Cytinus. | CYTINACE® (Hill). 485 
Orper CXIV. CYTINACEZ., 
(By A. W. Hitt.) 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual. Perianth simple, 
sometimes fleshy ; tube adnate to the ovary and often produced 
above it, solid in the male flowers ; lobes 3-10, imbricate or valvate, 
1-2-seriate. Stamens 8 to many, free or united ; anthers surround- 
ing a central column and dehiscing by apical slits, or forming a 
lobed ring inside the perianth-tube with long sinuous cells like 
those of some Cucurbitacex, dehiscing longitudinally but folded so 
that the slits are near together and across the ring. Ovary inferior, 
l-celled ; placentas parietal or numerous and pendulous from the 
top of the cell, entirely covered with ovules; stigma sessile, flat 
or cushion-like, lobed. Fruit a berry, globose or turbinate, Seeds 
minute, albuminous ; embryo small. 
Fleshy root or branch parasites, leafless or with the leaves reduced to scales, 
Distris. Species about 40, in the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
I. Cytinus.— Flowers unisexual. Scale-leaves present. 
II. Hydnora,— Flowers hermaphrodite. Scale-leaves absent. 
I, CYTINUS, Linn. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious, bracteate and often 2-bracteolate. 
Male flowers: Perianth tubular-campanulate or infundibuliform ; 
lobes 4-9. Anthers connate in an exserted head, 2-celled, extrorse. 
Ovary rudiment none. Female flowers: Perianth almost absent ; 
style columnar; stigma globose, grooved, apex obtuse or very 
shortly lobed radially ; ovary with 8-14 scarcely exserted parietal 
placentie. 
Herbs coloured. somewhat fleshy, parasitic on roots ; stems short, thick, simple, 
bearing alternate coloured scales ; flowers arranged in a simple terminal spike, 
single, sessile or shortly pedicellate in axil of bract, with 2 opposite bracteoles or 
ebracteolate., 
Distrip. Species 4, Mediterranean region, South Africa, Mexico. 
1, C. dioicus (Juss. in Ann. Mus. Par. xii. (1808), 443) ; stems 
4—6 in. high ; erect, fleshy, simple or branched, 1—3-flowered ; scales 
lax, imbricate, oblong, denticulate; flowers 2 in. long, shortly 
pedicellate ; bracts oblong, obtuse ; bracteoles oblong-spathulate, 
concave ; male flowers: perianth infundibuliform, with 6 grooves, 
papillose towards the base; septa 6, alternating with perianth- 
lobes, extending to the staminal column ; lobes elongate-oblong, 
obtuse, suberect, papillose outside, margins membranous, more or 
