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1. OKOBAN'CHE Linn. Broom- rape. 



* Sepals 2, entire or bifid , separate or connected below in front. 

 Bract 1. Valves of caps, cohering at each end. 



1.. O. major (L.) ; sep. 2-veined equally bifid nearly equal- 

 lino: the cor.-tube, cor. bellshaped ventricose at the base in front, 

 its back curved, lips wavy obscurely denticulate (not fringed), 

 upper lip concave nearly entire its sides patent, middle lobe of 

 lower lip much longer than lateral lobes, stam. inserted at the 

 base of the cor. glabrous below but their upper part and the style 

 glandular-pubescent. R. I. f. 900 & 923. E. B. 421. O. 

 Rapum-genistce (Thuill.) l . Stig. of 2 distant yellow lobes. 

 Anth. white when dry. Parasitical upon Broom, Furze, and 

 other shrubby leguminous plants. P. V. "VII. E. S. I. 



2. O.rubra (Sm.); sep. 1-veined lanceolate attenuate exceed- 

 ing the cor.-tube, undivided, cor. bellshaped its back curved 

 glandular-pubescent externally and the upper lip internally, lips 

 acutely denticulate and crisped, upper lip emarginate its sides 

 patent, lateral lobes of lower lip nearly equal, intermediate lobe 

 rather long, stam. inserted near to the base of the corolla 

 slightly pilose within below but their top and the upper part of 

 the style slightly glandular-pilose. Sy. E. B. 101]. R. L t'. 

 885. Probably O. Epithymum DC. Scarcely a foot high. Pur- 

 plish red. Stigma 2-lobed, pale pink. Anth. fuscous when dry. 

 Sep. with a second faint vein near their anterior margin ; and 

 in the dry plant there is an appearance of several more. L. 

 few. Sweet-scented. Parasitical upon Thymus Serpyllum. P. 

 VI. VIII. E. S. L 



3. O. caryophylldcea (Sm.) ; sep. many-veined lanceolate 

 equally bifid falling short of the cor.-tube touching or connate 

 in front, cor. tubular-bellshaped curved on the back, lips spreading, 

 upper one 2-lobed its lobes porrect, lobes of lower lip nearly 

 equal rounded wavy, stam. inserted above the base of the cor. 

 hairy within below but their upper part and the style glandular- 

 hairy.^. B. S. 2639. 0. Galii Duby. Scarcely a foot high. 

 Stigma of 2 nearly separate dark purple lobes. Anth. fuscous, 

 yellow when dry. Sep. with crisp glandular hairs externally, 

 each lobe with 1 strong vein and several slender ones. Cor. 

 similarly hairy on both sides. On Galium Mollugo in Kent. 

 P. VI. VII. E. 



1 We have kept the Linnean name for this sp., O. elatior Sutt. having- 

 been differentiated earlier than O. Rapum-genishe Thuill. H. & J. G. , 



