104 COLLECTED DESCRIPTIONS OF CUSCUTA. 
305; DC. Prod. IX. 455. C. megalantha, Steud. Nom. (C. elatior, Choisy! Cusc. 177. — Flowers of the largest size ; 
lacinie 4 or sometimes only } the length of the tube ; anthers elongated, on very short filaments i is from the 
tube below the throat; stigmas glanguie, subulate, Rivisieate: usually on a very short style. 
doubt Roxburgh’s aicinal C. reflexa, as his figure and description, “stigmata large, spreading, piney » [519 (69)] 
prove. —In the temperate as well as the tropical parts of India, from the Himalaya, Wallich ! 8 & 
13192; Lady Dalhousie! Jacquemont! 1109 & 2183; Strachney & Winterbottom! 1 & 2; ate Hooker, f. & 
Thomson ! Sikkim, the same! Khasia, the same! to the low lands of the coast of Coromandel, Roxburgh, and to Ceylon, 
Gardner! 616; Thomson! and Java, Zollinger! 2839.— The specimens from the islands are remarkably stout, and 
have a larger calyx than the ordinary form. It often occurs with verrucose bracts, pedicels, and calyx or even verrucose 
stems; this is C. verrucosa, Sweet, Fl. Gard. t. 6, not Engelm.; C. Hookeri, Sweet, Hort. Br. p. 290; C. reflexa, var, 
verrucosa, Hook.! Fl. Exot. t. 150. 
8. BRacHystiema. C. reflexa, Wallich! Cat. in part ; Edgeworth! in Linn. Trans.; Choisy, DC. Prod. 1. c.; 
and most authors, not Roxb. (. pentandra, Heyne! in Hb. H. B. Petrop.— Flowers smaller ; laciniee 4 or 4 the length 
of the tube; anthers shorter, sessile at the throat of the corolla; stigmas short, conic, closely sessile, erect. — Calcutta, 
Gaudichaud! 129, and valley of the Ganges in general, Jacquemont! 149 & 2520, de Silva! in Wall. Cat. 13191, to the 
Punjab and the western Himalaya, Hooker, f. & Thomson ! 
Jacquemont’s 149, from Bengal, has the corolla and anthers of var. a., and the short erect stigmas of var. 8.; style 
distinct, almost as long as the stigmas. 
C. anguina, Edgeworth! Trans. Linn. Soc. XX. 86, from the Himalaya, is a small-flowered form with more deeply 
divided tube, otherwise the same as var. B. 
C. cosy, Raf. in Spr. N. Ent. I. 145, and DC. Prod. IX. 461, from the Wabash, is perhaps the same as 
C. glomerata 
| Hothoiege, Uva barbata or Ampelepogon, is the name given to the numerous capillary stems of a Cuscuta which 
occasionally have been found parasitic on the unripe berries of the grape vine; they often seem to be without flowers ; 
in one instance they have been ascertained to belong to C. Epithymum. 
C. subuniflora, Koch, in Linnea XXII. 748, from Asia Minor, I have not seen; it may be a depauperate form 
of C. brevistyla. 
C. triflora, E. Mey. in Pl. Drege, from the Cape of Good Hope, is, as well as C. funiformis, Willd., a species of 
ta, 
VI. COLLECTED DESCRIPTIONS OF CUSCUTA. 
[Ir has been thought best not to reproduce the accounts of this genus contributed by 
Dr. Engelmann to Gray’s Manual, ed. 5; Botany of California, I.; Botany of Wheeler’s Expe- 
dition, 1878; and Gray’s Synoptical Flora of North America, II. part 1,— as they add little to his 
earlier papers. But descriptions of new species contained in them are included in the following 
pages. — Eps.] 
From ENGELMANN AND Gray's PLANT# LINDHEIMERIANE. (BosTON JOURN. Nar. Hist. Vou. V. 1845.) 
123. CuscuTa NEUROPETALA, Engelm. in Sill. Journ. XLV. p. 75, 8. mrnor. A smaller, age [223 (15)] 
flowering form, growing in drier places, mostly on Petalostemon multiflorum, but also on Liatris 
even on Euphorbia corollata. It approaches C. hispidula so much that not improbably further arate of living 
plants may prove both to be only varieties of a single species, for which the name of C. porphyrostigma would be most 
appropriate, as all the forms that would belong to it are distinguished from every other known North American species 
by the purplish-brown stigmas. Another remarkable variety is 
124. C. NEUROPETALA, Engelm. y. LITTORALIS : cymis paniculatis ; floribus majoribus pedunculatis ; ; tubo 
corolle late campanulato calycis segmenta late ovata acutiuscula subcarinata et lacinias limbi enervias ovatas abrupte 
acuminatas crenulatas patentes subsequante ; squamis tubum subequantibus. — Seashore of Galveston Island, on 
Lycium Carolinianum, Borrichia frutescens, Iva frutescens, ete. Flowers in May. Different from the inland form by 
the much larger, more openly campanulate flowers, expanding in spring; by the hardly carinate, broader, and not so 
