59 ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. [509] 
i. a Sais tt linear ati Tien ash hilu 
§ 3. Lepidanche. 
rs pedicelled or, mostly, closely sessile ; sepals free, similar to the. 
cudnle sterile bracts, i imbricate ; ovary capsule more or less 
conic, thickened and fleshy at the apex; withered corolla covering the 
capsule like a hood.—Zepidanche, Eng. Sill. ‘Soar. 48, p. 343. 
* Flowers pedicelled, loosely paniculate. 
ee cus syed ae in Bost. Journ. n. h., 
oval, with a thick stylopodium ; caps thick and ‘end: 
est flowers, and almost orbieular sepals, 
63. C. BRACTEATA, n. sp.: caulibus tenuiter filiformibus ; 
yeh spiciformibus paniculatis ; ; pedunculis pedicellisque 
is bracteis pluribus ovatis obtusis, superioribus lanceola- 
tis aiiguitld stipatis; sepalis similibus longioribus acuminatis 
serrulatis tubum corolle subcylindricum equantibus; laciniis 
lanceolatis acuminatis tubo brevioribus reflexis; staminibus 
multo brevioribus, suche oblongo-ovatis filamento equi- 
longis; squamis ovatis crispa to-laceris medio tubo adnatis 
faucem miei er get stylis capillaceis ovario minuto multo 
longioribus inclusis, s tigmatibus ovato-capitatis. 
yaz, Brazil, parasitic on shrubs, Gardner! 3348 in. Hb. 
ooker. 2 Similar to the last, but flowers much larger, 2 
lines long in a rather contracted inflorescence; peduncles re- 
