Je _ eg oe 
Lobes of & xvpa; CG elibeohes 
ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. 505 
late gradually widening tube ; oes commonly short, spread- 
ing een with inflexed points; scales Sige; ovarium 
ovate or obovate, the upper part aint compact ; styles stout 
with large, SB Wy almost annie _—. capsule com 
monly enveloped by the corolla wil with 2-4 light bro wn, oval, 
mr mR truncate or rostra 0.6-0.7 line in  Teugth; 
hilum short, linear, deep vase or transverse, often wi 
raliating lines on the umbilicus. I distinguish the following 
Var. a, Brastnrana; C. racemosa ; Martius! itin. I. 286; 
Choisy! Cuse. 181, t. 8, f.1; DO. Prod. IX. 456; flowers 
with few or scarcely any glands, of a rather membranaceous 
texture and pale color, with very short and obtuse lobes of 
ben and obtusish lobes of corolla; flowers usually 1} lines 
one. —Common about Rio and iawn in Brazil, on shrubs 
nobgestte lants; Martius! 941; Booz! Gaudichaud! 
"695. 
+ crags 5100, in part; Riedel, 
ar. 8, MINtaATA: CO. min niata, Martius! 1. ¢.3 var. minuta, 
Choiny! * wt e.; flowers of a thicker texture, idis hh, more or 
Martius! 1292; Ackermann! Mi- 
wr rater Pohl! 5100 in part; Vauthier ! 252; Lund! 
Var. y. Cumt1ana; ©. Chilensis, Bertero! in sched., not 
Ker; ¢. ee oat ene Ann. ‘Be. no he nat. er Ca 1840; 
& Pav.s @. Hontice Petter’ B Zeit ist, 708; ; 
it av.5 C. vis Abe or! ot. = p- ; B "4 
Spettned oer eae na, Wend. Fi. 
‘calyx ovate, seer = ong ——" of 
