(AAG TETRANDRIA DIGYNIA. -  Cuscuta, 
‘downy, three inches long.’ Panicles terminal, umbel-like; di- 
visions two-forked. Flowers very small, yellow. =» 
HERMAPHRODITE FLowers solitary, sessile in the divi- 
sions of the panicle. | Ca/ya superior, four-leaved; leaflets 
unequal ; exterior pair small, oval, bractiform, caducous; i- 
terior pair large, wedge-shaped, three-toothed, permanent, in- 
creasing in size with the pericarp into two long, membranace- — 
ous wings. Corol none. Nectary consisting of four clavate, 
yellow glands, Filaments four, longer than the calyx, imsert-_ 
ed alternately with the nectarial glands into ‘a perforated re- 
ceptacle. 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, end- 
ing in two long, obtuse, hsirecolats; eveceaperseiued —— 
Seed one. © AE AY 
Obs. The wood of this tree which is white inde veld light, 
is employed to make Catamarans (floats), when to be had, 
in preference to any other. 
TETRANDRIA DIGYNIA. ee Liga 
CUSCUTA. Schreb. “gen N22." oe 
_ aly four or Sxe-lenvet or parted. rt oe ple. 
yess, superior, Wecdiak dreamatate aalbe gs 
rolled round the perisperm, with an inferior radicle. 
1..C. iin Roxb. Corde pli il. sah 104. J E siete ‘ 
_ Parasitical; flowers racemed, pentandrous, ‘Seales of the 
wots bearded. Capsuies four-seeded, ro 
