56. OEOBANCHACEJE. 245 



(purplish in D. Tatula),- large, erect. Fr. densely spinose. 

 Gaps, with 4 dissepiments below^ onlt 2 at the top'.— Waste 

 ground, rare. A. VI. VII.] " E. 



Order LVI. OROBANCHACEiE. 



Cal. variously divided, persistent. Cor. irregular, usually 

 2-lipped, persistent, imbricate in the hud. Stam. on the cor., 4, 

 didynamous. Anth.2-ceUed;' cells distinct, parallel. Ovary in 

 a fleshy disk, 1-celled, wifh 2 or more parietal placentas. Stigma 

 2-lobed. Fr. capsular, 2-valved, with many minute seeds. 



L Obobanchb. Oal. 4-cleft or of 2 usually bifid sepals. 

 Cor. ringent, 4 — 5-cleft, deciduous, its base persistent. 

 Bracts 1— 3.— G. F. G. Gam. i. 49, 50. 



'2. Lathb^a. Cor. 2-lipped, the upper lip concaye, deciduous, 

 entire. Otherwise like Orohanche. — G. F. G. Gam. i. 51. 



1. Oboban'che Linn. Broom-rape, 



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

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



1. O. Rdpum (ThuiU.); sep.2-veined equally Bifld nearly equal- 

 ling the cor. -tube, cor. beUshkped ventricose at the base m 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.— iJ. I. f. 900 & 923. O. major (L.) Sm., 

 but Fries 'states that that syn. belongs to O. elatior, — Stig. of 2 

 distant yellow lobes. Anth. white when dry.— Parasitical upon 

 Broom, Furze, and Other shrubby legiirkinous plants. P. v. — 

 VII. e; S. I. 



2. 0. 1'ubra (Sm.) ; sep. 1-veined lanceolate attenuate exceed- 

 ing t^he cor.-tube undivided, cpr. hellshaped its back curved 

 ghmdidar-pubescent externally and the ujyper lip ii\ternally, lips 

 acutely demtieulate and crisped, upper lip emarginate its sides 

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

 rather longer, stam. inserted fwaf, to fl^ base of the corolla 

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

 the style slightly glandular-pilose.--i2. I. f. 885. Probably 0. 

 Epithymum DC. — Scarcely a foot high. Stigma 2-lobed, pah 

 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. — V&t^- 

 smcal n-pon ThymmSerpyllum. P. VI.— VTII. E.S.I. 



