4go 
[476] TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 26 
single — seed, 0.7 lines long; flower 1-1} lines long — 
C. Americana, Thun b. Prod. 32, not of Linneus, is the same 
as his Te r C. Africana—Our sae’ was collested by Drege! 
010 and labeled by him C. Africana, d ; itis Ecklon & Zey- 
! 22, 70, 10. 
her’s oT schinoides, Lin. sp. 1662, is, as 
the figure i in Nov. Act. t. 5, f. 1, shows, this species, 
arasitic on Myric na. C fusiformis, Willd. rel. i 
a Apeiian a 
.& §. VI. 209, an here by aang oF 2 eae: for C. 
funiformis, as spelt in Willd. Herb. nro is Cus 
cuta but a Cassyta from the Cape, as Seuebecuda a long 
since po 9 
C. Capensis, Choisy! Cusc. 175 t. 1, f. 4, and DC. Prod. IX, 
454, is a large form of this species ; flowers 21-23 lines long, 
calyx smoother and shorter, lacinie longer, somewhat acut- 
ish, scales smaller; it bears the same relation to C. Africana 
that C. Trifolii ago ae C. Epithymum—Drege ! 7833, Dr. 
Thom! Dr Alexander 
Sec. 5. Hugrammica. 
Styles of Capea burst length, subulate or ee sea 
or less re 
capitate. rsting transversely m 
ly; in C. is regular fewsiuineiseits.” Seeds oom 
only one oe in each apeatoy os or flattened, trun- 
cate at fen, or hooked ; hilum forming a transverse or oblique, 
rarely a perpendicular line, often very shee or reduced to a 
point. 
The inflorescence is quite variable, a few-flowered 
cymes, or compound racem me mbelliform cymes 
with pedicelled flowers, or compac a sists with swt baeaete 
ry pedicels or flowers. The corolla remains at the base or on 
the Pes of the capsule or scanb lovely envelops it. 
species of this pare inhabit South America, the 
Wee Tn ies, and Mexico; one (C. umbellata) extends into 
the southwestern parts of the United States, and two (C. 
odontolepis and C. Na of ag. are peculiar to that region ; 
§ 1. Subulate. 
Styles froin and reddy 2 subulate from a broad base; flowers mostly 
large an xture ; scales wanting in one (the first) species ; 
po: ceaeelaal na whole or the greater part of the ri in all 
but the first; capsule opening readily by more or less r ircum- 
scission. 
