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obsolete ; stipules 0. Flowers in cymes, rarely solitary, regular, 
hermaphrodite ; bracts at cyme-bases or under solitary flowers oppo- 
site ; bracteoles at base of pedicels small, scale-like. Sepals 5, 
imbricate, occasionally slightly connate below, often persistent, some- 
times accrescent. Corolla campanulate or infundibuliform, rarely 
sub-rotate ; limb with 5 short or long lobes often plicate in bud, after 
flowering either involute or reverting to the original aestivation. 
Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube ; anthers oblong, opening by longitu- 
dinal introrse or lateral slits. Carpels usually 2, very rarely 3 or more ; 
connate throughout in a superior ovary with its base often encircled 
by an annular or lobed disk, and its cells as many or, by development 
of accessory partitions, twice as many as the component carpels, rarely, 
from absorption of dissepiments, fewer than carpels ; ovules 2 in each 
carpel, sessile erect anatropous ; style solitary or rarely styles 2 ; 
stigma capitate or 2-lobed or 2-fid. Fruit an indehiscent often dry 
berry, or a 2-4-valved or circumscissile or irregularly opening capsule. 
Seeds 4 to 2, rarely solitary, erect ; albumen scanty or 0 ; cotyledons 
generally plicate, rarely flat. — Distkib. Species about 1,000, in all 
regions, but more abundant in sub-tropical and tropical countries. 
Corolla-tube usually uniformly enlarged from base to apex, the 
5 bands or lobes rarely, except in Eryeibe, clearly defined from 
the intervening spaces ; pollen not spinulose : — 
Yellow parasitic twining leafless herbs . . 
Green non-parasitie leafy herbs, shrubs or trees : — 
Fruit indehiscent, woody or fleshy, rather large ; style short 
or 0 ; stigma 5-10-rayed ; corolla-lobes 2-fid, the lobules 
induplicate, contorted ; woody, climbing shrubs or erect trees 
Fruit dehiscent, or if indehiscent small, with thin fragile 
walls : — 
Flowers in racemes or panicles — 
Bracts not enlarged in fruit ; outer 3 or all of the sepals 
enlarged in fruit ; style entire or shortly 2-lobed ; capsule 
indehicent or rarely 2-valved 
Bracts in fruit much enlarged, scarious, adnate to calyx ; 
sepals not enlarged ; capsule 4-valved, 1-seeded 
Flowers in cymes or solitary ; capsule valvate or opercular, 
rarely dehiscing irregularly : — 
Styles 2, free or partially united below ; sepals not or 
slightly enlarging in fruit : — 
Capsule 4-valved, 2-1-locular, 4-2-seeded ; styles quite 
free, each 2-branched ; cymes few-flowered 
Capsule irregularly dehiscent, splitting into numerous 
vertical segments; styles usually partially united below, 
stigmas capitate ; cymes sub-capitate 
Style entire, stigmas usually 2 : — 
Ovary 1-locular; capsule 4-valved, 4-seeded ; stigmas 
shortly oblong ; calyx-lobes not enlarged in fruit : 
1. Cuscuta. 
2. Ebycibe. 
3. Bolt ANA. 
4. Neuboeeltis. 
5. Evolvclus. 
6. Bonamia. 
