314 ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Casytas. 
four, five, or six, (five most common,) inserted round — 
the middle of the clavate receptacle which elevates them, — 
the stamina and pistil above the calyx lincar-lanceolar. — eS 
Filaments four, five, or six, corresponding with the num- — 
ber of petals, inserted on the receptacle below the germ, 
rather shorter than the corol. Anthers oblong. Germ ob-— 
liquely obcordate, one-celled, containing one ovula at- 
tached to the upper part of the cell a little to one side, 
and immediately under the insertion of the long curved 
style, Stigma simple. “ae 
CASSYTA. git: 
Calyx three-leaved. Corol three-petalled. Filaments : a 
petaliform ; the inner three with glands at the base. Ne 
tarial glands three, alternate with the appendaged fila- 
ments. Drupe inferior, one-seeded. sabe 
C, filiformis, Willd. 2. 487. 
Filiform, lax, leafless. 
_ Acatsja valli. Rheed. Mal. 7. t. 44, 
Sans. Akashavuli. 
Teling. Paunch tiga. aes 
A thread-like leafless parasitic plant, found pane a 
on, and twisting round the branches of trees, &c. in ab — 
most every part of the Coast and in Bengal. ee 
Spikes lateral, ascending. Flowers small, white, ras 
ther remote. Bractes three-fold, embracing the fructifi- 
cation, like a calyx, and only a little less than it. Ca- 
lyx three-leaved ; leaflets very small, round, permanent 
Corol ; petals three, oblong, many times larger than the — 
calyx. .Nectary (I call what have been termed filaments — 
such) composed of nine, stameniferous leaflets and nine — 
glands ; the leaflets stand in three,series, those of the ex 
terior series are clubbed, lying immediately over the petals, 
and rather shorter than hey are ; on the inside naar lt 
