494 LAURINE® (Stapf). [Cryptocarya. 
and third whorl), very rarely the glands fused with the receptacle 
into a disk, or also the outer stamens with glands at the base ; 
anthers continuous with the filaments, 2- or 4-valved, valves 
superposed or more or less collateral, dehiscing from the base 
upwards, introrse, or those of the third whorl more often extrorse. 
Ovary superior, often more or less surrounded by the recep- 
tacle or ultimately quite enclosed in it, very rarely inferior, 
l-celled ; style terminal, short or long, simple ; stigma small, obtuse 
or unilaterally widened or discoid. Ovule solitary, anatropous, 
pendulous from near, the apex of the ovary. Fruit baceate, fleshy 
or more or less drupaceous, indehiscent, more or less surrounded 
by or entirely free or enclosed in the persistent and accrescent 
perianth or its receptacular portion, often borne on an enlarged 
pedicel. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous ; testa membranous, often 
adnate to the pericarp and indistinct in the mature state. Embryo 
straight ; cotyledons thick, fleshy, sometimes very tightly adpressed 
to each other and not separable; radicle superior; plumule 
distinct. 
Trees or shrubs, very rarely (Cassytha) twining parasitic herbs, all parts with 
aromatic oil glands ; leaves alternate, rarely opposite or subopposite, coriaceous 
and evergreen, rarely membranous and annual, penniveined or 3-5-nerved, usually 
with a distinct network of veins, very rarely (Cassytha) reduced to small scales ; 
stipules 0 ; leaf-buds often scaly ; flowers small, greenish or yellowish in axillary 
or subterminal, rarely terminal, cymose or racemose inflorescences, rarely solitary ; 
bracts caducous or subpersistent, sometimes forming involucres below the partial 
inflorescences ; bracteoles 0, except in Cassytha. 
ieee Species about 1000, in the tropics and subtropical regions ; few in 
ca, 
I. Cryptocarya.—Anthers 2-valved. Fruit completely enclosed in the per- 
sistent and accrescent receptacle. Trees or shrubs. 
II. Ocotea.——Anthers 4-valved ; valves superposed. Fruit baccate, seated on 
or in the enlarged cupular receptacle. Trees (the South African 
species a tall tree) or shrubs. 
IIL. Cassytha.—Twining parasitic herbs destitute of chlorophyll, with the 
leaves reduced to small scales. 
I. CRYPTOCARYA, R. Br. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth herbaceous ; receptacle ovoid 
to turbinate or subcylindric, after flowering constricted above, per- 
sistent ; lobes 6, in 2 whorls, subequal, deciduous. Stamens 1D 
4 whorls, the outer 2 whorls fertile and inserted at the base of the 
perianth-lobes, the third fertile, and like the fourth, which is 
staminodial, inserted in the upper part of the receptacle ; anthers 
2-valved, of the two outer whorls introrse, of the third extrorse ; 
filaments short, those of the third whorl with a pair of sessile or 
stipitate glands at the base or in front of it ; staminodes ovoid and 
shortly stipitate or attenuated at the base.’ Ovary sessile, enclosed 
in the receptacle ; style shortly exserted. Fruit globose or oblong, 
enclosed in the enlarged indurated or somewhat fleshy receptacle, 
