Phelipaea
(named after the Philipeaux family, patrons of the botanist Tournefort). SYNS. Anoplanthus (in part), Macranoplon (in part). ORD. Orobanchaceae. A genus comprising only a couple of species of singular and beautiful, puberulous or glabrous, hardy, leafless, Oriental herbs. Flowers scarlet, large, ebracteolate, always solitary, on a few-scaled, elongated scape or naked peduncle; calyx broadly campanulate, cut into five unequal, acute lobes; corolla tube broadly ventricose, incurved; limb large, spreading, sub-bilabiate, with five broadly rotundate, scarcely unequal lobes. "Only one species has yet been successfully cultivated. It is a hardy perennial (?), parasitical upon the roots of Centaurea dealbata. The seeds should be sown with those of the Centaurea, together, in the same pot, when probably some will germinate, fasten themselves upon the roots of the seedling Centaureas, and develop into plants" (N. E. Brown).
P. foliata (leafy). fl., corolla inflated, ventricose; tube nearly 1in long; limb nearly 1in. in diameter, the throat having two dark velvety spots; stamens inserted below the middle of the tube; scape 1ft. long, terete, somewhat flexuous, striated, glabrous, or somewhat puberulous at apex; scales semi-amplexicaul, sheathing, remote. Caucasus, 1880. SYNS. Anoplanthus Biebersteini (R.G. 1000), A. foliata.