a6 GARDNER ON CASSYTHA, &C. 
alyx bursting from below and about to fall off. Fig. 3, the two pe : 
the calyx having separated. Fig. 4, single carpe), inner view. Fig. 5 
transverse section of a carpel. Fig. 6, embryo :—magnified.) — En. 
CASSYTHA. Linn. 
Hitherto included in the Natural Order Lauracee, this 
genus has recently been separated from that tribe, and con- 
stituted a distinct Order by Dr Lindley, chiefly from it be- | 
ing ‘too violent a shock to our ideas of resemblance, to 
include in the very same order a plant like our wild Cuscuta, 
and the noble forest-trees of which the majority of Lauracee | 
consists," (Lindl. Nat. Syst. 2d ed. p. 202.) The char- 
acter which he gives of the Order, is taken from Nees Von 
Esenbeck, who ranks it as a section of Lauracez; and in Dr 
Lindley’ s opinion it seems to contain sufficient distinctions, 
independent of habit, to define Cassythacee as a peculiar - 
Order. An examination of the recent flowers and fruit ofa  — 
species of this genus, which I have lately found near this _ 
place, exhibits a very different structure from that given by - 
Nees Von Esenbeck as adopted by Lindley. This species — 
grows on the ascent of the Serra de Araripe, twining prin- 
cipally on the stems and branches of a tall fruticose species of 
Ginothera, and the stems of a species of Lisianthus. It 
agrees with the character of Cassytha pubescens, R. Br., as 
given in Sprengel’s Systema Vegetabilium, and is probably — 
the same species. The following note was made at the time _ 
of examination :— Tube of the calyx free, globose; limb E 
6-parted, converging, the segments in two rows, those of the _ 
external row much smaller than those of the internal; stamens — 
9, inserted on the tube of the calyx in three circles, the ex- _ 
ternal and internal row alternating with the large calycine — 
segments, the middle row opposite to them. External to the _ 
three inner stamens, there is a row of three small yellow | 
glands, and internal to them another row of three also; | 
anthers 2-celled, the cells of the two external rows opening in- - 
wards, from the base to the apex by permanent valves, those 
of the inner row open outwards in the same manner; ovarium - 
