FLORA OF ADEN. 
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1. Cistanche lu tea Hoffmgg. & Link FI. Port. I, 319, t. 63 ; Reichb. 
PI. Crit. VII, t. 700, fig. 939 ; Stapf in FI. Trop. Afr. vol. IV, sec 2, p. 
463. 
Lathrsea Phelipsea Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2. II, 844 ; Brot. FJ. Lus. I, 184. 
Orobanche tinctoria Willd. Sp. PI. Ill, 353. 
Phelipsea lutea Desf. FI. Atl. II, 60, t. 146 ; Brunner in Flora 
(1840) II. Beibl. 1 und4; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 500. 
Phelipsea tinctoria Walp. Rep. Ill, 462 ; Reut. in DC. Prodr. XI, 
13. 
Phelipsea senegalensis Reut. 1. c. 
Phelipsea lusitanica Coss. Not. Crit. Espagne, 43. 
Phelipsea Brunneri Webb in Hook. Niger FI. 167. 
Arabic name : — Hoddar, Hhedar. 
Description : — Stem swollen at the base, often more than 1 inch in 
diameter, stout, fleshy, like the whole plant (except the stamens and the 
inside of the corolla-tube), glabrous, J — 1^ feet high. Scales fleshy, 
lurid purplish or tinged with yellow, lower crowded, triangular, caudate- 
acuminate or acute, upper ovate- lanceolate or lanceolate, scattered, J — 1 
inch long, margins sometimes thin and more or less transparent. 
Spike cylindric, rounded at the top, or when young comose by the 
uppermost bracts, from a few inches to 1 foot long, usually dense, rarely 
somewhat lax ; bracts ovate-oblong or lanceolate, as long as the calyx 
or shorter or longer, in substance and colour like the stem-scales ; brac- 
deoles linear, about as long as the calyx. Calyx wide tubular-campa- 
nulate, 6 — 10 lines long, rarely longer, 5-lobed to J or almost ^ of its 
length ; lobes broad, elliptic-oblong, rounded, more or less imbricate, 
margins membranous. Corolla bright yellow ; tube 1 — 2 inches long, at 
Rrst almost straight, then more or less curved, at length often abruptly 
bent at the middle, cylindric below the middle, wide funnel-shaped above 
it, more or less villous below the insertion ; lobes much broader than 
long, 2^ — 3 lines long, rounded. Filaments hairy towards the base ; 
=anthers woolly, cells acute to mucronulate at the base. 
Locality : — Aden. On roots of Salvadora persica (Yerbury). 
Distribution : — Spain, Cape Verde, Senegambia, Southern Sahara, 
Nubia, Eritrea, Sennar, French Somaliland (?), throughout North Africa 
and the Orient. 
Note : — The Indian Cistanche tubulosa Wight “ scarcely differs from 
C. lutea Hoffmgg. et Link, the apiculation of the anthers being the 
•distinctive character. This, however, in Tropical African specimens, 
does not seem to be always a constant one/'’ Cooke, FI. Bomb. Pres. II, 
813. 
