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3. Those with styles united entirely or partly, and with 
capitate, ovate or conic stigmata. The species of this group, 
all distinguished by their large size and thick stems, princ- 
pally inhabit Asia; two extend into southern and east- 
Thi 
ens with a a Hitle altered characte | 
modifications in the form of the stigma ma the dehis- 
cence af the capsule furnish the basis for a further subdivision | 
of the three principal groups. I will here only say, that in | 
in Gram proper the capsule is almost always circumseissile; | 
in 
enn 
The following sections are proposed : 
A. Cuscuta Group. 
1. Eveuscura, Styles nearly as corns ee and as thick or ri 
: . Ca 3 
versely without a regular joi separatio! - 
3. Rig wihnaernt —_ styles longer than the short subalate 
ba B. Grammica noaibak bs 
5, Evoramarca. Stigmata capitate ; capone re less irregt 
6. CLisTo¢RAMMIC gmata ; capsule baceate. 
7. ar oinegt Top pe nah rgd lobed at the upper : 
2 Monogyna Group. 
a ee ee tate or te, united, or 
s. Cateraxene. “sdgmata cone, oF ‘almost s —_—o me 
ae ‘See. 1. Hucuscuta. — 
Style ditions 6 tieminatin in filiform: sti igmata ¢ 
length or shorter, rarely ei - of the same 
the i es or ve vards th end. | Sey aout 
