146 DIDYNAMIA—ANGIOSPERMIA. Orobanche. 

 315. OROBANCHE. Broom-rape. 



Linn. Gen. 321. Juss.lOl . FLBr.668. Tourn.t. 81. Lam.t.55]. 



Nat. Ord. Personated. Linn. 40. Pediculai-es. Juss. 35. Sa-o- 

 pkularincE. Br. Prodr. 433. Orohanchece of Richard. 

 Hook. Scot. 222. 



Cal. of 2 lateral, opposite, acute, coloured, undivided or 

 cloven, permanent leaves. Cw. ringent, withering ; tube 

 ovate, curved, finally membranous ; upper lip concave, 

 notched, more or less dilated and spreading at the mar- 

 gin ; lower reflexed, in 3, somewhat unequal, wavy lobes. 

 inject, a gland under the germen. Filam. from the base 

 of the corolla, almost as long as the tube, awl-shaped, 

 flattened and somewhat dilated downward, variously and 

 partially downy and glandular. Anth. incumbent, of 2 

 lobes, rounded at the top and pointed at the lower ends, 

 each opening by a longitudinal cleft in front. Germ. 

 ovate-oblong. Style terminal, cylindrical, incurved, as 

 long as the stamens. Stigma large, deflexed, of 2 or 3 

 distinct globular lobes. Caps, ovate, pointed, of 1 cell 

 and 2 valves, with 2 longitudinal receptacles proceeding 

 from the middle part of each valve. Seeds very nume- 

 rous, minute, wrinkled, covering the receptacles. 



Leafless scaly herbs, simple or branched, for the most part, 

 if not always, parasitical ; their whole surface minutely 

 downy, or mealy, brownish, dull purple, or red. Fl. 

 more coloured, but withering, and turning brown, before 

 the corolla falls. The roots are small, fibrous, generally 

 attached to those of Broom, Furze, Clover, or other pa- 

 pilionaceous plants ; some of them to Hemp. 



* Bracteas solitary. 

 1. O. major. Greater Broom-rape. 



Stem simple. Corolla inflated ; upper lip slightly notched ; 

 lower with acute, nearly equal segments. Stamens quite 

 smooth below. Style downy. 



O. major. Linn. Sp.Vl. 881. JVilld.v.3.347. Fl. Br. 669. Engl. 



mt. V. 6. t. 42) , Sution Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 175. Curt. Land. 



fasc. 4. t. 44. Hook. Scot. 1 90. 

 O. major, Garyophyllum olens. Raii Syn. *288 ; but not that of 



Bauhin. 

 O. altera Matthioli. Dalech. Hist.485.f. 

 Rapum genistse, sive Orobanche, Ger. Em. 1311? 



