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CUSCUTA chilensis. 
Chili Dodder. 
a 
TETRANDRIA (0. potiis PENTANDRIA) MONOGYNIA. \ 
Nat. ord. CoNvotvuui. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. LT. Genera Convyol- 
vulis affinia. ; 
CoNVOLVULACER. Brown prod. 1.481. Sect. ILI. Embryo 
acotyledoneus. aay. 
CUSCUTA. Cal. 5- rard 4-fidus. Cor. globoso-urceolata, limbo 
5-fido, marcescens. Germ. 2-loc., loculis dispermis. Caps. bilocularis, 
circumscissa. Herbe aphylle, volubiles, parasitice. Flores aggregati, 
subcapitati v. spicati, unibracteati. Squame 5, epipetale, infra filamenta, 
disdemque opposite, raro deficientes. Brown prod. 1. 491. 
Oss. E speciebus 10 examini subjectis novem constanter decimam spe 
floribus 5-fidis observavi: unica monogyna est, digynarum due tantim stig- 
matibus acutis, unica inedita absque squamis epipetalis que in C, europea et 
monogynéd certé extant. Brown 1. c. 
C. chilensis, pentandra, digyna, floribus 5-fidis; calyce ter breviore corolla, 
segmentis oblatis rotundatis; corolla intis infra medium fimbriato-squa- 
mata laciniis ovatis, tubo ter brevioribus, recurvis; antheris sessilibus ; 
stylo altero breviore; stigmatibus pileato-capitatis. 
Filum herbaceum ochroleucum aphyllum volubile radicans semperflorens. 
Flores paniculato-congesti ochroleuci odort pedunculis pedicellisque succulentis 
obesis brevissimis nitidis bracteatis: bractee squamacee, appresse, calycis 
concolores, obovate v. ovato-rotunde. Cal. corolla crassior triploque brevior, 
oblato-cupulatus, pedicelli continuus, persistens, 5-partitus segmentis rotun- 
datis, corolle applicitis. Cor. alba, apice sepiis erubescens, oblonga, ovato- 
cylindrica, marcescens, decidua, 5-fida laciniis tubo triplo v. quadruplo bre- 
vioribus recurvis ovatis equalibus ; ad basin 5-fissilis: squame 5 membra- 
nacee fornicato-conniventes, corolle concolores, infra antheras inserte, limbi 
laciniis alternantes, ovate, fimbriate lacinulis denticulato-micantibus. Anth. 
incluse, ore tubi sessiles, introrse, oblonga, biloculares, utroque latere de- 
hiscentes: pollen flavum, granulosum. Pist. corolla tubo subequale: germ. 
subglobosum, nitidum, superné violaceo-pallens, disco patelliformi auran- 
tiaco-splendente placentifero circumscisso-insidens, biloculare septo incom- 
pleto, loculamentis collaterali-dispermis: ovula imo angulo loculamentorum 
inserta, erecta, globosa, alba, opaca: styli 2, paralleli, contiqui, erecti, 
Jiliformi-subulati, obesiusculi, albidi, alter altero longior; stig. pileato- 
capitata, violaceo-fusea, subanguloso-rugata, d cavitate pilei infixa. 
It is not without hesitation that we separate this plant from 
Cuscwra odorata of the Flora Peruviana; yet if the descrip- 
tion and figure in that work are to be relied on at all, it would 
be hardly justifiable to unite the two. The calyx in the 
plant before us is much shorter in proportion to the corolla 
than in odorata, with broader shallower and rounder seg- 
VOL. VI. ; BB 
