5T _ ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. [507] 
vioribus; laciniis ovatis obtusiusculis tubum equantibus pa- 
tulis reflexisve ; staminibus brevissim sim is, ant theri ris ovatis fila- 
cem attingentibus; ovario magno tu 
plente, stylis subnullis, stigmatibus ie a tirotinets; coneiia 
conica apice e corolla exserta. 
On the volcano of Antuco, Chili, Reynolds! 95, in Hb. 
aan ec only specimen seen is very one with only 
Near 
few ) 
possi with C. racemosa, but well distingnished by the large 
nic ovary with the thick and rudimentary but nevertheless 
pee unequal styles; flower 11-1} lines long, thick and 
eshy, yellow when dry, dotted with darker glands; whole 
plant ear f a ones yellow dye. 
caulibus filiformibus ; floribus 
lpaiiie late ovatis obtusis tubo equilongis, satentibes seu 
mum recurvis; staminibus brevioribus, antheris oblongis 
filamenta late subulata Psesteney squamis ime corolle ad- 
natis spatulatis laciniato-fimbriatis deste excedentibus con- 
niventibus; stylis ovario magno ovato a apiculato brevioribus 
fere inclusis, stigmatibus parvis; capsula depressa glandulosa 
marcescenti insidente supra nuda; seminibus ob 
Plentiful in the province of St. J ago de be La 
Plata, Tweedie! 1191, in Hb. Hooker.—Flow n short 
ure ; seeds bro 
ur 
uate or thle, hile Distiggsich hed by the shape of the 
flower, the pistils and stigmas from C. racemosa, var. nuda, 
m C. Gronovii, with which it is still more cloeely al- 
merica. 
lied and which it seems to represent in South 
0. C. Gronovn, Willd.! rel. R. 4 ar VI. 08 <haer 
DC. IX. 459; C. Am 
e om 0! 
can species, is characterized by the air ey rarely 
the first — com act inflorescence, which at las t be- 
comes densel 
the obtuse, 
