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COLLECTED DESCRIPTION'S OE CUSCUTA. 
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305; DC. Prod. IX. 455. 0. megalantha, Steud. Nom. C. elatior, CHoisy! Cusc. 177. — Flowers of the largest size; 
lacinise | or sometimes only £ the length of the tube; anthers elongated, on very short filaments separating from the 
tube below the throat; stigmas elongate, subulate, divaricate, usually on a very short style. This is no 
doubt Roxburgh's original G. reflexa, as his figure and description, “stigmata large, spreading, pointed,” [519 (69)] 
prove. — In the temperate as well as the tropical parts of India, from the Himalaya, Wallich ! 1318 & 
1319 2 ; Lady Dalhousie! Jacquemont! 1109 & 2183; Strachney & Winterbottom! 1 &2; Hofmeister! Hooker, f. & 
Thomson ! Sikkim, the same ! Khasia, the same! to the low lands of the coast of Coromandel, Roxburgh, and to Ceylon, 
Gardner! 616; Thomson! and Java, Zollinger! 2839. — The specimens from the islands are remarkably stout, and 
have a larger calyx than the ordinary form. It often occurs with verrucose bracts, pedicels, .and calyx or even verrucose 
stems; this is G. verrucosa, Sweet, FI. Gard. tie, not Engelm.; G. Hookeri, Sweet, Hort. Br. p. 290; C. reflexa, var 
verrucosa, Hook.! FI. Exot. t. 150. 
Var. 0. brachystigma. G. reflexa , Wallich! Cat. in part; Edgeworth! in Linn. Trans.; Choisy, DC. Prod. 1. c.; 
and most authors, not Roxb. G.pentandra , Heyne! in Hb. H. B. Petrop. — Flowers smaller; lacinise % or i the length 
of the tube; anthers shorter, sessile at the throat of the corolla; stigmas short, conic, closely sessile, erect. —Calcutta, 
Gaudichaud! 129, and valley of the Ganges in general, Jacquemont! 149 & 2520, de Silva! in Wall. Cat. 1319 \ to the 
Punjab and the western Himalaya, Hooker, f. & Thomson! 
Jacquemont’s 149, from Bengal, has the corolla and anthers of var. a., and the short erect stigmas of var. 0.; style 
distinct, almost as long as the stigmas. 
C. anguina , Edgeworth! T*ans. Linn. Soc. XX. 86, from the Himalaya, is a small-flowered form with more deeply 
divided tube, otherwise the same as var. 0. 
C. aphylla, Raf. in Spr. N. Ent. I. 145, and DC. Prod. IX. 461, from the Wabash, is perhaps the same as 
G. glomerata. 
, a Epibotrys, Uva barbata or Ampelepogon, is the name given to the numerous capillary stems of a Cuscuta which 
occasionally have been found parasitic on the unripe berries of the grape vine; they often seem to be without flowers; 
in one instance they have been ascertained to belong to C. Epithymum. 
C. subuniflora , Koch, in Linnsea XXII. 748, from Asia Minor, I have not seen; it may be a depauperate form 
of C. brevistyla. 
G. triflora, E. Mey. in PI. Drege, from the Cape of Good Hope, is, as well as C. funiformis , Willd., a species of 
Cassyta. 
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