Io! 
37 ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. [487] 
consists of an intricate mass of deep yellow stems with few 
heads of flowers just developing; a few is alf ripe, but alrea- 
d a fruits were seen. owers 14-2 lines long. 
is plant seems to be nearly allied +6: C. umbellata, but 
is distinguished by more compact heads, larger flowers, broad 
and imbricate obtusish lobes, ete. The lacinie of the co- 
rolla, always elongated, are in some flowers acutish, in others 
almost obtuse. 
34. C. partira, Choisy! Cuse. 188, t. 5, f. 3; DC. Prod. 
IX. 460.—Brazil, Blanchet! 3047; Gardner! 2684 ; i 
ward to Bolivia, Weddell! 3483 and 3611, and northward t 
Venezuela, Maracaibo, Karsten! and Curagao, Friedrichsthal ! 
375, b; usually low, on herbaceous plants, Leguminose, 
Male ace, Huphorbiacew, ete.—Cymes compound, paniculate; 
bracts ovate lanceolate, often crenate; flowers small, usually 
less than 1 line long, more or less glandulous and filled with 
coloring matter, deep-red, when dry, like C. miniata ; calyx 
divided almost to the base, lobes lanceolate acute ; lobes of 
corolla of same shape, at length reflexed with the points in- 
rved; tube of corolla at last ventricose, enveloping the 
capsule, divided by grooves which correspond to the sta- 
o 5 separate externally convex compartments as it 
were ; ales as long as the tube or shorter, deeply fringed ; 
ca illary styles much longer than the small globose ovary, 
pa wr ometimes recurved on the fruit ; capsule very thin, 
hyaline, irregularly cireumscissile with a wide opening ; seeds 
0.5-0.6 lines long, obliquely | ovate, or, where only one in a 
former seeds perpendicular, i in the latter transvers 
The specimens from Bolivia have larger, less glandalous, 
. UMBELLATA, Humb. Bonp. Kunth! n. gen sp. III. 
121; "DO. Prod. IX. 460; C. parviflora, Willd.! Hb. nro 
3163. This species seems ’to have been unknown to all later 
cies are arranged in <a compound fasciculate cymes, the 
ultimate divisions formi umbells of 3-5-7 flowers supported 
by a single ovate lanceolate bract; pedicels usually longer 
than the flower; flowe the lobes of the corolla erect, 
