ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. 483 
r flowers (14-21 lines long), er more ee] ly fim- 
nee scales, often exsert styles, “ ge or rail 
ge ._ This is C. spectabilis, Choisy! Cuse. 187, t. 5, f. 1; 
. Prod. IX. 459, from Bahia, Salzmann! 351; Seca 
oa and C. globulosa, Bentham!” Bot. Sulph. 138, from Aca- 
i ; the specimens from Surinam, Hostm ann! 464, one of 
viteau’s! from Hayti, and —_ — 1994, from 
Cuba, the largest of all, may be referred here. 
C. Americana, Lin. and of most reies on the Flora of 
North America, comprises besides this several North Ameri- 
can ae 2h sg ag Gronovit, C. arvensis and C. com- 
pacta. C. is C. A icana, 
~" 80. C. putea: Rue Pa avon, as oe by the au- 
thors, is a rare form of a species — un er different — 
more or less 
considerably shocte than the tube, sen nite small and in- 
distinct; ovary small, globular or conic, with very long styles, 
y distingui 2 
larger dlongated and exsert contin 
@ GRANDIFLORA: flowers large, we hues thas an- 
thers 6 on very short filaments or sessile; scales long and nar- 
*ow, almost entirely adnate, rarely oo reaching the 
pa : a | 
anthers or shorter; ovary and ca | rarel 183, 
what | conic. C. Popayanensis. HB. KT! n. sp. iii. ; 
DC. Frod. IX. 460, of which Kunth already mentions the 
name of : Hg 
