Cuscuta. TETRANDRIA DIGYNIAe . -467 
— Stems or branches filiform, succulent, twining, very'ramotis, leaf- 
dess; smooth, yellow.— Racémes bumeróus.—J'lomwers white, short 
pedicelled.—Calyz five-leaved ; leaflels.cordate, permanent.— Corals 
tube cylindric ; mouth five-parted ; division tetlexed.Nectary. of 
five. scales, which suwrowid the germ, and are inserted into the bot- 
-tom of the tube.— Filaments five, very short, Authers oval, appears 
ing half above the mouth of the tube.+-Siglé scarcely any. | Stigma 
- two, large, fleshy, expanding, pointed, 
2. = aggregata, R. 
Head round, sessile, composed of ten or twelve perfectly sessile, 
aggregate, pentandrous flowers. 
Accidentally. ‘introduced into the Botanic Garden amongst Flax 
eed from Bagdad. When the Flax plants were a few inches high, 
this little delicate, leafless, filiform, round,. yellow parasite | began to 
make its appearance, adhering i in such quantities to their stems and 
leaves, as to destroy whole beds in a very short space of tine. 
3. C. sulcata, R. 
Peduncles in. fascicles, ench decuit a few adco. sessile 
flowers, with a fleshy furrowed calyx. |— Capsule pebAgdé do siwa 
rounded by the deeply grooved, calyx. 5 
A native of Bengal, appears adhering to PM en i 
and some other plants, during the cool season. Is a plant of sthall 
size, of a pale yellow colour, throughout perfectly smooth, ^ — 
Peduncles generaily collected in small, remote fascicles of two 
three, four, or more, each supporting from two to four, small, sess 
sile, white flowers.— Bractes ovate.—Ca/yx five-toothed, permanent, 
becoming fleshy, and deeply ribbed, with from six to ten ribs, length 
of the tube of the corol.—Qorol. Tube short. Border five-cleft ; 
divisions oval, obtuse, tehesed: — Neclariul scales five, below the 
iusertion of the filaments, divided nearly to the base, into many, fine, 
filiform segments.— Filaments five, inserted a little below the fissures 
of the corol.—-Germ round. Styles two. Stigma naa as 
ee solitary. 
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