500 LAURINES (Stapf.) [ Ocotea. 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div. ; Grootvaders Bosch, Zeyher, 3629! Knysna 
Div. ; Bosch River, Drége ; in the forest at Knysna, Burchell, 5409 | 5432! forest 
near Yzer Nek, Burchell, 5236! Humansdorp Div.; by the Kromme River, 
Drége! 
This is the ‘‘ Stinkwood,”’ one of the most valuable timber trees of Cape Colony. 
According to Sim, l.c. 290, this tree ranges ‘‘ from Cape Town to the Transvaal 
eastern forests,” and is at its best in the Knysna and Natal forests. He also 
mentions it from the Transkeian Mountains and Pondoland. Apart from the 
specimens enumerated above, all of which are typical Ocotea bullata, there are 
two sheets of Gerrard's at Kew which are possibly referable to Ocotea, The 
specimens consist of barren shoots and seem to represent a species distinct from 
O. bullata, The leaves are broad-elliptic, very obtuse, with only 4 lateral nerves 
on each side, and they, like the branchlets, are much more pubescent than 
those of G. bullata. There is also no trace of acarodomitia so commonly 
found in the latter species, Under the circumstances it is not improbable that 
the ‘‘Stinkwood” of Natal is a species as yet undescribed. 
III. CASSYTHA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, sometimes dimorphic (diccious?). Perianth 
with a turbinate or ovoid receptacle (very small during flowering) and 
a 6-partite limb, after flowering tightly constricted at the junction 
of limb and tube; segments unequal, outer 3 much smaller. 
Stamens in 4 whorls of 3, of the 3 outer fertile, of the fourth 
staminodial, rarely also those of the second whorl reduced to 
staminodes ; anthers 2-celled, of the 2 outer whorls introrse, of the 
third extrorse ; filaments of the third whorl with subsessile glands 
at each side of the base ; staminodes subsessile or stipitate. Ovary 
during flowering hardly immersed in the receptacle, which after- 
wards grows out and envelops it. Fruit completely enclosed in the 
succulent receptacle, often crowned by the persistent limb. Seed 
with a coriaceous testa. Cotyledons tightly adpressed to each other, 
distinct only when young. 
Twining, parasitic herbs, destitute of chlorophyll, adhering to their hosts by 
means of uniseriate haustoria ; leaves reduced to minute scales ; flowers small, 
racemose, spicate or capitate, segsile or pedicelled from the axils of scale-like 
bracts, supported by a pair of bracteoles. 
Disrris. Species about 16, mostly Australian. 
Inflorescences loosely spicate, 1-2 in. long “as ee a) ee 
Inflorescences capitate, subsessile or peduncled ; peduncles 
rarely over 4 lin. long: 
Whole plant glabrous excepting the sometimes very ~~ 
minutely hispidulous growing tips and inflo- 
rescences and the sometimes ciliolate bracts and 
outer perianth-segments ...  ... «+++ _ (2) ciliolata. 
Whole plant hairy, inflorescences and growing tips Oe 
rusty tomentose ... 4... ae ses (3) pondcensis, 
1. C. filiformis (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 35); stems filiform, bright 
yellow, glabrous or more or less pubescent to tomentose ; leaf-scales 
ovate to lanceolate-subulate, acute; inflorescences loosely spicate, 
usually solitary, spreading, 1-2 in. long, few- to 10-flowered ; flowers 
hermaphrodite, white, up to about 1 lin. long ; bracteoles ciliolate ; 
