466 xciii. orobaxchace^ (stapf). [Orobanche.. 



2. O. Muteli, Schultz in Mutel, Fl. Franc, ii. 353, & Ail. t. 43, 

 fig. 314 ; Suppl. t. 2, fig. 5. Stem slender, branched, rarely simple,. 

 4-10 in. high, like the whole plant more or less glandular-hairy. 

 Scales ovate to lanceolate, 2|— 5 lin. long, sometimes almost glabrous- 

 Inflorescence spicate or the lowest flowers distinctly pedicelled, many- 

 flowered, usually rather loose ; bracts oblong-ovate to lanceolate, acute, 

 3-5 lin. long; bracteoles linear-subulate, usually exceeding the calyx-tube. 

 Calyx 4-5 lin. long, firmly membranous with more or less prominent 

 nerves, divided to about the middle into 4 triangular or lanceolate,, 

 acuminate or caudate-acuminate, 3-nerved teeth. Corolla pallid below, 

 otherwise blueish or lilac, 9-10 lin. long ; tube constricted about 3-4 lin. 

 above the base, then widened into the funnel-shaped throat, which is 

 about 2 \ lin. across, dorsal outline more or less curved; upper lip 2-lobed,. 

 porrect lobes rounded; lower lip with 3 subequal, rotundate, crenulate- 

 dentate or repand, ciliolate lobes. Filaments 3£ lin. long, glabrous or 

 slightly hairy at the base ; anthers glabrous or slightly villous at the 

 base. Style glabrous or sparingly glandular-hairy; stigma almost 

 funnel-shaped, obscurely 2-lobed, whitish or yellowish. — Schultz in 

 Flora, 1847, 67, 168 ; Beck, Monogr. Orobanch. in Bibl. Bot. iv. 95, t. 1, 

 fig. 13 (3) (vars. S 3, Promunturii and e typica) Phelipcea ramosa, 

 Harvey, Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. ii. 274, not of C. A. Meyer ; var. Muieli, 

 Boiss., Fl. Or. iv. 499. P. Muteli, Reuter in DC. Prodr. xi. 8, partly; 

 .Reichb. fil. Ic. Fl. Germ. xx. 89, t. 1771. P. Hohenackeri, Reuter in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 10. P. reuteriana, Reichenb. f. I.e. xx. 117, t. 1839, fig. ii.. 

 Phelipanche Mutelii, Pomel, Nouv. Mater. Fl. Atl. 106. 



M"ile Land. Eritrea : Habab, Hildebrandt, oil, partly. French Somaliland : 

 Gulf of Tajura, Lord ! 



Very common throughout the Mediterranean region ; parasitic on Composite , 

 Leguminosce, La&iatce, &c. 



3. O. cernua, var. Desertorum, Beck, Monogr. Orob. in Bibl. 

 Bot. iv. 142, t. u.fig. 33 (?). Stems solitary or fascicled, simple, stout,. 

 like the whole plant more or less glandular and cobwebby-pubescent, 

 rarely glabrescent, up to 16 in. high. Scales ovate or ovate-lanceolate,. 

 acute or acuminate, entire or denticulate, 2|— 5 lin. long. Spike 

 cylindric, many-flowered, dense, rounded at the apex, up to 8 in. long. 

 Bracts ovate to ovatedanceolate, acute or acuminate, up to |- in. long : 

 bracteoles 0. Calyx split to the very base or almost so in front and on 

 the back, 4-5 lin. long, divisions ovate, either entire or caudate- 

 acuminate or more or less deeply bifid with usually unequal caudate- 

 acuminate or acuminate teeth, yellowish or blueish, sparingly glandular. 

 Corolla 7A-9 lin. long, whitish and inflated below the insertion of the 

 stamens, particularly after flowering, moderately constricted and often 

 bent at the middle, slightly widened upwards into the blueish throat ; 

 limb small ; upper lip emarginate or 2-lobed ; lobes crenulate with 

 glabrous margins ; lower lip equally 3-lobed ; lobes rounded or sub- 

 acute, otherwise like those of the upper lip. Stamens inserted just 

 below the middle of the tube. Filaments glabrous, rarely sparsely 

 glandular hairy ; anthers glabrous or sparingly hairy. Style glabrous 



