* 
466 PUPETRANDRIA PÍGYNIA. Cuscuta, 
breadth various; but in general about five or six inehes each way.— 
Pétioles round, downy, three inches long.— Panicles terminal, um- 
bel-like ; divisions two-forked.— Flowers very small, yellow. 
“HERMAPHRODITE FLowERSs solitary, sessile in the divisions of 
the panicle.— Calyx superior, four-leaved ; leaflets unequal ; exterior. 
pair small, oval, bractiform, caducous ; interior pair large, wedge-- 
shaped, three-tooibed, permanent, increasing in size with the peri-- 
carp fito two long, membranaceous wings.— Coro/ none.— — Nectary: 
consisting of four clavate, yellow glands.— Filaments four, longer 
than the calix, inserted alternately with the nectarial glands mtoa | 
perforated receptacle. Anthers quadrangular, opening on each side 
with an oval lid.— Germ inferior, ovate. Style none. Stigma small, 
immersed in the perforation of the receptacle. of the filament and) 
nectarial glands.— Capsule globular, wrinkled, one-celled, one-valved, 
not opening spontaneously, size of a cherry, ending in two long, T ad 
-— lanceolate, membr anaceous wings.—Seed one. , 
10s. The wood of this tree which is white and very light, is em- 
pese to make Catamarans (floats), when to be had, in preference 
DIGYNIA. 
CUSCUTA. Schreb. Gen. N. 227. 
voee four or five-leavéd or ed. — repete. Germ 
perm, with an inferior iitide.' — i Hl, ca 
3 gui BD i27 i 
Er sé 
LC: reflexa, Roib. Coro. Pi. ii. N. 104. "o 
_ Parasitical ; ; flowers racemed, pentandrous. Scales ef the mectary 
bearded. Capsules four-seeded. = 
Beng. Huldi algusi-lyta, — 
` Telmg. Sitama- -[oorgonooloo. : 
mis; plant $ is m 7 Appearing c on any TU in s dé cite 
i ra $c «3 
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