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albumen, the broad ovate-cordate cotyledons corrugate- seh rounded 
at the apex, the terete radicle geniculately inflexed, inferior. — Bonamia 
Menziesii, Gray, in Proe. Am. Ac. V, 336. — Mann, Enum. no. . — The 
black episperm will on first sight of the dry seed be taken for the testa, but 
on soaking in hot water it becomes soft and can be easily rubbed off 
with the finger, when the crimson testa appears to view. In Gray's 
description the episperm is called crimson by mistake. 
Oahu! on the western slope of Kaala and in Wailupe; Molokai! Kalae; Lanai! 
W. Maui (Remy); very rare. Mann reports his plant from Kaala as a tall climber 
+30 ft. in length; my plants appeared more like stragglers 
5.. CRESSA, L. 
Sepals 5. Corolla funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, the lobes imbricate in the 
bud. Stamens exserted. Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled. Styles 2, with capitate 
stigmas. Capsule often 1-celled, with a single seed. Cotyledons linear, 
twice plaited. 
A genus of a single species. 
retica, L. — DC. Prod. IX, 440. — A stemless perennial, the 
prostrate spreading branches about 6‘ long, canescent with short hairlets. 
Leaves sessile, ovate or elliptical, 2—4"' long, somewhat acute, canescent. 
Flowers single and subsessile in the axils of the upper leaves. Calyx 
1'/s—2", pubese cent, the sepals ovate- lanceolate. Corolla white, its tube 
included in the calyx, little longer than the spreading oblong lobes. 
Stamens inserted at the middle of the tube. Top of ovary and styles 
hairy. Seeds glabrous, shining, with a crustaceous testa. 
Oahu! Pearl River bay, east of the inlet; Molokai (Remy). Widely st through 
the warmer regions of both Worlds. In our plant the flowers are not spica 
6. CUSCUTA, L. 
Sepals 5, rarely 4, distinct or partly connate. Corolla campanulate, 
with a short 5-, rarely 4-lobed limb, the lobes imbricate 
2-celled, 4-ovuled. Styles 2, distinct « or more or less united. ‘Stigmas 
Pp 
versely. Embryo Aetieous cotyledons, spiral or curved round a fleshy 
albumen. — Leafless parasites, without ‘chlorophyll, with threadlike twining 
stems, bearing sessile or cymose clusters of small white or pink flowers. 
gta 80 species, dispersed over every part of the globe except the extreme no 
and sou 
1. C, Sicdetliasn, Chois. Cuscut. p. 184, tab. 5. — DC. Prod. IX, 458. 
—4", the pedi- 
cels 1” long, with a scaly bract at their bases. Calyx scarious, shining, 
campanulate, 11/2, deeply 5-cleft with ovate rather acute lobes, sometime 
