ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. 473 
Cassuta Arabica, DesM. Et. 72.—A well marked a the 
eastern 
ore 0! din 
try by Bové! 354; Aucher-Eloy! 1418; s. Fischer! Kralik! 
ait betore all these by Lippi! in Hb. Vaillant, where it is 
ed as “Cuscuta sulphurei coloris AD flore ni- 
veo,” ete. Arabia, on the Sinai, Rueppell! Schimper! nro. 
140.—I can not see how it is possible to ascribe to it capitate 
stigmata, nor is the capsule exactly baccate; this last error, 
however, is easily accounted for, as only the fully ripe capsule 
will separate from the base, and with quite a small opening.— 
The Sinai plant, the mcrsete C. Arabica, has shorter pedicels, 
denser Samra cordate-sagittate anthers, and larger, even 
incurved, sca! Var. gyptiaca is distinguished by its 
longer soteoke looser umbel, rather poten. anthers, and 
smaller, often bifid, scales, which sometimes seem to be re- 
duced to mere teeth it_may possibly be the luxuriant form, 
a C. Trifolit and growing on schieased 
See. 3. Clistococca. 
This gta ¢ Aa resented by a single Asiatic species, is close- 
ps cape Saat, when er d from it and all its 
description, as - - goes 
astees well enough with the species I take for i hal a) 
Era Tino th only apts Caveat India bt as 
‘o be far from common there ; wc te ge or | 
to the mountain districts and on of from 6 
12,000 fick <'Fhe lanceolate lobes of the deeply af calyx ina 
corolla are covered with hemispherical or onic coin papil- 
le, nsisting of numerous very minute cells. Scal in the 
