226 ci. CONVOLVULACE2E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Cuscuta. 



corolla campanulate deciduous, scales remote from the filaments, style very 

 short, stigmas lanceolate, capsule ^ ^ in. fleshy circumsciss near the base 4- 

 seeded. Wall. Cat. 1319; Hook. Exot. Fl.t. 160; Chois. Convolv. Or. 116, 

 and in DC. Prodr. ix. 454; Engelm. Cusc. 68. C. grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 1318. 

 Chois. Convolv. Or. 116. C. verrucosa, Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 6. C. Hqokeri, 

 Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 373. C. macrantha, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 305; 

 Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 455. 0. elatior, Chois. Convolv. Or. 177. 



Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-8000 ft., common ; Bengal Plain, abundant. CEYLON ; 

 Newera Ellia, Gardener. DISTRIB. Malaya. 



Branches stout, fleshy, forming dense yellow masses on low trees and shrubs. 

 Flowers 5-merous, in lax racemes 1-4 in. long, also clustered or subspicate ; pedicels 

 0- in., often verrucose; bracts ~ in. Sepals ^ in., nearly distinct, ovate, ob- 

 tuse. Corolla ^-^ by in., subcylindric ; lobes short-triangular, reflexed ; scales 

 prominent, emarginate, fimbriate. Stigmas wide apart. Capsule (unripe) acute 

 (corolla early deciduous), ultimately subquadrate obtuse tough fleshy. Seeds large, 

 black. 



VAR. anguina, corolla about half the usual size. C. anguina, Edgew. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. 87- W. Himalaya ; Edgeworth. The corolla varies a good deal' in 

 size from Wallich's C. grandiflora down to C. anguina, Edgw. ; the chain of inter- 

 mediates is nearly complete. 



2. C. g-ig-antea. Griff. Notul. i. 243 ; spikes short subracemose, corolla 

 cy^lindric deciduous, scales near its base remote from the filaments, style short, 

 stigmas Ungulate, capsule -f in. membranous circumsciss near the base 2- 

 seeded. Engelm. Ouscut. 66 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 122. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Fakoner. DISTRIB. Cabul. 



Much slenderer than C. reflexa. Flowers irregularly fascicled or shortly pedicelled, 

 not capitate ; bracts ^ i n ., ovate. Sepals ~ in., ovate, obtuse. Corolla - f in., tube 

 subcylindric ; lobes 5, subacute, erect or reflexed ; scales elliptic, shortly fimbriate. 

 Pistil nearly as of C. reflexa but smaller. Capsule ultimately subquadrate, obtuse. 

 Seeds broadly rhombiform, black. Founded on n. 683 of Griff. Herb. Propr. from 

 Cabul ; but the Kew Distrib. n. 5899, which also bears Griffith's ticket n. 683, is a 

 Eucuscuta with subglobose corolla and two styles, &c. 



STTBGENUS 2. Eucuscuta. Ovary and young fruit obtuse. Styles 2, 

 their bases approximate but separated by a narrow depression which in the 

 fruit becomes a pit. 



* Styles elongate, stigmas capitate. 



3. C. hyalina, Roth Nov. Sp. 100, not of Wight ; cymes or racemes 

 dense, calyx acutely lobed down, corolla-lobes lanceolate acuminate, scales 0. 

 Engelm. Cuscut. 40 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 121. C. sulcata, Wall. Cat. 1320 (as 

 to Heyne's examples marked C. hyalina). C. arabica, Wight Ic. 1371, not of 

 Fresen. 0. oxypetala, Boiss. Diagn. 2. iii. 130. 0. Boissieri, Stocks in Hook. 

 Kew Journ. iv. 173. 



SCINDE ; Stocks. DECCAN PENINSULA, Eottler ; Palamcottah, Wight. DISTRIB. 

 Beloochistan ; Abyssinia. 



Pedicels 0- . ; bracts ^ in., ovate. Calyx in. Corolla-tube y 1 ^ in. ; lobes 

 5, g in., acuminate and even caudate. Capsule ^ in., fragile, irregularly breaking up 

 from the base^normally 4-seeded. A strongly marked plant, certainly C. hyalina of 

 Eottler, Engelmann and Boissier ; but the description of Eoth, copied by Choisy (in 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 460), is greatly at variance with the characters of the plant. 



4. C. chinensis, Lamk. Enc. ii. 229; cymes or racemes dense, sepals 

 triangular- ovate subobtuse. corolla-lobes ovate obtuse or shortly acute, scales 

 shortly fimbriate. Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 457 ; Wight. Ic. t. 1373 ; Engelm. 



