159] NORTH AMERICAN AND WEST INDIAN CUSCUTAYUNCKER 69 



Cuscuta veatchii Brandegee 

 C. veatchii Brandegee, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., II, 2:189, 1889. 



Stems medium to slender. Flowers glabrous, about 2 mm. long, 

 pentamerous, on pedicels shorter than the flowers, single or in clusters of 

 two to five, forming small lateral umbels; calyx membranous, longer than 

 the corolla tube ; lobes ovate-deltoid, overlapping, acute, denticulate ; corolla 

 campanulate; lobes ovate and acute to lanceolate and acuminate, edges 

 denticulate, as long as the tube, slightly overlapping, spreading; scales 

 thin, rather difl&cult to study, reaching the filaments or infrequently shorter, 

 fringed with medium length processes, bridged at about the middle; 

 stamens on filaments shorter than or equalling the oval anthers; styles 

 about as long as the globose-ovoid ovary; stigmas capitate. Capsule 

 globose-ovoid, carrying the withered corolla at the apex; seeds, usually 

 but one in each capsule, roundish, light brown, pitted(?); hilum terminal. 

 The embryo is enlarged at the plumule (?) end into a large round knob, as 

 in C. denticulata. 



This species is in many respects similar to C. denticulata, but dififers in 

 its more deltoid calyx lobes and in the flowers being somewhat pedicellate. 

 (Rare and exceptional specimens of C. denticulata are also somewhat pedi- 

 cellate.) 



Cuscuta veatchii typica 

 [Figures 48 a-e and 60] 



Corolla lobes deltoid-ovate, acute; anthers oval, on short filaments; 

 scales ordinarily about reaching the filaments. 



Type locality: Ubi, Lower California. Range: From southern 

 California to Lower California. 



Specimens examined: United States: California; The Needles (Jones 3862), San 

 Diego Co. (Orcutt). 



Mexico: Lower California; Santa Maria (Brandegee in 1889), Ubi (Brandegee 

 in 1889, the type, in Univ. Calif. Herb, as sheet 105,066), San Roquis (Brandegee in 1889). 



Cuscuta veatchii apoda n. var. 

 [Figure 48 f] 



Corolla lobes lanceolate, acute to acuminate, slightly longer than the 



tube; scales shorter than the tube; anthers oval-oblong, sessile. 



Type locality: Las Vegas, Nevada. Range: Nevada. 



Specimens examined: United States: Nevada; Las Vegas (Goodding 2296, Wooton 

 in 1916, the tjT>e, in the U. S. Nat. Herb, as sheet 768,922, Brandegee in 1915), Sodaville 

 (Brandegee in 1913). 



Cuscuta subinclusa Durand & Hilgard 

 [Figures 47, 73 and 147] 



C. subinclusa Durand & Hilgard, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil, II, 3:42, 1855. Engelmann, 



Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 1:500, 1859. 

 ?C. ceanothi Behr, Proc. CaUf. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1:17, .854. 



