86 SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES 
Var. y. cintaris, C. ciliaris, Hohenacker! in Pl. Kotschy, Boissier! Diag. Or. II. 3, 129, is a stouter, larger- 
flowered northern form of the same plant, with shorter and stouter styles ; scales spatulate, or sometimes in the same 
flower bifid, less deeply and finely fimbriate; flowers 17-2} lines long. — Mossul, Kotschy! 431; Kurdistan, Grant! in 
Hb. Torrey. — The specimen of Herb. Wight. propr. ! 2408, is the same thing from India. The largest-flowered form 
is preserved in Hb. Mus. Paris, under the name of C. exigua, collected at the Selenga River, in Siberia, by Demidoff, a 
cotemporary of Pallas ; lobes of calyx and corolla in this specimen more distinctly crenulate than in most other forms 
of the species. 
7. (C. Trxcrorra, Martius! in Herb.: caulibus filiformibus subfunicularibus ; floribus globosis pedicellatis in 
glomerulos laxos umbelliformes congestis; calycis cupulati lobis orbiculatis imbricatis tubum corolle 
campanulatum quantibus ; laciniis tubo equilongis ovatis obtusis basi imbricatis erectis seu pene [481 (31)] 
patulis reflexive ; antheris ovatis filamento subulato brevissimo plerumque longioribus ; squamis late-ovatis 
fimbriato-laceris tubum squantibus seu paulo excedentibus incurvis ; stylis filiformibus ovario sania longioribus 
fere exsertis ; capsula irregulariter circumscissa corolla marcescente involuta tectaque. 
Mexico, usually, as it seems, on trees ; Oaxaca on Schinus molle, Karwinski! who relates that the natives use it 
under the name of “ Zaca-tlascalli” as a yellow dye, — and, indeed, the dried specimens tinge water, paper, etc., deep 
yellow, which I notice also in some other South American Cuscute ; San Luis Potosi, on the same species of tree, 
Dr. Gregg! in full bloom in December. — Flowers 2-24 lines long, in loose clusters, of six lines in diameter, which are 
gathered into long racemes ; intrastylar aperture small ; seed compressed, rounded, 0.6 lines in diameter. — The slender 
style and the shape of the capsule distinguish this species from the similar C. Jalapensis, the short flower and short 
style from C. floribunda, the circumscissile agg and larger flower from C. Gronovit, and the short filaments from all 
of them. A specimen, however, in the Hb. H. Bot. of St. eae collected by Karwinski on an oak “ betes een 
Victoria and the Rio Blanco,” has filaments as long as the anthers 
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28. C. FLorIBuNDA, HBK.! N. Gen. Sp. III. 123; DC. Prod. TX. 459.— The only specimens of this 
plant known to me, gathered by Bonpland! at the Bridge of Istla, in western Mexico, 3,000 feet high, are pre- 
served in the Royal Hb. at Berlin and in Hb. Willdenow, nro. 31598. They are in rather poor condition, and in ripe 
fruit only. Enough is left, however, to show that the plant is nearly allied to C. Popayanensis, as Kunth already 
states, but well distinguished by the short and thick, orbicular, deeply divided, broadly imbricate lobes of the calyx ; 
the deeply divided corolla; the oblong linear (obtuse, not acute, as Kunth has it) lacinize mist equalling in length 
the cylindric tube ; large oval scales deeply ne ree sean reaching to the throat ; styles twice as long as capsule, 
slender, long exsert in fruit; stylar portion of dissepiment elongated, almost reaching the base of the capsule ; seed 
0.8 lines long, narrow, triangular, and very rough. Flower with the lobes 3, or, when these are reflexed, 2 lines long. 
From C. tinctoria, to which it is even more closely allied, it may be distinguished by the long tube, the narrow laciniz, 
the long styles, and the long and narrow seeds. 
29. C. Americana, L. Sp. 180 pro parte; Jacq. Am. 30, p. 17; Choisy! Cusc. 186, t. 4, f. 4; [482 (32)] 
DC. Prod.IX. 459. C. graveolens, HBK.! N. Gen. Sp. III. 122. — This is the most common species of 
the West Indian Islands, parasitic mostly on shrubs and trees. It extends to the Pacific coast of Mexico, and on the 
Atlantic coast of South America from Venezuela to Brazil; rarely, as it would seem, leaving the neighborhood of 
the sea-coast, though Weddell found it in the province of Goyaz, in central Brazil. — Well characterized by the small, 
cylindric corolla, with short, very obtuse, almost always erect lacinie slightly protruding over, or sometimes almost 
enclosed by, the wide and deep cupulate calyx ; scales short, attached to the middle of the corolla, and usually not 
reaching to its throat ; styles very slender, mostly much longer than the very small globose ovary, exsert only in fruit; 
capsule late and irregularly circumscissile ; stylar portion of dissepiment reaching nearly to the base of the capsule ; 
seeds mostly solitary, filling the whole capsule, roundish, somewhat compressed; hilum forming a very short line, 
almost a point. 
The ordinary @. Americana has flowers 13-1} lines in length ; a thin, when dry, membranaceous and very wide 
calyx ; scales either truncate, sometimes almost bilobed, slightly dentate, or ip ale fimbriate ; styles usually 
included during flowering, more or less exsert in fruit. — Martinique, Sieber ! ; Hayti, Poitean! Ehrenberg! 
Antigua, Wullschlegel! with larger flowers; Portorico, Bertero! St. Thomas, Sere Holton! Yucatan, Linden! 
Venezuela, Humboldt! Karsten! Fendler! 2069 ; Surinam, Hb. Ac. Phil.! Brazil, Gardner! 1775; Blanchet! 736; 
Goyaz, Weddell! 2208. 
Different varieties may be distinguished according to the length of the pedicels, size of flower, texture of calyx, 
shape of scales, and os of styles; but they run into one another so that I, with twenty-five or thirty specimens 
eB: the whole range of the species before me, am unable to limit even pe varieties. The smallest form is 
C. conyesta, Bentham! Bot. Sulph. 138, from Acapulco: flowers crowded; scarcely more than 1 line long ; scales 
triangular, almost entire ; styles slender. A similar plant was collected by Dr. Gregg at Mazatlan ; flowers rather 
