202 XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). | Argyreia. 
4. A. multiflora, Baker, not of Voigt. A shrubby climber. Leaves 
distinctly petioled, large, cordate-ovate, acute, grey pubescent beneath 
and with glands barely visible to the naked eye. Peduncles short, 
axillary, many-flowered, glabrescent ; pedicels as long as the peduncle, 
subclavate, barely 1 in. long. Sepals oblong-elliptic, obtuse, some- 
times mucronate, grey pubescent on the back, margin glabrous, 
membranous. Corolla white, 2 in. long; midpetaline areas lined with 
5 prominent nerves, glandular punctate, and with a tuft of white hairs 
at the end.—WStictocardia multiflora, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviil. 
160. Rivea tiliefolia, var. multiflora, Klotzsch ex Hallier f. l.c. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique; Cabanira, Peters. 
Not seen. A specimen from Brava, Somali Coast, collected by Avirk may perhaps 
be referable to this species. The leives are multiglandular on the back, but 
glabrous, or sparsely puberulous on the veins, The sepals are oblong, the outer 
ones very broadly oblong, 7-73 lin. long. The corolla is nearly 25 in. long. 
28. CUSCUTA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 881. 
Calyx usually campanulate; sepals usually 5, imbricate, ovate, 
generally more or less united at the base. Corolla campanulate ; lobes 
usually 5, longer or shorter than the tube, imbricate; tube usually 
appendiculate with 5 scales, placed beneath the lobes, Stamens inserted 
in the sinuses between the corolla-lobes or below them; filaments 
filiform or flattened; anthers globose or oblong. Ovary 4-ovuled, 
perfectly or imperfectly 2-celled ; styles 2, free to the base or connate; 
stigmas capitate or linear. Capsule dry or fleshy, bursting irregularly or 
dehiscence circumscissile. Seeds glabrous ; embryo peripherie, filiform, 
entire.—Leafless parasites, with twining stems and small usually 
reddish-white flowers in clusters. 
Species about 80. Cosmopolitan. 
* Kucuscura.—Styles free to the base or obsolete; 
stigmas narrow. 
Styles developed. 
Corolla-lobes narzow, acute . 
Corolla-lobes ovate, obtuse toacute . 
Styles obsolete f : : : : 
“* GRAMMICA.—Styles free to the base; stigmas capi- 
tate. 
Scales present on the corolla-tube. 
Calyx 5-lobed to about the middle. 
C. abyssinica. 
. C. planiflora. 
C. arabica. 
SOAS i 
Capsule splitting irregularly at the base . 4. OC. chinensis. 
Capsule opening at the top = : 5. C. obtusiflora. 
Calyx 5-partite nearly to the base 2 . 6. C, blepharolepis. 
Scales not present on the corolla-tube (small scales 
sometimes present in C. Kilimanjari). 
Corolla-lobes obtuse . r . 7. C. Kilimanjari. 
Corolla-lobes tapering, acute - . 8. C. hyalina. 
Corolla-lobes acute . “ . ° . . 9. C. Epitribulum. 
ast MonoGyna,—Styles connate. 
10. C. cassytoides. 
