Cuscuta, TETRANDRIA DIGYNIA, | 447 
season, Stems or branches filiform, succulent, twining, very 
ramous, leafless, smooth, yellow. Racemes numerous, Flow- 
ers white, short-pedicelted. Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets cor- 
date, permanent. Corol ; tube cylindric ; mouth five-part- 
ed ; division reflexed. Neciary of five scales, which surround 
the germ, and are inserted into the bottom of the tube. F%- 
laments five, very short. Anthers oval, appearing half above 
the mouth of the tube. Style scarcely any. i two, 
large, fleshy, expanding, pointed. 
2. C. aggregata, R. 
Head round, sessile, composed of ten or twelve perfectly 
sessile, aggregate, pentandrous flowers. | 
~ Accidentally introduced into the Botanic garden amongst 
flax seed from Bagdad. When the faz plants were a few 
inches high, this little delicate, leafless, filiform, round, yel- 
low parasite began to make its appearance, adhering i in such 
quantities to their stems and’ leaves, as to sete -uapapene 
ina very short — of time. | | 
8. C. suleata, R, nia | 
-Peduncles im fascicles, each Sting a few pentandrous, 
sessile flowers, with a fleshy furrowed calyx. Capsule two- 
seeded, surrounded by the deeply grooved calyx. 
_ A native of Bengal, appears adhering to Amaranthus ole- 
raceus, and some other plants, during the cool season. Is a 
plant of small size, of a pale yellow colour eaters pee 
fectly smooth, — , ce 
Peduncles generally collected in small, remote fascicles of 
_ two, three, four, or more, each supporting from two to four, 
small, ‘sessile, white mares acme ane 
oviths Wee six’ to pin Jeigth eee edi of hs cove. 
Corol; tube short, Border five-cleft; divisions oval, obtuse, 
reflexed. Nectarial scales five, below the insertion of the 
filaments, divided nearly to the base, into many, fine, filiform 
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