Cuscuta. | CI. CONVOLVULACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 227 
Cuscut. 29; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 190. C. carinata, Br. Prodr. 491; Chois. 
Lc. 460. C. sulcata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 447; Wall. Cat. 1320, type sheet, 
C. capillaris, Wall. Cat. 1321; Chois. Convolv. Or. 117. C. hyalina, Wight 
lc. t. 1372, not of Roth. O. ciliaris, Hohenack; Boiss. Diagn. 2. iii. 129. 
Grammica aphylla, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 171. 
Kasumir and Cuumpa; alt. 5-7000 ft, Clarke. E. BENGAL ; Wallich. Drecan 
Pextnsuta; common. CEYLON ; at Colombo.— DisrRiB. Eastwards to Australia and 
Westwards to Persia. 
Resembling C. hyalina, but with much less elongate acute corolla-lobes. Sepals 
nearly free, in large examples keeled (C. sulcata, Roxb. or C. carinata, R. Br.) ; in 
small examples flat. 
Van. minor, Chois. 3rd Mem. Convolv. t. 3, fig. 4; calyx and corolla hardly half 
so large as in the type. C. suleata, Wall. Cat. 1320, n. 3.—Martaban; Wallich.— 
Stems exceedingly slender. Referred in MS. by Engelmann to C. obtusiflora, H.B.K. 
Var. breviflora ; but the Martaban plant has the calyx divided to the base, and seems 
merely a weak example of C. chinensis, as Wallich regarded it. Engelmann (Cuseut. 
43) also refers as a Var. of C. obtusiflora, H. B. K., a plant collected in Kashmir by 
Jacquemont n. 876, which is no doubt this. . 
** Stigmas elongate or linear often as long as the styles. 
5. C. capitata, Roxb. FI. Ind. i. 448; flowers capitate, corolla ovoid 
Covered with minute papillee without. Engelm. Cuscut. 23. 
Temperate W, HrMALASA, alt, 6—12,000 ft., from Kashmir to Simla; Jaequemont, 
omson, &e.—Distrie. Cabul. : 
A slender rose-colonred species. Sepals }—ẹ in. ovate. Corolla scarcely $ in., 
mouth contracted; lobes 5, small, triangular, suberect; scales small, low in the 
corolla, slightly fimbriate. Styles linear-lanceolate, as long as the short-linear stigmas. 
Capsule i in., exceedingly thin and fragile, enclosed by the unchanged corolla, 
irregularly breaking up from the base. Seeds 4, ellipsoid, brown.—-An unmistakable 
species; and, as Engelmann noticed, agrees well with Roxburgh's figure and descrip- 
tion: the puzzle is whence Roxburgh got it; he says it grew abundantly on Crota- 
laria juncea, a plant cultivated at or near the sea-level. 
6. C. europea, Linn.; Syme Engl. Bot. t. 927; flowers in sessile 
globose heads, alya tuba shortly obconie lobes 5-4 ovate-triangular, styles 
shorter than the linear stigmas, capsule circumsciss near the base along a 
thickened rim, Engelm. Cuscut. 18, 19, with syn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. ir. 
, major, O, DBauA.; Chois. in. DC. Prodr. ix. 452. C. aggregata, Roxb. Fi. 
Ind. i. 447. C. capillaris, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc, xx. 86. 
TEMPERATE Himataya, alt. 5-12,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim ; Thomson 
Edgeworth, J. D. H., &e.—Disrrip. Europe, Western and Central Asia. i 
nea ly qs in. Corolla-tube i5 in. ovoid; lobes 5-4, ovate or triangular b scales 
La the base of the filaments, obtuse or emarginate, crenulate or subentire. Capsule 
i2 10., fragile. Seeds usually 4, ellipsoid, brown. 
7. €. planiflora, Tenore; Engelm. Cuscut. 14 with syn. ; flowers in 
“ssile globose heads, sepals ovate-oblong, corolla-tube longer than hag calyx, 
th leg shorter than the linear stigmas, capsule circumsciss near the base a. y; 
ickened rim. Boiss, Fl. Orient. iv. 116. C. minor, C. Bauh. ; Chois. «n 17 
Bot” ix. 453. C. brevistyla, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. 79 ; Engelm. Cuscut. 17 ; 
88. Fl. Orient. iv, 117. . 
Puis TROPICAL W. Haraya, alt. 1-6000 ft.; frequent, descending to the Punjab 
los. RIS. Mediterra Region, Central Asia. m . 
Closely resembling "C europea. Calyx and corolla often glistening Boni sheir 
plage tissue; whence the Indian examples have been regarded M the wages 
wrongly with O. capitata. Corolla-tube usually much longer t 
