Giant dodder or ulan ulan, Cuscuta reflexa. Native to India and the Himalayas, found in Madras, Mysore and Coromandel coast by Anglo-Indian apothecary Dr. John Shortt. Warted East Indian dodder, Cuscuta reflexa var. verrucosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by Robert Kaye Greville from William Jackson Hooker's Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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