278 YUNCKER: NEW SPECIES OF CUSCUTA FROM PERU 
rium (sheet No. 517, 559); a duplicate is in the author’s 
herbarium. 
v Cuscuta rubella sp. nov. 
tems slender. Flowers 2—2.5 mm. long, sessile, in dense, 
small, few-flowered glomerules; calyx red, some what fleshy, 
shorter than the corolla tube, deeply = aevided and loose about 
CHD UULUU ed part, m ; 
Ar ahs C long 
A gag = the stamen attachments, 
| papillate in the lower part 
of the tube; lobes shorter 
than the tube, triangular, 
D E - acute, upright or spreading; 
an 
Fic. 2. CuscuTa RUBELLA Yuncker. sile on very short filaments, 
A. Flower, X 5. B. Corolla, x 5. C. or sessile; scales reaching 
Opened corolla, X 5. D. Opened calyx, the anthers, narrowly ob- 
x5. E. Ovary, X 5. F. Individual scale, long, fringed with few, short 
X 10. processes, bridged low; sub- 
u 
the ovary giving it a conical appearance. Mature capsules not 
seen but evidently they would be circumscissile and carry the 
withered corolla about them. 
The flowers of this species are very attractive with their red 
calyxes and corollas and bright yellow anthers. It is closely 
allied with the foregoing species, but differs in having smaller, 
sessile flowers with fleshy, deeply divided calyxes and with oval, 
obovate or spatulate calyx lobes. 
Collected by McBride and Featherstone (Ne. 371) at Matu- 
cana, Peru, April 12-May 3, 1922. The type is in the Field Mu- 
seum Herbarium (sheet No. 516,906); a duplicate is in the 
author’s herbarium. 
DEPauw UNIVERSITY 
