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23 ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. [473] 
Cassuta Arabica, DesM. Et. 72.—A well marked species, the 
most common one in Egypt and extending to the eastern 
shore of the Red Sea. It was collected in the former coun- 
try by Bové! 354; Aucher-Eloy! 1418; S. Fischer! Kralik! 
and before all these by Lippi! in Hb. Vaillant, where it is 
labeled as “Cuscuta sulphurei coloris Agyptiaca, flore ni- 
ineurved, scales. 5 
longer pedicels, looser umbel, rather orbicular anthers, and 
smaller, often bifid, scales, which sometimes seem to be re- 
duced to mere teeth; it may possibly be the luxuriant form, 
corresponding to C. Trifolii and growing on cultivated 
lants. 
Sec. 8. Clistococca. 
to be far from common there ; it is, on the contrary, confined 
mountain districts and to an elevation of from 6 to 
le, consisting of numerous very minute cells. Scales in the 
lower part of the tube, not reaching to the middle, rounded 
ball dentate. Styles as long as ovary, much shorter 
e, bu 
Rox- 
burgh; on the Himalaya, on some Artemisia, Jacquemont! 
1550; on Thymus, 7T—10,000 feet high, Thomson! in Ku- 
maun, 12,000 feet high, Strachney & Winterbottom! nro. 
