226 CI. CONVOLVULACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Cuscuta. 
corolla campanulate deciduous, scales remote from the filaments, style very 
short, stigmas lanceolate, capsule 4—4 in. fleshy circumsciss near the base 4 
seeded. Wall. Cat. 1319; Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 150; Chois. Convolv. Or. 116, 
and in DC. Prodr. ix. 454; Engelm. Cusc. 68. C. grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 1318. 
Chois. Convolv. Or. 116. C. verrucosa, Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard.t.6. C. Hookeri, 
Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 373. C. macrantha, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 305; 
Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 455. C. elatior, Chois. Convolv. Or. 177. 
Throughout Inpa, alt. 0-8000 ft., common; Bengal Plain, abundant. CEYLON ; 
Newera Ellia, Gardener.—Distrin. Malaya. 
Branches stout, fleshy, forming dense yellow masses on low trees and shrubs. 
Flowers 5-merous, in lax racemes 1-4 in. long, also clustered or subspicate ; pedicels 
0— in, often verrucose; bracts 3, in. Sepals 4, in., nearly distinct, ovate, ob- 
tuse. Corolla 3-4 by à in., subcylindrie; lobes short-triangular, reflexed ; scales 
prominent, emarginate, fimbriate. Stigmas wide apart. Capsule (unripe) acute 
(corolla early deciduous), ultimately subquadrate obtuse tough fleshy. Seeds large, 
ck. 
vo*5 Var. anguina, corolla about half the usual size. C. anguina, Edgew. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xx. 87.—W. Himalaya; Edgeworth. The corolla varies a good deal in 
size from Wallich’s C. grandiflora down to C. anguina, Edgw.; the chain of inter- 
mediates is nearly complete. 
2. C. gigantea, Griff. Notul. i. 243; spikes short subracemose, corolla 
cylindric deciduous, scales near its base remote from the filaments, style short, 
stigmas lingulate, capsule 4-i in. membranous circumsciss near the base 2- 
seeded, Engelm. Cuscut. 66 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 122. 
Western Terr; Falconer.—Distrim. Cabul. 
Much slenderer than C. reflexa. Flowers irregularly fascicled or shortly pedicelled, 
not capitate; bracts 3, in., ovate. Sepals 3. in., ovate, obtuse. Corolla 3-4 in., tube 
subeylindrie; lobes 5, subacute, erect or reflexed ; scales elliptic, shortly fimbriate. 
Pistil nearly as of C. reflera but smaller. Capsule ultimately subquadrate, obtuse. 
Seeds broadly rhombiform, black.—Founded on n. 683 of Griff. Herb. Propr. from 
Cabul; but the Kew Distrib. n. 5899, which also bears Griffith's ticket n. 683, 18 à 
Eucuscuta with subglobose corolla and two styles, &c. 
Scsezwvs 2. Eucuscuta. Ovary and young fruit obtuse. Styles 2, 
their bases approximate but separated by a narrow depression which in the 
fruit becomes a pit. 
* Styles elongate, stigmas capitate. 
3. C. hyalina, Roth Nov. Sp. 100, not of Wight; cymes or racemes 
dense, calyx acutely lobed 3 down, corolla-lobes lanceolate acuminate, scales 0. 
elm. Cuscut. 40; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 121. C. sulcata, Wall. Cat. 1320 (as 
to Heyne’s examples marked C. hyalina). C. arabica, Wight Ic. 1371, not of 
Fresen. C. oxypetala, Boiss. Diagn. 2. iii. 130. ©. Boissieri, Stocks in Hook. 
Kew Journ. iv. 173. 
Scinpe; Stocks. Deccan PExisUra, Rottler; Palamcottah, Wighi.— DISTRI». 
Beloochistan ; Abyssinia, 
Pedicels 0-8 in.; bracts 3; in., ovate. Calyx l in. Corolla-tube 3-3, in.; lobes 
5, 3 in., acuminate and even caudate. Capsule x5 in., fragile, irregularly breaking up 
from the base, normally 4-seeded.— A strongly marked plant, certainly C. hyalina of 
Hottler, Engelmann and Boissier; but the description of Roth, copied by Choisy (in 
DC. Prodr. ix. 460), is greatly at variance with the characters of the plant. 
_ 4. C. chinensis, Lamk. Enc. ii. 229; cymes or racemes dense, sepals 
triangular-ovate subobtuse, corolla-lobes ovate obtuse or shortly acute, scales 
shortly fimbriate. Chois. in DC. Prodr.ix. 457 ; Wight. Ic. t. 1373 ; Engelm. 
