Cuscuta. | XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). 205 
obtuse, unequal ; sepals keeled. Corolla barely exceeding the calyx, with globose 
tube and strongly retlexed, short, bluntly ovate lobes. Stamens nearly as long as the 
lobes. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Mount Gheden, near Massaua, 500-1000 ft., Schwein- 
Surth § Riva, 94! 
The species is widely distributed with numerous varieties in both Old and New 
Worlds. The brief description of C. ndorensis, Schweinf. (in von Holmel’s PI. 
Rudolph See, 859), gathered by von Hohnel at 6000 ft. alt. in Ndoro, gives no 
character by which it can be distinguished from C. obtusiflora. 
6. C. blepharolepis, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 
743. A fleshy herb, with deep orange or saffron-coloured stems. 
Flowers sessile or subsessile, forming lateral clusters, 3-4 lin. in diam., 
distant or approximated in larger clusters; bracts round-ovate, blunt, 
apiculate, about 14 lin. long. Calyx and corolla 5-merous, pale yellowish. 
Calyx hemispherical, about 14 lin. in diam. Sepals free to the base, 
closely imbricate, fleshy, orbicular-ovate, barely 14 lin. long, obtuse, 
dorsally thickened in the middle line and beneath the apex, margin 
erosulose. Corolla exceeding the calyx; tube shortly campanulate, 
about 1 lin. long; lobes spreading ovate, blunt, 14 lin. long, margin 
erosulose. Scales large, broadly oblong, fimbriate, embracing the styles 
and thus closing the throat of the corolla. Anthers yellow, exserted ; 
connective slightly produced at the tip. Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; 
styles 2, long (ultimately 14 lin. long), exserted; stigmas capitate. 
Fruit not present. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo ; near Pedra Cabondo, Welwitsch, 
6140! 
7. C. Kilimanjari, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2 ser. Bot. ii. 345. 
Stems dark-coloured when dry, shorter than in C. hyalina. Flowers in 
umbellate clusters subtended by a broadly ovate carinate blunt bract 
barely 14 lin. long, shortly pedicellate. Calyx broadly campanulate, 
1 lin. ora little over 1 lin. long; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, 5-partite 
nearly to the base, closely imbricate. Corolla yellowish-white, broadly 
campanulate, 14 lin. long, without any scales but foveolate opposite the 
lobes, or small blunt scales sometimes present; lobes very broadly 
ovate, obtuse, as long as the tube. Stamens short, inserted in the 
sinuses ; filaments flattened. Styles subulate, shorter than the ovary; 
stigma capitate. Capsule probably circumscissile near the base —Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 351. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Johxston, 86! 
8. C. hyalina, oth, Nov. Pl. Spec. 100. Stems very slender. 
Flowers stalked, in few (often 3-) flowered monochasial cymes ; pedicels 
1—2 lin. long; bract ovate, acute, about 14 lin. long. Calyx barely 13 
lin. long ; lobes ovate, acute, twice as long as the campanulate tube. 
Corolla-tube campanulate, 14 lin. long, without any scales; segments 
narrowly ovate-triangular, tapering, spreading. Stamens much shorter 
than the corolla-lobes; filaments rather flattened ; anthers oblong. 
Styles long, slender, extended to ? lin. long ; stigma globose, capitate. 
