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Plate 46] OROBANCHE 71
Orobanche kashmirica, C. B. Clarke. Kashmir Broom-rape.
A hairy, pale brown plant. Stem simple, up to 1 ft. high.
Scales lance-shaped, i-i in, long, few, distant. Bracts lanceshaped,
i-J in. long, longer than the calyx. No bracteoles.
Calyx i in. long, equally 5-toothed, cleft to the base at the
back, entire in front, short, teeth broad, sharp-pointed.
Corolla pale brown, J-f in. long, softly hairy, tube broad,
lobes rounded. Filaments attached to the base of the corolla,
hairy below
;
anthers small, included in the tube, minutely
hairy.
Locality. Tilail, 11,000 ft. (Clarke).
Distribution. Apparently endemic.
Orobanche ramosa, Linn. Branching Broom-rape.
Mealy-hairy or almost hairless. Stem 6-12 in. high,
usually thick below and at once dividing into rather slender
erect branches. Scales few. Flower-spikes slender, longer
than the stem, lax-flowered, narrowed upwards. Bracts eggshaped,
long-pointed, shorter than the corolla-tube, variable in
length. Bracteoles filiform. Calyx half the length of the
corolla-tube, lobes slender, awl-shaped, broad at the base.
Corolla 2-f in. long, hairy within and without, tube narrow,
white, lobes blue, hairy on the margin. Filaments hairless,
anthers sparsely hairy or hairless.
Locality.
Distribution.
Jammu.
From Kashmir to Europe and N. Africa.
Orobanche psila, C. B. Clarke.
(Psila is a Greek word and means naked.)
Mealy-hairy. Stem 12-18 in. high, simple, slender. Scales
long, awl-lance-shaped, i-1 in. long. Flower-spike short, laxflowered,
2-3 in. long, blunt at tip. Bracts lance-shaped, as
long as the flower, lower ones f in. long. Bracteoles filiform.
Calyx half as long as the corolla. Corolla blue, 4-f in. long,
curved, hairy within and without, lobes very hairy within,
2 upper ones rounded, 2 lower elliptic. Filaments and anthers
hairy.
Iroca&fy. Mapanon, 9,000 ft. (Clarke).
Distribution. Apparently endemic.