CUSCUTACEAE. 
CuscuTAcEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst.230. Veg. Kingd. 3. ed. 633. — CUsCUTEAE (ordo proprius) 
Presl, Fl. Cechica І. 247. Bartl. Ord. паї. 192. Endl. Gen. 655. Meissn. Gen. 212. Schnizl. 
Iconogr. t.144**. Le Maout et De Caisne, Traité gén. Bot. 111. — CONVOLVULACEARUM tribus Cuscu- 
TEAE Choisy in DC. Prodr. IX. 452. et in Мет. Soc. Hist. nat. Genev. IX. pars IH. 180. — 
CuscuriNAE Link, Handb. 4. 594. 
DICOTYLEDONEAE SYMPETALAE HYPOGYNAE. CALYX LIBER PERSISTENS 5- (RARIUS 4-) MERUS. 
COROLLA REGULARIS, LOBIS CUM SEGMENTIS CALYCINIS ALTERNANTIBUS, PER AESTIVATIONEM CON- 
TORTIS, INTUS SQUAMULIS STAMINIBUS SUBJECTIS ORNATA RARISSIME NUDA, MARCESCENS. OVARIUM 
E CARPOPHYLLIS DUOBUS CONSTITUTUM BILOCULARE; OVULA IN LOCULIS GEMINA, COLLATERALIA, ANA- 
TROPA, DISSEPIMENTO AFFIXA. STYLI DUO LIBERI V. RARO COADUNATI. CAPSULA BILOCULARIS, BASIM 
VERSUS CIRCULARITER DEHISCIT, RARIUS INDEHISCENS. SEMINA IN LOCULIS GEMINA V. ABORTU SOLITARIA. 
EMBRYO FILIFORMIS, COTYLEDONIBUS CONSPICUIS DESTITUTUS, CIRCA ALBUMEN CARNOSUM SPIRALITER 
CONVOLUTUS, RADICULA INFERA SENSIM INCRASSATA. | 
Fronrs hermaphroditi, regulares. Сагух synsepalus, quinquefidus (raro 4-fidus), rarissime 
sepalis distinctis squamiformibus. COROLLA campanulato-urceolata v. tubulosa, limbo 5- v. 4-fido. 
STAMINA corollae fauci inserta, lobis alternantia; ANTHERAE biloculares, introrsae; FILAMENTA 
complanata filiformia v. subulata. SQuAMAE tubo affixae, saepissime fimbriato-ciliatae. Этим fili- 
formes v. subulati, saepe inaequilongi; sriGMATA acuta filiformia v. clavata aut capitata. OvurA 
ad basim dissepimenti affixa, integumento simplici instructa. CaPsuLA basim versus transverse 
circumscinditur, apertura regulari marginata v. irregulari dilacerata, v. delabitur clausa (sub- 
baccata) cum v. sine calyce; apice inter stylos carpidiorum disjunctione partiali aperturam plus 
minus rhombicam (orificium intrastylare) praebet, quae in speciebus stylis connatis deest; dis- 
sepimentum post capsulae delapsum totum v. partim cum capsulae basi conjunctum remanet. 
SEMINA subglobosa si singula v. bina, trigona si terna v. quaterna in capsula adsunt, apice rotun- 
data v. acutata, basi (placentae discoideae v. cupuliformi affixa) oblique truncata v. subcurvata 
v. rostrata. Testa simplex, flava v. fusca, saepius verruculosa; hilus striae- v. punctiformis in 
umbilico orbiculari ad seminis inferiorem partem posito. EMBRYO filiformis. 1—1'/, torsionibus 
spiraliter convolutus, radicula hilum spectante, apice tenuiore (in quibusdam speciebus) squa- 
mulis binis minutissimis suboppositis cotyledonum loco instructus. 
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