OF THE GENUS CUSCUTA. 
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C. lupuliformis, having been published as early as 1787, has by four years the priority over Vahl’s name, G. mono - 
gyna, published in 1791, and must stand for the species with all those botanists who consider both plants as identical; 
but it so happens that G. lupuliformis properly designates the species which in Europe and Asia extends north of the 
or 44th degree, and G. monogyna that which grows south of that latitude. 
H 74. C. gig ante a, Griffith, Notul. I. 243. — On Tamarix, Siah-sung ravine, Afghanistan, 10,300 feet high, Grif¬ 
fith ! 1031 (683). — Griffith’s specimens corresponding best with his description are all parasitic on Tamarix, and not 
on Salix oi Populus, as he says in Jhis Notulse; nor are the sterna very thick, but rather filiform. Otherwise his 
detailed description — especially that of the corolla, the scales, and the stigmas — agrees so well with his 
specimen in question, that I cannot doubt about his having it in view but he may have .confounded it [517 (67)] 
with C. monogyna , which he has collected on willows. 
The inflorescence forms racemose spikes after the manner of this section, but shorter, only |—§ inch long, flowers 
2^-2 J lines long, membranaceous, on short pedicels; calyx covering one half of the tube ; lacinise linear-oblong, obtuse, 
crenulate, a little shorter than the tube, spreading, or reflexed; ovate-cordate anthers very large*, subsessile a little below 
the throat; scales oval, fimbriate, reaching from the base to the middle of the tube ; style as long as the conic ovary 
anc 11 oblong, elongated, somewhat ligulate (linguiformia, Griff.) stigmas. 
V 75. C. Japonic a, Choisy! PI. Zoll., 1854, p. 130 & PI. Jav. 1858, p. 30. — This species extends in several forms 
along the whole coast of China and to Japan; all the different varieties are characterized by a very short cupulate calyx, 
with rounded, mostly cristate lobes, which cover scarcely more than \ of the corolla; by the oval or rounded, very 
slightly crenulate, sometimes cuspidate, spreading or reflexed lacinise, which have £ or £ the length of the cylindrical 
or slightly widening tube ; by the oval anthers, sessile or subsessile at the throat; by the entire, ovate, fimbriate, in¬ 
curved scales ; by the elongated style, with 2 ovate, more or less conic or subulate, stigmas. Flowers 2^-3 lines long. 
Var. a. thyrsoidea : flowers subsessile with several bracts at base, in a compact, thyrsoid raceme, often 2 inches 
long and £ inch thick ; scales from the lower part of the tube, reaching almost to the base of the anthers ; styles longer 
than the conic ovary; stigmas short and conic. —This is Choky’s original G. Japonica, and also Q.. reflexa , var. densir 
flora, Bentham! in Hb.—Japan, Zollinger! 355; Hongkong, Abbe guret! Maj. Champion! 457. — G. systyla, Maxi- 
mowitsch! Primit. FI. Amur, ined., from the lower Amur,, is exactly the same plant, with shorter scales, and rather 
oval than conic stigmas. From G. lupuliformis , var. Asiatica , to which it closely approaches, it is distinguished by ihe~ 
short calyx and the shape and insertion of the stamens. 
Var. /3. paniculata : flowers on short pedicels, scarcely bracted at base, in a loosely flowered panicle, 1-2 inches 
long and of the same diameter; narrow scales reaching from the base to the middle of the tube ; stigmas conic-subulate, 
as long as style and as ovary. — C. colorans, Maxim.! 1. c. — Pekin, Kirilow! in Hb. Fischer, now Hb. H. B. Petrop. 
Yar. y. 1 fissistyla : inflorescence same as last; scales from the middle of the tube, not reaching the base of the 
anthers, broad and often partly confluent; styles united only at their lower third; stigmas conic. — Hongkong, Chas. 
Wright! U. S. North Pacif. Expl. Exp., nro. 486. 
The subulate or conic stigmas, and the often more paniculate than spiked inflorescence, indicate a [518 (68)] 
close approach to the next species, which to Mr. Bentbam was so evident, that he considered our plant a 
mere variety of it; but the structure of the capsule, with the corolla persisting on its top and the dissepiment in its 
base, shows that it truly belongs to Monogynella. The dissepiment is membranaceous, with a thicker centre, but 
without the thick frame-like border of the allied species. 
Sect. 9. CALLIANCHE. 
Stigmata distinct, elongated, conic or subulate, sessile or almost sessile. Capsule regulariy circumscissile, usually 
4-seeded, dissepiment extremely thin, partly evanescent, stylar portion small. Seeds compressed, rostrate, angled on 
the inside, with a long, linear, transverse hilum. 
Flowers large, 5-parted, usually on bracted pedicels in compound loosely paniculate cymules; corolla deciduous 
after flowering. The only species inhabits East-India and the adjoining islands. 
\/ 76. C. reflexa, Roxb. Corom. 104; FI. Ind. I. 446. — This beautiful species bears the largest flowers of any, in 
different varieties from 3-5 lines long; calyx with oval or mostly rounded, very often cristate or verrucose lobes, much 
shorter than the cylindric tube of the corolla; lacinise spreading or reflexed, on the margin revolute, much shorter than 
the tube; anthers oval to oblong-linear, sessile or subsessile; scales in the base of the tube, about J or J its length, with 
short and delicate curly fringes, curved; ovary oval, acutish, often attenuated into a short, slightly bifid style, or with 
sessile stigmas; capsule subglobose, about 4 lines in.diameter; at maturity, only the lowest part of the thin dissepiment 
remains; seeds 1£ lines long. ■— The following forms are specifically distinguished by most authors; Choisy, however, 
in PI. Zoll. already suspected their identity, and different as they seem to be at first sight, I can not but consider them 
as mere varieties. 
Yar. O. grandiflora. G. grandiflora , Wall.! Cat. nro. 1318, not HBK. G. macrantha, Don.! Gen. Syst. IV. 
