Orobanche. ] xcni. okobanchace^e (stapf). 4G7 



or sparingly hairy ; stigma 2-lobed, white or whitish. — 0. cernua, Boiss.. 

 Fl. Or. iv. 514; Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 339, not of Loefl. 

 0. curviflora, Yiv. PI. zRg. Dec. iv. 22, t. ii. fig. 17. 



Wile Land. Nubia : coast region, Bent ! British Somaliland, Miss Edith 

 Cole ! Mrs. Lort Phillips ! Golis Range, Dralce JBrockman, 161 ! 



Also in Socotra, Arabia, and throughout the Orient to North-western India. 

 The typical form of 0. cernua, Loefl. (Beck, I.e. 143) has smaller flowers and is more 

 or less limited to South-west Europe. 



4. O. minor, Sutton in Trans. Linn. Soc. iv. 179. Stems solitary 

 or fascicled, rather slender, simple, 4-20 in. high, like the whole plant 

 more or less glandular-hairy. Scales crowded near the base, distant 

 higher up, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, ^— | in. long. Spike cylindric 

 many- or (in weak specimens) few-flowered, usually rather loose, except 

 when young, with the lower flowers often remote, up to more than 1 ft. 

 long. Bracts like the scales, but more acuminate ; bracteoles 0. Calyx 

 divided to the very base in front and on the back ; divisions ovate to 

 ovatedanceolate, entire and long caudate-acuminate or 2-toothed, up to 

 § in. long, 1-nerved. Corolla up to § in. long, yellow with purplish 

 veins towards the limb, tubular, slightly constricted at the middle ; 

 upper lip 2-lobed or emarginate ; lower lip equally or subequally 3-lobed ; 

 all the lobes rounded, plicate crenulate- dentate, glabrous along the 

 margin. Stamens inserted 1—1 J lin. above the base ; filaments more 

 or less hairy, at least below ; anthers usually puberulous.. Style mostly 

 glandular-hairy ; stigma 2-lobed, lurid-purple. — Sowerb. &. Smith, En«i, 

 Bot, vi. t. 422*; Reuter in DC. Prodr. xi. 29 ■ Reichb. PI. Crit. vii. 30 ; . 

 tt. (.52-3 ; Reichb. til. Ic. Fl. Germ. xx. 103, t. 1804 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Or. iv. 512 ; Beck, Monogr. Orob. in Bibl. Bot. iv. 251, t. iv. fig. 82. 0. 

 abyssinica, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 137. 



Nile Land. Eritrea: Aidereso, 4100 ft., Schweinfurth, 1416! 1436! near 

 Aernr, 6300 ft., Schweinfurth, 1050 ! Abyssinia, Quartin- Dillon Sf Petit ! Plow- 

 den .' Parhyns ! Schimper .' Uganda: Ruwenzori ; cultivated land, 6000-7000 ft., 

 Scott-Elliot, 7819 ! between Eldama Ravine and Mau, 7000-7500 ft., Whyte t 

 Unryoo ; Bugoma, Dame, 750 ! 



Mozamb, Dist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 4000-6000 ft., Yollcens, 

 545 ! Johnston ! Usambara, Buchwald, 453 ! Portuguese Enst Africa : mountains 

 east i if Lake Nyasa, Johnson ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; between Mandala 

 and Kibana, Scott! between Kondowe and Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! Nyika 

 Mountains, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Tanganyika Plateau at Fort Hill, Whyte] 



Imperfectly known species. 



5. O Sclmltzii, forma pyramidalls, Beck, Monogr. Orob. in 

 Bibl. Bot. iv. 112. Stems slender, simple, 4-24 in. long, bulbously 

 thickened at the base, glandular-hairy. Scales numerous, ovate or 

 narrowly rhomboid, acuminate, or the upper ovate-lanceolate, denticulate 

 towards the base, 2^-5 lin. long. Inflorescence spicate or usually sub- 

 spicate and tufted at top, many-flowered, cylindric, dense, elongate and 

 acuminate, the lowest flowers often distinctly pedicelled ; bracts lanceo- 

 late, reaching to the tips of the calyx-teeth ; bracteoles slightly shorter - , 



