202 xc. convolvulace/E (baker and rendle). [Argyreia. 



4. A. multiflora, Baker, not of Voigt. A shrubby climber. Leaves 

 distinctly petioled, large, cordate-ovate, acute, grey pubescent beneath 

 and with glands barely visible to the naked eye. Peduncles short, 

 axillary, many-flowered, glabrescent ; pedicels as long as the peduncle, 

 subclavate, barely 1 in. long. Sepals oblong-elliptic, obtuse, some- 

 times mucronate, grey pvibescent on the back, margin glabrous, 

 membranous. Corolla white, 2 in. long ; midpetaline areas lined with 

 5 prominent nerves, glandular punctate, and with a tuft of white hairs 

 at the end. — Stictocardia multiflora, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 

 160. Eivea tilicefolia, var. multiflora, Klotzsch ex Hallier f. I.e. 



IVXozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique ; Cabanira, Peters. 



Not seen. A specimen from Brava, Somali Coast, collected by Kirk may perhaps 

 be referable to this species. The le ives are multiglandular on the back, but 

 glabrous, or sparsely puberulous on the veins. The sepals are oblong, the outer 

 ones very broadly oblong, 7-7A lin. long. The corolla is nearly 2\ in. long. 



28. CUSCUTA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 881. 



Calyx usually campanulate ; sepals usually 5, imbricate, ovate, 

 generally more or less united at the base. Corolla campanulate ; lobes 

 usually 5, longer or shorter than the tube, imbricate; tube usually 

 appendiculate with 5 scales, placed beneath the lobes. Stamens inserted 

 in the sinuses between the corolla-lobes or below them ; filaments 

 filiform or flattened ; anthers globose or oblong. Ovary 4-ovuled, 

 perfectly or imperfectly 2-celled ; styles 2, free to the base or connate ; 

 stigmas capitate or linear. Capsule dry or fleshy, bursting irregularly or 

 dehiscence circumscissile. Seeds glabrous ; embiyo peripheric, filiform, 

 entire. — Leafless parasites, with twining stems and small usually 

 reddish-white flowers in clusters. 

 Species about 80. Cosmopolitan. 

 * Eucuscuta. — Styles free to the base or obsolete ; 

 stigmas narrow. 

 Styles developed. 



Corolla-lobes narrow, acute . . . 1. C. abyssinica. 



Corolla-lobes ovate, obtuse to acute . . . 2. C. planiflora. 



Styles obsolete . . . . . . 3. C. arabica. 



"'•'■'' Grammica. — Styles free to the base; stigmas capi- 

 tate. 

 Scales present on the corolla-tube. 

 Calyx 5-lobed to about the middle. 



Capsule splitting irregularly at tbe base . 4. C. chinensis. 



Capsule opening at the top . . . . 5. C obiusiflora. 



Calyx 5-partite nearly to the base . . 6. C. blepharolepis. 



Scales not present on the corolla-tube (small scales 

 sometimes present in C. Kilimanjari). 

 Corolla-lobes obtuse . . . . , 7. C. Kilimanjari. 



Corolla-lobes tapering, acute . . . 8. C. hyalina. 



Corolla-lobes acute . . . . . . 9. C. Kpitribulmn. 



*** Mo^ogyxa. — Styles connate. 



10. C. cassytoides. 



