Cuscuta. | XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). 203 
1. ©. abyssinica, Lich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 78. Stem slender, 
branched. Heads sessile, dense, globose, many-flowered; flowers 
sessile. Calyx campanulate, 1 lin. long, 5-partite almost to the base ; 
lobes ovate, acute. Corolla campanulate, scarcely longer than the calyx ; 
lobes slightly exceeding the tube, narrowly triangular-ovate, very 
acute; scales broadly-oblong, fimbriate. Stamens slightly exserted, 
shorter than the corolla-lobes. Styles 2, shorter than the stigmas. 
Stigmas slender, included, together with the styles about $ in. long. 
Capsule circumscissile ; seeds brown, testa rough.—Engelm. in Trans. 
Acad.» Sci. St. Louis, i. 464. OC. hyalina, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 525, 
and Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 351 not of Roth. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Habab, Hildebrandt, 506! Abyssinia: by the Tacazze 
River, Quartin-Dillon, Somaliland; Serut Mountains, near Maid, 5000-7500 ft., 
Hildebrandt, 1413! Wagga Mountain, 6000 ft., Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 
I have seen no authenticated specimen of this species, and the determinations 
“are made with some reserve. The species is very near C. planiflora, differing only 
in the longer, more acute corolla-lobes.—A. B. R. 
2. C. planiflora, Zen. //. Nap. iii. 250. Stems very slender, 
reddish. Flowers sessile or subsessile, in dense globose sessile clusters, 
2-3 lin. in diam. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, about 1 lin. long; lobes 
5, ovate, obtuse to subacute, about as longas the tube. Corolla slightly 
exceeding the calyx, globose-urceolate; lobes 5, ovate, obtuse, pale 
pink or whitish, spreading, barely as long as the tube; scales broad, 
Shortly fimbriate above. Stamens 5, shorter than the lobes. Styles 
shorter than the linear stigmas ; style and stigma together barely $ lin. 
long. Capsule regularly circumscissile at the base. Seeds 4, brown ; 
testa granulate.—Engelm. in Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, i. 464. C. 
brevistyla, A. Braun ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 79; Engelm. 1.c. 
467; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 350. 
Nile Land. Nubia: Coast to between 3000 and 4000 ft., Bent! Eritrea: 
Asmara, 7500 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 2092! Abyssinia: Mountains near Axum, 
Schimper, 1486 | Asfaha, 7000 and 8000 ft., Schimper, 743! Sanka Berr, 7000 ft., 
Schimper, 1120! Doka Keit, Roth, 426! Messraha near Lake Zana, 7500 ft., 
Schimper 1344! and without precise locality, Schimper, 14! 
Also in the Mediterranean region, India, and Central Asia. 
Var. Holstii, Rendle. Sepals free nearly to the base, ovate, obtuse, much im- 
Dricate, 1 lin. long. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx; lobes triangular-ovate, 
wore or less acute; scales suborbicular with shortly fimbriate edge. Styles short ; 
stigmas linear, nearly 1 lin. long. 
os Mozamb Dist. (jerman East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 
14! 
Var. mossamedensis, Welw, ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 743. Calyx fleshy 
4-lobed, less than 1 lin. long; lobes bruadly ovate, obtuse. Corolla about as long as 
the calyx, 4-lobed; lobes triangular, subacute; stamens 4. Styles very short; 
Stigmas linear, about as long as the ovary. 
rf Lower Guinea, Angola: Mossamedes; between Cazimba and Mossamedes, in 
gravelly submaritime stations flooded in the rainy season ; parasiticon Merremia 
multisecta, Welwitsch, 6121! 
