ; Ireland ; Channel 

 Islands ; fl. June- Aug. — Stem stout, 1-2 ft. Spike rather dense-fld. ; bracts 

 equalling or exceeding the corolla. Sepals entire or 2-fid. Corolla 1 in., 

 yellow and purplish, subcampanulate, curved, lobes small, waved, scarcely 



