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9. GNIDIA, Linn. 
Calyx coloured, funnel-shaped; tube jointed, deciduous 
above the ovary; limb 4-parted, regular. Glands or scales 
4 or 8, inserted on the rim of the throat, exserted, petaloid or 
fleshy, 2-lobed or entire, glabrous or rarely tomentose. An- 
thers 8, subsessile in the throat, the upper ones half-exserted. 
Hypogynous ring obsolete or small. Ovary sessile; style 
lateral, equalling the tube; stigma capitate. Nut in the base 
of calyx.— DO. Prod. xiv. p. 580. 
Heath-like shrubs or undershrubs (rarely with broad leaves), with capitate 
or spiked, rarely solitary and axillary, often involucred flowers.—41 species, 
dispersed. 
10. LASIOSIPHON, Fresen. 
Character as Gnidia, except: Calyx with a 5-parted limb. ~ 
Scales 5, petaloid, glabrous, entire or 2-fid. Anthers 10.—DC. 
Prod. xiv. p. 593. 
Shrubs with the habit of Gnidia, with terminal, often peduncled, invo- 
lucred heads of flowers seated on a villous, convex receptacle. Base of 
perianth very hairy with long hairs ; tube pubescent, glabrous within.—12 
South African species, mostly Eastern. 
Orper CVI. LAURINEZ. 
Flowers bisexual or unisexual, small. Calyx mostly free, 
herbaceous or petaloid, usually 6-fid (rarely 4-9), the lobes 
imbricating in 2 rows. Stamens perigynous, definite, in 8-4 
rows, some (or all in the female flower) changed into glands 
seales or petaloid membranes (staminodia), those of the outer 
rows introrse, of the inner extrorse; anthers adnate, 2-4- 
celled, opening by valves. Ovary single, usually free, 1- 
celled; ovule solitary, pendulous; style simple. Fruit fleshy 
or dry, nude or enclosed in the enlarged calyx-tube. Seed 
exalbuminous.—Chiefly tropical trees or shrubs, abundant in 
Asia and America, very rare in Africa. Leaves simple, mostly 
undivided and very entire, densely netted with veinlets, rigid, 
without stipules. 
Suborder 1. naureze. Forest trees or shrubs. 
Anthers 2-celled. Fruit enclosed in the calyx-tube . J. CRYPTOCARYA. 
Anthers 4-celled. Fruit sitting in the cup-like base of 
MEM NE Tc 2) | si) OMe Pee eMRNah asic oles ons 2. OREODAPHNE. 
Suborder 2. Cassytheze. Leafless, filiform, twining parasites. 
Character the same as that of the Suborder . . . . 3. CassyTHA. 
