ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. 479 
a soiree inclusis ; ce pe corolla marcescente tota involu- 
ta irregula 
At the Ani os Obra, eilla, Peru, Alex. Matthews! 661 in 
Hb. Hooker.—Very nearly allied to the last, distinguished by 
the loose few-slow res inflorescence, the small and apparently 
deep purple (a solor not noticed in any other species) flow- 
ers, the t ere eae not imbricate, lobes, the’? short tube of the 
corolla and the still more broadly subulate styles; by the 
styles it is distinguished from C. umbellata, which it otherwise 
ommpeteett resembles.—Flowers 11-1} lines long; single 
seeds globose 
§ 2 Obtusilobe. 
Py fon slender, penny seu illary ; flow rs large or small, usually thin 
membranaceous ; lobe i 
species ; scales absent in one (the last) siioden; styles short in the first, 
very long in the 4 last species ; capsule opening late and mostly irregu- 
larly ; dead corolla enveloping the capsule except in the first species. 
* Flowers short. 
' 25. C. APPLANATA, n. sp.: e filiformi; floribus brevi- 
ter pedicellatis vel. potoala. ci ey in glomerulos densos se 
continuos congestis ; calycis campanulati tenuis lobis ovatis 
obtusis tubum corolle late campanulatum depressum equan- 
tibus; laciniis ovatis obtusis patulis demum reflexis tubo 
equilongis; antheris oblongis filamenta vi bulata 
#quantibus; squamis maximis ca faucem ex- 
ameter fen — ae 
— strung like beads; 6— wers in 
ee tae thin texture and pt 
