3828 CVI. LAURINER. 
1. CRYPTOCARYA, R. Br. 
Flowers bisexual, panicled, bracteate. Calyx funnel-shaped, 
6-fid, the tube urceolate, persistent, enlarging, somewhat 
narrow in the throat, the lobes equal or subequal, at length 
deciduous. Fertile stamens 9, in the throat ; filaments short, 
flat, the 3 innermost with a sessile gland at each side at base ; 
anthers ovate-oblong, 2-celled, the 3 inner extrorse. Stami- 
nodia 3, shortly stipitate, ovate-oblong, acute, without glands. 
Style filiform, short; stigma subcapitate. Ovary completely 
immersed in the calyx-tube. Fruit hidden in the fleshy or dry, 
enlarged calyx-tube.—DC. Prod. xv. p. 68. 
Trees of both hemispheres, with alternate leaves and axillary or terminal, 
short panicles of flowers.—2 South African species. 
2. OREODAPHNE, Nees. 
Flowers mostly dicecious, panicled or racemose, nude. Calyx 
rotate or funnel-shaped, 6-parted, the lobes equal or sub- 
equal, deciduous. Fertile stamens 9 (in the female changed 
into glands or scales) ; filaments short, the 3 inner with basal 
glands; anthers ovate or oblong, 4-celled, the cells super- 
posed, 8 inner extrorse; staminodia 0 or obsolete. Berry 
sitting in the short, cup-like base of calyx-—DC. Prod. xv. p. 
1. 
Trees, chiefly American. O. bullata, Nees, which yields the well-known 
*‘Stinkwood ” of cabinet makers, is the only Cape species. 
3. CASSYTHA, Linn. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx urceolate or at first rotate, 
6-fid, persistent, the 3 outer lobes smaller, the tube at length 
globose and fleshy. Fertile stamens 9, in the throat; fila- 
ments short, broad; anthers 2-celled, the 3 inner extrorse, 
with glands at base, alternating with 3 triangular or gland- 
like staminodia. Ovary enclosed in the calyx-tube, free ; 
style short ; stigma depressed. Fruit enclosed in the fleshy 
calyx-tube.— DC. Prod. xv. p. 252. 
Leafless, cord-like parasites, scrambling over bushes, etc., like Cuscute, 
and similarly attached by lateral disks. Flowers capitate, spiked or race- 
mose, each 3-bracted at base.—2 Cape species, of which C. Capensis is com- 
mon throughout the colony. 
Orver CVII. PROTEACES. 
Calyx 4-cleft or 4-parted; lobes valvate in bud. Stamens 
perigynous, 4 (1 sometimes sterile), opposite the lobes of the 
perianth ; anthers 2-celled, splitting. Ovary free, sessile or 
stalked, 1-celled ; ovules solitary or in pairs (or numerous in 
