TSI 
67 ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. [517] 
founded it with C. monogyna, which he has collected on wil- 
The inflorescence forms on spikes after the manner 
of this section, but shorter, only 4--$ inch long, flowers 24--23 
nulate, a little shorter than the tube, spreading, or reflexed ; 
ovate-cordate anthers very large, subsessile a little below 
she throat ; scales oval, fimbriate, reaching from the base to 
the middle of the tube; style as long as the conic ovary 
and the Pe elongated, somewhat ligulate (linguiformia, 
a age as. 
PF Tees, Choisy! Pl. Zoll., 1854, p. 130 & PI. 
Jay. 1868 p. 30.—This species extends in several forms along 
the whole coast ft ot and to Japan; all the different va- 
short cupulate calyx, with 
by the slotted style, with 2 get! cot or tea conic or 
— stigma s. Flowers 2}--3 lines long. 
ide SOIDEA: lowers eetwlia aa several bracts 
ing | aime to ‘che base of the skins; ; ey ies beget than the 
conic ovary; stigmas short and conic.—This is Choisy’s ori- 
g ‘sponica, and also C. reflexa, var. densiflora, Ben- 
tham! in Hb.—Japan, Zollinger! 355; Hongkong, Abbé 
Furet! Maj. Champion! 457.—C. la, Maximowitsch! 
t . Amur. ined., from the lower Amur, is exactly 
m e 
a same plant, with shorter scales, ee rather oval than conic 
tigmas. From @. lw iformis, var. Asiatica, to which it 
aos approaches, it is distinguished by the short calyx and 
the shape and insertion of the stamens. 
Var. 8. PANICULATA: flowers on short rt pedicels, scarcely 
bracted at panes in a loosely sania panicle, oP inches long 
and of the same diameter; narrow scales reac from the 
base to oe middle - the tube; seipinns conic-snbulate, as 
long as tyle and as ova pent ll colorans, Maxim.! |. ¢.— 
rie Kirlow! in Hb. Fischsi, now Hb. H. B. Petrop. 
? FISSISTYLA: inflorescence same as last ; — 
t their lower third; tigmas conic.—Hongkong, as. 
Wright! U.S. North Pacif Expl. Exp., nro. 486. 
