Hyobanche rubra N.E.Br.

Parasitical herb, fleshy, at base almost woody; leaves scale-like imbricate, transversely oval, suborbicular or broadly ovate, rounded or very obtuse, sessile, fleshy, concave, glabrous, 1/8-1/3 in. long, 1/8-1/4 in. broad; flowers very densely corymbose-spicate; pedicels very short or obsolete; bracts oblong, obtuse, 1/2-1 in. long, 1/4-1/2 in. broad, ciliolate, otherwise glabrous; bracteoles linear, obtuse, ciliate, thinly pilose on the back especially along the midrib, 1-1 1/6 in. long, 1/10-1/8 in. broad; calyx 1 1/4-1 1/2 in. long, acutely 5-lobed, sparingly pilose, back lobe linear and free, the rest linear-falcate and connate to the middle corolla 2-2 1/2 in. long, tubular, subcylindrical, not much curved, about 1/8 in. in diam. below and 1/4 in. above, not galeate at the ape pubescent outside above, glabrous inside above, pubescent inside below, red; mouth very oblique, 2/3 in. long, with a very short tooth at the base; stamens glabrous, about equalling the corolla; ovary ovoid, glabrous; style about equalling the corolla, curved at the apex, glabrous; stigma large, slightly bilobed, dorsally compressed.