LX VIII. SCROPHULARIACEAE 868 
obtuse. Stamens attached near the top of the tube, filaments 
glabrous. Capsule § in., broadly oblong. (Fig. 114.) 
Simla, Mushobra, common ; July-September. — Temperate Himalaya, 5000- 
9000 ft. 
24. LATHHiEA. From the Greek lathraios, hidden ; the 
greater part of the plant is subterranean. — Himalaya, Northern 
Asia, Europe. 
Lathrsea squamosa, Linn . ; FI. Br. Ind. iv. 318. A pale pink, 
leafless, perennial herb, parasitic on roots of trees ; stems sub- 
terranean, much branched, creeping, fleshy, covered with closely 
set, short, thick scales. Flowering branches aerial, erect, 4-12 in., 
bearing a few thin scales. Flowers cream-white, tipped with pink- 
purple, horizontal, nearly | in. long, crowded in terminal, bracteate 
racemes, bent in bud, elongating and straightening as the flowers 
expand. Calyx hairy, tubular, 4-lobed. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube 
as long as the calyx ; upper lip entire, margins indexed at the 
tip; lower 3-lobed ; both- lips nearly erect. Stamens 4, in un- 
equal pairs, attached near the top of the tube, anthers hairy, 
slightly cohering. Ovary 1-celled ; style curved, stigma capitate, 
protruding. Capsule ovoid. 
Baghi forest ; April-June. — W. Himalaya, 6000-9000 ft. — Northern Asia,, 
Europe (Britain, Toothwort). 
LXIX. OROBANCHACE^E 
A small Order of leafless, parasitic herbs spread over nearly all 
temperate and tropical regions ; represented in the neighbourhood 
of Simla by only one species. 
OROBANCHE. From the Greek orobus, a vetch, and ancho,, 
to strangle ; some species are parasitic on vetches. — Chiefly 
northern and subtropical regions of the Old World. 
Orobanche Epithymum, DC . ;, FI. Br. Ind. iv. 325. A 
glandular-pubescent, red- or purple-brown herb ; stems erect,, 
unbranched, scaly, 3-12 in., thickened at the base.. Scales alter- 
nate, lanceolate, f-1 in. Flowers red-brown, irregular, 2-sexual,, 
each in the axil of a bract, forming a terminal spike. Caiyx free, 
deeply divided in 4 unequal, lanceolate lobes. Corolla hypogynous,, 
2 -lipped, § in. long; tube cylindric, curved; upper lip erect,, 
arched, notched ; lower spreading, 3-lobed, margins wavy, mi- 
nutely toothed. Stamens 4, included, in unequal pairs, attached 
