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slightly or not at all overlapping; corolla shallow, campanulate ; lobes 
upright to spreading, about equaling or longer than the tube, ovate, obtuse, 
slightly overlapping at the base; stamens shorter than the lobes, subulate 
filaments longer than the oval anthers; scales reaching the stamens, broadly 
spatulate, sometimes more or less truncated, fringed with short processes 
about the upper part, bridged below the middle; ovary globose-conic; 
styles apparently lacking; stigmas sessile, more or less peltate and frilled. 
Capsule globose or slightly conic, circumscissile, the withered corolla about 
it and towards the base; seed about 1.5 mm. long, ovate, hilum linear and 
at the end. 
The fragment of the type examined was so small and under-developed 
that it was impossible to distinguish clearly all the characters. Engelmann 
states with his original description that ''the only specimen seen is very 
young with only a few flowers open, and a single half-grown capsule," 
which may account for the fact that he considered the capsule not circum- 
scissile. The specimen collected by Fries, however, was well developed 
and abundant and seems to be this species. It showed definite character- 
istics, as described, including a definitely circumscissile capsule. My 
description, therefore, is drawn mainly from Fries' collection and assumes 
that this is probably the same species as Reynolds' collection. 
Type locality: Chile, on the volcano of Antuco. Distribution: Central 
Chile and northern Argentina. 
Specimens examined: Argentina: Prov. Jujuy, Nevado de Chani (Fries go6). 
Chile: Volcano Antuco (Reynolds p5, the type, in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew). 
6. Cuscuta chilensis Ker-Gawler 
(PI. II, fig. 10, A-E) 
Cuscuta chilensis Ker-Gawler, Bot. Reg. 7, PI. 603. 1821. — Choisy, Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist 
Nat. Geneve 9: 275. 1841; and in De Candolle, Prodromus 9: 455. 1845. — Gay, 
Hist, de Chile 4: 446. 1849. — Engelmann, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis i: 478. 1859. 
— Reiche, Fl. Chile 5: 168. 1910. Not Bert. mss. ex Choisy, nor Hort. Frib. ex 
Engelmann. 
Cuscuta odorata Poeppig ex Choisy in De Candolle, Prodromus 9: 455. 1845. 
Cuscuta aurea Philippi, Ann. Univ. Chile 90: 224. 1895. 
Stems medium. Flowers 5-7 mm. long, smooth or infrequently slightly 
papillate, subsessile to sessile, in dense lateral clusters; calyx much shorter 
than the corolla tube, lobes ovate, infrequently unequal, obtuse, slightly 
overlapping; corolla cyHndrical, lobes triangular-ovate or infrequently 
oblong-ovate, obtuse or rarely acutish, much shorter than the corolla tube; 
anthers linear-oblong, comparatively large, frequently purple, subsessile or 
sessile; scales shorter than the tube, bridged at about the middle, profusely 
fringed with medium-length processes; styles subulate, about equal to 
the globose-conic ovary; stigmas large and frequently more or less con- 
voluted and reddish. Capsule circumscissile, globose or depressed-globose 
or appearing conical because of the subulate styles, with the withered 
corolla about it; seeds two to four in each capsule, oval, 1.5-2 mm. long, 
hilum short. 
