OF THE GENUS CUSCUTA. 
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brevioribus conniventibus, antberis oblongo-linearibus filamento crasso longioribus ; squamis angustis apice fimbriato 
bifidis faucem sequantibus ; stylis ovario subgloboso fere longioribus exsertis. — C. australis , Hook. fil.! FI. Tasm. 278, 
not R. Br. 
Hobartstown, Tasmania, Gunn! 1991, in Hb. Hooker.—Well characterized and distinguished from any other 
species by the shape of the stigma. Fascicles of 4-8 flowers aggregated in larger cymes ; flowers l£-lf lines long, 
usually 5-parted; anthers turned inward, with a very broad commissure on the back; scales crenulate on the sides, 
deeply fringed and usually bilobed at the tip ; styles nearly as long as lobes of corolla, much longer than the stamens ; 
stigma commonly with four unequal lobes ; styles in fruit subulate from a broad divaricate base, distant, with a small 
aperture between them ; no ripe seeds seen. 
Sect. 8. MONOGYNELLA. 
Styles united entirely or for the greater part of their length, thick and compressed ; stigmata capitate, subglobose 
or ovate, distinct or more or less coalescent. Capsule regularly circumscissile, usually 2-seeded; dissepiment of the 
shape of the capsule, transparent, with a thicker rim, entire, no part adhering to the base of the style. Seeds com¬ 
pressed, oblique, more or less rostrate, with a long linear transverse hilum. Anthers sessile, or on very short filaments, 
often attached to the tube below the throat. 
Stems thick ; flowers comparatively small, always 5-parted, sessile or on short pedicels, supported by 
bracts, in small cymules, which form a compound spike or raceme ; withered corolla remaining, hoodlike, [513 (63)] 
on the very top of the large capsule. 
Parasitic mostly on ligneous plants. Of the eight species of this section, five belong to the continent of Asia, two 
ich extend into Europe ; one is peculiar to the island of Timor, one to South Africa, and one to Texas. 
K . 68, C. exaltata, n. sp.: caule funiculari; floribus breviter pedicellatis seu sessilibus spicato-paniculatis; 
calycis globosi lobis fere disjunctis orbiculatis concavis imbricatis medio verrucosis corollse tubum cylindricum 
sequantibus ; laeiniis orbiculatis imbricatis tubo multo brevioribus erectis seu erecto-patulis ; antheris cordato- 
orbiculatis ad faucem sessilibus ; squamis bipartitis dentatis tubo multo brevioribus ; stylo apice bifido ovario ovato- 
globoso sequilongo, stigmatibus subglobosis. 
Parasitic on Diospyros Mexicana, Ulmus crassifolia , Quercue virens t Juglans, Bhus, etc., 10-20 feet high, in western 
Texas, on the Guadaloupe and Cibolo, Lindheimer! 472 ; on the Colorado and Blanco, Wright! on the Leona and at 
the mouth of the Pecos, Bigelow ! on the Bio Grande, Schott! — Stems 1-2 lines in diameter; compound panicles 
several inches in length; flowers 2 lines long, small tube hidden in the large calyx; anthers closely sessile; scales 
reduced to two dentate wings on the sides of the very distinct attached filaments, united at base; upper fourth of the 
thick style divided ; stigmas depressed, thicker than the ends of the style ; capsule 3J-5 lines long; seeds lj-lf lines 
long, somewhat triangular, very slightly rostrate. The large embryo is coiled up in 2-3 rounds; on the upper (thinner) 
end 3-4 alternate scales may be distinguished. This is the only species of this section where the styles are not 
completely united. I formerly distributed it under the name of 0. gamostyla. 
69. C. cassytoides, Nees ab Esenb.! in Linnsea, XX. p. 196, sine descr.: caule funiculari; floribus sub- 
sessilibus cymoso-spicatis; calycis globosi lobis orbiculatis concavis imbricatis verrucosis corollse tubum latum breviter 
cylindricum includentibus ; laeiniis ovatis obtusis vix basi imbricatis erectis tubum sequantibus; antheris cordato- 
ovatis ad faucem sessilibus; squamis tenuissimis apice truncato pauci-dentatis tubo brevioribus; stylo ovario ovato- 
conico sequilongis, stigmate capitato bilobo ; capsula ovata; seminibus ovato-triangulatis tenuiter verruculosis. 
Cape of Good Hope; primitive forests of Uitehage, Drege, 8037; Hangklipp, Mund & Maire; 
Zeyher II. 3631 (120.5). — Flowers in spiked] cymules, 1} lines long, shorter than in the last species ; [514 (64)] 
scales united at base, ovate obtuse or truncate, scarcely dentate ; styles united entirely ; stigma divided 
almost to the base,- lobes subglobose; capsule 3-4 lines long, subglobose; seeds of the same size and shape as in 
1 t species. 
.\/ VO. C. Timorensis, Decaisne! mss.: caule funiculari; floribus racemoso-spicatis seu axi indeterminata apice 
bracteata spicatis; pedicellis inferioribus longioribus bracteatis, superioribus brevissimis nudis, omnibus bractea ovato- 
orbiculata concava suffultis ; calycis profunde partiti lobis orbiculatis concavis imbricatis tubum corolke brevem 
campanulatum sequantibus ; laeiniis ovatis obtusis tubo brevioribus erectis seu ssepe patulis reflexisve ; antheris 
cordato-ovatis tubo infra faucem adnatis ; squamis ad cristulas binas convergentes reductis seu subnullis; stylo cum 
stigmatibus ovatis compressis ovarium subglobosum sequante; capsula ovata conica sub-2-sperma; seminibus orbiculato- 
triangulatis compressis. — C. reflexa, Dne.! in Hb. Timor, descr. p. 66, not Roxb. 
Island of Timor, Leschenault! in Hb. Mus. Par. — The tendency to a regularly spiked inflorescence, which is 
observed in this whole group, is more decidedly developed in this species. The main axis of the inflorescence is termi¬ 
nated by an imbricately bracted bud, never by a flower. The lower lateral flowers open first, and the upper ones in 
succession; all, or only the lower ones, are supported by pedicels bearing lateral flowers ; the upper ones often have 
