.Gusouta.] CI. coNVOLYULACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 227 



Cmcut. 29 ; JBoies. Fl. Orient, iv. 120. C. carinata, Br. Prodr. 491 ; Ohms. 

 Ic. 460. C. sulcata, JRoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 447; Wdl. Cat. 1320, type sheet. 

 C. capillaris, Wall. Cat. 1321 ; Chois. Convolv. Or. 117. C. hyalina, Wiffht 

 Ic. t. 1372, not of Roth. 0. ciliaris, Hohenach ; Boiss. Diagn. 2, iii; 129. 

 Grammica aphylla, Lour. Fl. Coohinch. 171. 



Kashmik and Chttmba ; alt. 5-7000 ft., Clar/ce. E. Bbngal ; Wallick. Deccan 

 Peninsula ; common. Ceylon ; at Colombo. — Distkib. Eastwards to Australia and 

 Westwards to Persia. 



Eesembling G. hyalina, but with much less elongate acute corollas-lobes. Sepals 

 nearly free, in large examples keeled (0. sulcata, Eoxb. or C. carinata, E. Br.) ; in 

 small examples flat. 



Var. minor, Chois. 3rd Mem. Convolv. t. 3, fig. 4 ; calyx and coroUa hardly half 

 so large as in the type. C. sulcata, Wall. Cat. 1320, n. 3. — Martaban; WaUick. — 

 Stems exceedingly slender. Eeferred in MS. by Engelmann to C. obtudflora, H.B.K. 

 Var. breviflora ; but the Martaban plant has the calyx divided to the base, and seems 

 merely a weak example of C. chinensis, as Wallich regarded it. Engelmann (Cuscut. 

 43) also refers as a Var. of C. obtusiflora, H. B. K., a plant collected in Kashmir by 

 Jacquemont n. 876, which is no doubt this. 



** Stigmas elongate or linear often as long as the styles. 



5. C. capitata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 448 ; flowers capitate, coroUa ovoid 

 covered with min ute, papillse without. Engelm. Cuscut. 23. 



Temperate W. Himalaya, alt. 6-12,000 ft., from Kashmir to Simla; Jaoquemont, 

 Thomson, &c. — Distbib. Cabul. 



A slender rose-coloured species. Sepals ^-^ i°-' ovate. CoroUa scarcely J in., 

 mouth contracted ; lobes 5, small, triangular, suberect ; scales small, low in the 

 corolla, slightly fimbriate. Siyks linear-lanceolate, as long as the short-linear stigmas. 

 Capsule i in., exceedingly thin and fragile, enclosed by the unchanged -corolla, 

 irregularly breaking up from the base. Seeds i, ellipsoid, brown. — An unmistakable 

 species ; and, as Engelmann noticed, agrees well -with Eoxburgh's figure and descrip- 

 tion : the puzzle is whence Eoxburgh got it ; he says it grew abundantly on Crota- 

 lariajmicea, a plant cultivated at or near the sear-level. 



6. C. europaea, lAnn. ; Syme Engl. Bot. t. 927 ; flowers i 

 globose heads, calyx-tube shortly ohconic lobes 5-4 ovate-triangular, styles 

 shorter than the linear stigmas, capsule circumsciss near the base along a 

 thickened rim. Engelm. Cuscut. 18, 19, with syn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 117. 

 C. major, C. Bauh. ; Chois. in. DC. Prodr. ix. 452. C. aggregata, B^xb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 447. 0. capiUaris, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 86. 



Tempbeatb Himalaya, alt. 5-12,000 ft., from Kashmir ta Sikkim; Thomson 

 Edgeworth, J. D. H., &c. — Disteib. Europe, Western and Central Asia. 

 I Calyx ^ in. CoroUa-tiibe ^ in., ovoid ; lobes 6-4, ovate or triangular ; scales 

 near the base of the filaments, obtuse or emarginate, crenulate or subentire. Capsule 

 5Jj in., fragile. Seeds usually 4, ellipsoid, brown. 



7. C. planiflora, Tenore; Engdm. Cuscut. 14 with syn.; flowers in 

 sessile globose heads, sepals ovate-oblong, coroUa-tube longer than the calyx, 

 styles shorter than the linear stigmas, capsule circumsciss near the base along a 

 tMckened rim. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 116. 0. minor, C. Bauh. ; Chois. in DC. 

 Prodr. ix. 453. C. brevistyla, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. 79 ; Engelm. Cuscut. 17 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 117. 



Sdbteopical W. Himalaya, alt. 1-6000 ft. ; frequent, descending to the Punjab 

 Plain. — Distrib. Mediterranean Eegion, Central Asia. 



Closely resembling C. ewopcea. Cah/x and corolla often glistening from their 

 large lax tissue ; whence the Indian examples have been regarded as papillose, and 

 placed wrongly with C. capitata. Corolla -tube usually .much longer than the calyx. 



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