Cuseuta. 773 
a) Styles longer than the ovary ...... 1. .C. planifiora. 
b) Styles much shorter than the ovary. 
a Corolla lobes Ovavem eat cms. steers 2. C. brevistyla. 
2, Orolla-lObes ChaneUlar -. a,c << os 3. C. Epilinum. 
II. Style a short tubercle or 0. Stigmas as long 
BS UNC COVARY Cs. sca ewan eke cn i 6 Iles, Fg 4. C. arabica. 
B. Style 1. Stigma capitate 2-lobed....... 5. C. monogyna. 
1080. (1.) Cuscuta planiflora Ten. Flor. Nap. HI (1824—1829), 
p- 250 tab. 220 fig. 3. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.116. — Rchbch. Ie. 
XVIU, tab. 142 fig. VU. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. ’Eg., p. 108 
no. 708. — Engelm. in Trans. Acad. Sc. I, p. 464. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. @Eg., p. 259. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Mar- 
maric., p.659 no. 221. — Cuscuta brevistyla A. Braun ex A. Rich. 
Tentam. Flor. Abyss. I], p. 79. — Stems very slender, reddish. 
Flowers sessile or subsessile, in dense globose sessile clusters, 5 to 
8 mm in diam. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, about 2 mm long; lobes 
5, ovate, obtuse to subacute, about as long as the tube. Corolla 
slightly exceeding the calyx, globose-urceolate; lobes 5, ovate, ob- 
tuse, pale pink or whitish, spreading, rarely as long as the tube; 
scales broad, shortly fimbriate above. Stamens 5, shorter than the 
lobes. Styles shorter than the linear stigmas; style and stigma 
together barely 1 mm long. Capsule regularly circumscissile at the 
base. Seeds 4, brown; testa granulate. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. Mariut; Alexandria-West and -Hast; Abukir. — M. p. 
Brullus; Qatiya. — Frequently parasitic on [Helianthemum cahiricum. 
— N.d. Cairo, parasitic on Trifolum alexandrinum; on Alhagi. — 
D. 1. Abu-Roash. 
Widely distributed throughout the whole Mediterranean basin. 
1081. (2.) Cuscuta brevistyla A. Br. ex Rich. Tentam. Flor. 
Abyss. II, p. 79. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., Supplem. p. 768. 
— Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., p. 259. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, 
p- 117. — An annual herb. Stem branching. Flowers sessile; calyx 
scarcely shorter than the corolla, parted nearly to the base into 
ovate, obtuse lobes; corolla-lobes ovate, spreading; scales small, 
truncate, sometimes bilobed; styles about as long as the somewhat 
club-shaped stigmas. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. Mariut; Alexandria-West and -East. — M. p. Between 
el-Grady and Sheyk Zoyéd. — D. a. sept. Northern and Southern 
Galala; Wady Sateri; Wady Om Ruthi. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
1082. (3.) Cuscuta Epilinum Weihe Prodrom. Monast. (1824), 
p. 75. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.118. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. 
