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CUSCUTA Rer.exa, var. verrucosa. 
Warted East Indian Dodder. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.—Nar. Onv. CONVOLVULACEA. 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyx 5- raro 4-fidus. Corolla globoso-urceolata (vel campa- 
nulata) limbo 5-fido (plerumque) marcescens. Ovarium 2-loculare, lo- 
culis dispermis. Capsula bilocularis, circumscissa. 
Cuscuta reflexa; digyna, stigmatibus subsessilibus divergentibus subula- 
tis, corolla campanulata 5-dentata, laciniis reflexis, squamis fimbriatis. 
Cuscuta reflexa, “ Roxs. Corom. Pl. v. ii. No. 104.”—Fl. Ind. v. i. p. 466. 
8, verrucosa, pedunculis calycibusque verrucosis. 
Cuscuta verrucosa, “ Sweet's Brit. Fl. Gard.” t. 6. 
Stem of great length, filiform, branched, leafless, succulent, climbing from 
left to right, shining, glabrous, greenish-white, spotted and dashed with 
purple, adhering parasitically by means of small, fleshy, discoid radicles. 
From various parts of the stems and branches proceed clusters, or com- 
pact panicles, formed of a more or less considerable number of large, 
pure white, waxy, and slightly pellucid, fragrant flowers, the smell of 
which somewhat resembles that of the primrose, 
Peduncles and pedicels sprinkled with many elevated, shining dots or warts, 
of a deep purple colour. Bracteas 2 or 3 on the pedicels, or at the base 
of the calyx, small, ovate. Calyx of 5 fleshy, white or pale rose coloured, 
ovate, obtuse, appressed, warted segments, quite inferior, and not at all 
adhering to the germen, persistent. Corolla deciduous, campanulate, or 
very slightly contracted at the mouth, 5-toothed, the teeth reflexed, at the 
base of which, on the inside, are 5 short, fringed scales. Anthers 5, ses- 
sile, placed just within the corolla, and alternating with its segments, 
oblong, yellow: beneath them is an elevated line, running down to the 
back of each scale. Germen rotundato-ovate, tipped with the two, near- 
ly sessile, subulate, white stigmas. Young capsules 2-celled, each cell 
2-seeded. Fully formed capsules the size of large peas, terminated with 
the style and stigmas, spherical, membranaceous, opening all round 
transversely near the base, imperfectly 2-celled ; the dissepiment mem-~ 
branaceous, free: each cell 2-seeded ; one or sometimes both in a cell not 
unfrequently abortive. Seeds attached to the base of the cells, erect, 
rotundate compressed. Albumen copious, between fleshy and corneous. 
Embryo filiform, long, spirally rolled up, and immersed in the albumen. 
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