314 ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Casijtas. 



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 linear-lanceolar. 

 Filaments four, five, or six, corresponding with the num- 

 ber of petals, inserted on the receptacle below the germ, 

 lather shorter than the corol. Anthers oblong. Germ ob- 

 liquely obcordate, one-celled, containing one ovula at- 

 tached to the up})cr part of the cell a little to one side, 

 and immediately under the insertion of the long curved 

 btyle. Stigma simple. 



CJSSYTA. 



Calyx three-leaved. Corol three-petalled. Filaments 

 pet aliform ; the inner three with glands at the base. Nee- 

 iarial glands three, alternate with the appendaged fila- 

 ments. Drupe inferior, one-seeded. 



C. filiformis. Willd. 2. 487. 



Filiform, lax, leafless. 



Acatsja valli. Rlieed. Mai. 7. t. 44. 



Sans. Akasbavwli. 



Telini). Paunch tiga. 



A thread-like leafless parasitic plant, found growing 

 on, and twisting round the branches of trees, &c. in al- 

 most every part of the Coast and in Bengal. 



Spikes lateral, ascending. Flowers small, white, ra- 

 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 (1 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 they are ; on the inside near the 



