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Plate 16]<br />
CUSOUTA 73<br />
Cuscuta europaea, Linn. Greater Dodder, Beggarweed,<br />
Devil's Guts, Hairweed, Strangle Tare.<br />
Stems pale yellow or pink. Flowers waxy white, often<br />
tinged with pink, stalkless in many small globose heads.<br />
Calyx-tube hardly rV in. long, cylindric, becoming globose in<br />
fruit, lobes 5-4, egg-shaped-triangular, erect. Corolla xV in.<br />
long, egg-shaped, lobes 5-4, egg-shaped or triangular, scales<br />
near the base of the filaments, blunt or notched. Anthers<br />
yellow. Styles 2, distinct, shorter than the linear, purple<br />
stigmas. Capsule tV in. long, fragile. Seeds usually 4,<br />
brown, ellipsoid.<br />
Flowers. May, June.<br />
Locality. Gagribal ;<br />
near Shirazia Bagh.<br />
Distribution. Temperate Himalaya, 5,000-12,000 ft., from<br />
Kashmir to Sikkim, Central and W. Asia, Europe.<br />
Cuscuta planiflora,<br />
Tenore.<br />
Resembling the preceding species. Flowers in stalkless,<br />
globose heads. Calyx and corolla often glistening on account<br />
of their large, lax tissue. Sepals egg-shaped-oblong. Corollatube<br />
longer than the calyx ;<br />
scales in the tube fringed. Styles 2,<br />
shorter than the linear stigmas.<br />
Locality. At elevations up to 6,000 ft.<br />
Distribution. Kashmir, Punjab, Central Asia, Mediterranean.<br />
Cuscuta chinensis, Lam. Chinese Dodder.<br />
Stems filiform, twining, much-branched, often forming a<br />
tangled mass. Flowers solitary or in short-stalked cymes ;<br />
flower-stalks short. Bracts egg-shaped, -&$ in. long. Calyx<br />
T\y in. long, cleft rather less than half-way down, lobes triangularegg-shaped,<br />
often with a tubercular keel on the back. Corolla<br />
iV in. long ;<br />
lobes about as long as the tube, egg-shaped-oblong ;<br />
scales at the base of the filaments fringed. Styles 2, distinct.<br />
Capsules hardly xV in. diameter, globose, divided into 2 lobes<br />
by a deep furrow on top. Seeds usually 4.<br />
Locality. At altitudes up to 7,000 ft.<br />
Distribution. Kashmir to Chamba, throughout the greater<br />
part of India, Ceylon, Persia, eastwards to Australia.<br />
Cuscuta reflexa,<br />
Eoxb.<br />
(Eeflexa means bent back, alluding to the lobes of the corolla.)<br />
Stems long, branching, closely twining, hairless ; branches<br />
stout, fleshy, forming dense, yellow masses on low trees and<br />
shrubs. Flowers solitary or in clusters or forming short
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