Tas. 6566. 
CUS CUTA REFLEXA. 
Native of India. 
Nat. Ord. ConvOLVULACEEZ.—Tribe CuscuTrEx. 
Genus Cuscuta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 881.) 
Cuscura (Callianche) reflera; caule funiculari levi v. verrucoso, floribus capitatis 
v. laxe racemosis, calycis tubo sepe verrucoso brevi, lobis brevibus rotundatis, 
corolla tubo cylindraceo calyce duplo longiore, lobis 5 brevibus patenti-reflexis, 
squamis ad basin fere corolla insertis oblongis v. obovato-oblongis incurvis dense 
fimbriato-marginatis, staminibus ore coroll# insertis filamentis brevissimis 
antheris breviter oblongis, ovario ovoideo-globoso, stylo brevi, stigmatibus 
oblongo-clavatis, capsula circumscissa 4-sperma, septis tenuissimis, seminibus 
compressis. 
C. reflexa, Roxb. Cor. Plant, t.104; F7. Ind. vol.i.p. 446; Choisy in DC. Prodr. 
vol, ix. p. 454; Engelmann in Trans, Acad. Sec. St. Louis, vol. i. p. 518. 
. reflexa var. verrucosa, Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 150. 
. grandiflora, Wall. Cat. n. 1318. 
. macrantha, G. Don Gen. Syst. vol. iv. p. 305; DC. 1. e. 455. 
- megalantha, Steud. Nomencl. 
. elatior, Choisy Monegr, Cuscut. 
. verrucosa, Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 6. 
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Though seldom seen in cultivation, this curious plant 
was first introduced into England in 1823, when it was 
raised in Colvill’s then celebrated Nursery, from seeds sent 
from the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, and figured in Sweet's 
British Flower Garden as Cuscuta verrucosa. In the follow- 
ing year it flowered in the Edinburgh Botanical Garden, 
from seeds sent from the Madras Presidency, and was 
figured and described in the Flora Exotica under its 
proper specific name. It is a-very common Eastern 
Asiatic plant, occurring in China, Japan, and throughout 
the Peninsula and the Gangetic valley, in Ceylon and the 
whole length of the Himalayas, ascending to 9000 feet in 
Sikkim, attaching itself to a great many different plants, 
and varying much in the stoutness of the stem, the most 
JUNE Ist, 1881. 
