31 ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. [4st] 
laciniis tubo equilongis ovatis obtusis basi imbricatis —— 
seu demum patulis reflexive; a ntheri ris ovatis filament oa u- 
e 
incurvis; stylis filiformibus ovario depresso longioribus fere 
exsertis; capsula irr a circumscissa corolla marces- 
cente involuta tectaque 
Mexico, — as it seems, on trees: Oaxaca on Schinus 
molle, Karwinski! who relates that the natives use it un- 
w ar 
thered into long racemes; intrastylar aperture small ; 
seed compressed, rounded, 0.6 lines in diameter.—The s en- 
der style and the shape of the seen ~~ this spe- 
cies from the similar C. Jalapensis, the s rt flower and short 
_ style from C. floribunda, the creuinscssil capsule and larger 
flower from C. Gronovii, and the short fi eweae from all of 
them; a specimen, however, in es “Tb. of St. Peters- 
burg, collected by Karwinski on an oak « whch Victo- 
ria and the Rio Blanco” ie filaments as long as the anthers. 
** Flowers elongated. 
mbriate-laciniate, reaching the throat; styles twice as 
long as capsule, slender, long exsert in fruit; stylar portio: 
of dissepiment elongated, almost reaching the base of the 
capsule; seed 0.8 lines long, narrow, triangular and very 
uch. Flower with the lobes 3, or, when these are reflexed, 
2 lines long. From C. tinctoria, to which it is even more 
wens ick allied, it may be distinguished by the long tube, the 
lacinix, the long styles, and the long and narrow 
ole : 
