ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. 515 
Affghanistan, Griffith! 682 & 684.—Vahl’s description, 
“dentibus corolle lanceolatis,” ete., does not exactly agree 
with our plant, nor is Sibthorp’ Fl. gree. t. 257, 
very correct; but the locality of the former and an 
thentie specimen of the latter (in Hb. at leave no doubt 
h had the plant in view which I formerly distin- 
guished as C. astyla.—The inflorescence is a compound spike 
I to the subglobose 2- orter than 
the oval or globose ovary; capsule 2-3 lines long, usuall 
oval and obtuse; seeds rarely more than 2, ovate, strong! 
rostrate, s — Mo. lit. is 
m with a somewhat elongated conic whi 
!—Flowers pedicell ores 
cence, slender, 24-23 lines long; corolla 2--2} lines in len zth 5 
nie oval, crenulate, | ape : et be, erect or s nad~ 
anthers, 
8. Esquamarta: pedicels as long as, or often longer, 
than the ealy ; oblong lobes of the corolla still more dis. 
Unctly crenate, not much shorter than the tube, spreading, 
twisted : ther ih 
