226 CI. coKTOLvuLACiai. (C. B. Clarke.) IGuscuta. 



corolla campanulate deciduous, scales remote from the filaments, style very 

 short, stigmas lanceolate, capsule j-^- in. fleshy circimisciss near the base 4- 

 seeded. Wall. Cci. 1319; Hook. Exot. Fl.t.\m; Chois. Convolv. Or. 116, 

 and in 2>C. Prodr. ix. 454; Engdm. Case. 68. C. grandiflora. Wall. Cat. VMS. 

 Chois. Convolv. Or. 116. 0. verrucosa, Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. i. 6. C. Hookeri, 

 Sweet Um-t. Brit. ed. 2, 373. 0. macrantha, G. Bon Gen. Syst. iv. 305 ; 

 C^ois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 456. O. elatior, ChmB. Convolv. Or. 177. 



Throughout India, alt. 0-8000 it., common ; Bengal Plain, abundant. Cetlon ; 

 Newera EUia, Gardener. — ^Disteib. Malaya. 



Branches stout, fleshy, forming dense yellow masses on low trees and shrubs. 

 Flowers 5-merous, in lax racemes 1—4 in. long, also clastered or subspicate ; pedicels 

 0-j in., often verrucose; bracts A in. Sepah i in., nearly distinct, ovate, ob- 

 tuse. Corolla y-J by ^ in., subcylindric ; lobes short-triangular, reflexed; scales 

 prominent, emarginate, fimbriate. Stigmas wide apart. Capsule (unripe) acute 

 (corolla early deciduous), ultimately subqnadrate obtuse tough fleshy. Seeds large, 

 black. 



Vab. avguina, corolla about half the usual size. C. anguina, Edgew. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. 87. — ^W. Himalaya ; Edgeworth. The corolla varies a good deal in 

 size from WaUich's C. grandiflora down to C. anguina, Edgw. ; the chain of inter- 

 mediates is nearly complete. 



2. C. g'lg'antea, Griff. Notid. i. 243 ; spikes short subracemose, coroUa 

 cylindric deciduous, scales near its base remote from the filaments, style short, 

 stigmas Ungulate, capsule ^— | in. membranous circumsciss near the base 2- 

 seeded. Engelm. Ouscui. 66 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 122. 



Westben Tibet ; Falconer. — Disteib. Cabul. 



Much slenderer than C. reflara. Flowers irregularly fascicled or shortly pedicelled, 

 not capitate ; bracts ^ in., ovate. Sepals ^ in., ovate, obtuse. Corolla J-i in., tube 

 subcylindric ; lobes .5, subacute, erect or reflexed ; scales elliptic, shortly fimbriate. 

 PistU nearly as of O. reflexa but smaller. Capsule ultimately subquadrate, obtuse. 

 Seeds broadly rhombiform, black. — ^Founded on n. 683 of Griff. Serb. Propr. from 

 Cabul ; but the Kew Distrib. n. 5899, which also bears Griffith's ticket n. 683, is a 

 Eucuscuta with subglobose corolla and two styles, &c. 



Sttbgeutts 2. Eucuscuta. Ovary and young fruit obtuse. Styles 2, 

 their bases approximate but separated by a narrow depression which in the 

 fruit becomes a pit, 



* Styles elongate, stigmas capitate. 



3. C. Iiyalina, Both Nov. Sp. 100, not of Wight; cymes or racemes 

 dense, calyx acutely lobed f down, corolla-lobes lanceolate acuminate, scales 0. 

 Engelm. Ouscut. 40 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 121. C. sulcata, WaU. Cat. 1320 (as 

 to Heyne's examples marked C. hyalincC). C. arabica, Wight Ic. 1371, not of 

 Presm. C. oxypetala, £oiss. Biagn. 2. iii. 130. 0. Boissieii, Stocks in Sook 

 Kew Jorum, iv. 173. 



Scdtde; Stocks. Deccah Peninsula., Bottler; Palameottah, Wight. — Distbib. 

 Beloochistan ; Abyssinia. 



Pedicels 0-i in. ; bracts i in., ovate. Calyx I in. Corolla-tuhe i-i in.; lobes 

 5, 1 in., acuminate and even caudate. Capsule ^ in., fragile, irregularly breaMng up 

 from the base, normally 4-seeded. — A strongly marked plant, certainly C. hyalina of 

 Bottler, Engelmann and Boissier ; but the description of Roth, copied by C'hoisy (in 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 460), is greatly at variance with the characters of the plant. 



4. C. diinensis, Lamk. Enc. ii. 229 ; cymes or racemes dense, sepals 

 triangular-ovate subobtuse, coroUar-lobes ovate obtuse or shortly acute, scales 

 shortly fimbriate. Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 457 ; Wight. Ic. t. 1373 ; Engdm. 



