' ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA, 485 
branes, with 4-7 or 8 irregular teeth, inserted below the 
middle of the tube; perhaps sometimes entirely wanting; 
ovary slightly conic, with styles scarcely reaching to the 
throat, just exsert in fruit. In the figure in the Flora Pern- 
viana the cylindric corolla and the circumscissile capsule are 
correctly given.—Peru, on shrubs, and on Medicago sativa, 
Ruiz & Pavon! not found since. 
31. ©. PRISMATICA, Pavon! Mss.; Choisy! Cuse.182, t. 3, 
£ 2; DC. Prod. IX. 457.—A very distinct species, and one 
of the few without any scales. Choisy’s figure as well as de- 
Scription is not very correct. Bracts lanceolate acumin 
flowers subsessile, 3 lines long; gs So longated, obconic 
feshy, deep red, 5-angled from the decurrent earinw of the 
{gece osha naan cuspidate it fee e lobes; corolla al- 
+6 times shorter than the tube, diols obtuse, somewhat 
volute at the margins, crenulate; anthel 
affinity with the last : 
dantly distinguished by al the cbse acters above enumerated. 
ae e : 
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