Cassytha.] _ LAURINE (Stapf). 501 
outer perianth-segments very similar to the bracteoles, inner 
broadly ovate-oblong, obtuse, 3 times longer ; filaments of the first 
whorl broader than the anther, thinly membranous, of the second 
narrower than the anther; staminodes triangular, fleshy ; fruit 
crowned with the persistent limb, 2-3 lin. in diam. Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. i. 255; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 182; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 915; Engl. ea Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 
238; De Wild. in Etudes Fl. Bas et Moyen Congo, i. 244; Stapf in 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 188. C. guineensis, Meisn. l.e. (inel. var. 
_ Livingstonii). C. americana, Meisn. Lc. 256. Cassyta guineensis, 
Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 199; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 
497. C. americana, Nees, Syst. Laur. 644. 
Eastern Reeion : Pondoland ; between Umtentu River and Umzimkula River, 
Drége! Delagoa Bay: Lourengo Marques, Schlechter, 11547 ! 
Widely spread throughout the tropics. 
2. C. ciliolata (Nees, Syst. Laur. 646); stems filiform, yellow, 
glabrous or sometimes the growing tips rufous-hispidulous ; leaf- 
scales ovate, subacute, slightly produced downwards at the obtuse 
and often very minutely hispidulous base, up to 1 lin. long ; 
inflorescences peduncled, few- (usually 3-) flowered, capitate or 
shortly spicate ; peduncles simple or more rarely divided, glabrous 
or sometimes sparingly and very minutely hispidulous 1-6 (usually 
about 3) lin. long; with two lateral scale-leaves at the base re- 
sembling the supporting scale-leaves, but usually narrower and more 
acute ; bracts and bracteoles broad-ovate to rotundate, subacute or 
obtuse, }-} lin. long, minutely and sometimes sparingly ciliolate or 
eciliolate ; perianth at the time of flowering 14-2 lin. long, quite 
glabrous apart from the outer segments which resemble the 
bracteoles and are like these often more or less ciliolate ; segments 
somewhat fleshy ; inner segments ovate-oblong, obtuse, 11-1} lin. 
long ; stamens of the first 3 whorls fertile ; anthers ovate ; filaments 
glabrous, slightly narrowed towards the base, those of the second 
whorl very short, of the fourth whorl reduced to thick triangular 
sessile staminodes ; fruit yellow, globose, ellipsoid, 24-3 lin. long, 
crowned by the persistent perianth. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xv. i. 
254. C. triflora E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 97, 171 
(name only). C. capensis, Meisn. l.c. (incl. var. spicata). 
Coast Recion: Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drége! Cape Diy. ; Table 
Mountain, £cklon, 160! Zeyher, 3630b! Mountains near Cape Town, Burke ! 
Bolus, 2445! Harvey, 560! 483! Burchell, 331! 920! 486! 8434! Simons Bay, 
Wright! Knysna Div.; hills at Plettenbergs Bay, Burchell, 5332! 5342; 
Uitenhage Div. ; Uitenhage, Zeyher, 731! Zeyher, 3630a. 
C. glabella, E. Meyer (not of R. Br.) in th Zwei PA. Documente, 88, from Table 
Mountain belongs v robably here, whilst Cassyta sp. 8037, E. Meyer, Lc., is 
Cuscuta vaeploatas; iets: as is also Burchell, 3178, quoted by Meisner under 
C. capensis. 
3. C. pondoensis (Engl.in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 392) ; stems filiform, 
hairy all over, the young parts rusty tomentose, hairs at length 
