348 CXIII. MYRICER. 
1. MYRICA, Linn. 
Character the same as that of the Order.—Endl. Gen. n. 
1839; DC. Prod. xvi. pt. 2. p. 147. 
There are nine Cape species dispersed through the colony. The fleshy 
scales that clothe the fruit of some species secrete a sort of vegetable wax, 
which may be profitably collected. 
Orper CXIV. RAFFLESIACEAs, 
Calyx monophyllous, regular. Corolla 0. Anthers nume- 
rous, in a simple series. Ovary with many, mangy-ovuled 
placentas; ovules orthotropous. Fruit indehiscent, fleshy, 
many-seeded. Seeds microscopic; embryo with or without 
albumen, undivided.—Fleshy, leafless, but often scaly, co- 
loured parasites on the roots, rarely on the stems of dicotyle- 
donous plants. 
Calyx fleshy, 3-fid, with valvate estivation. . . . . . 1. Hypwnora. 
Calyx 6-fid, imbricate in the bud. . .... . . . 2 CYTINUS. 
TRIBE 1. HypNorRER. 
1. HYDNORA, Thunb. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx fleshy, tubular, 3-fid, with 
valvate estivation. Stamens monadelphous; anthers nume- 
rous, longitudinally splitting, connate in a 8-lobed ring, each 
lobe opposite one of the segments of the perianth. Ovary 
inferior, 1-celled ; stigma sessile, depressed, 3-lobed, each lobe 
formed of many, parallel lamell, distinct down to the cavity 
of the ovary, and there placentiferous ; placentas very nume- 
rous, pendulous from the roof of the ovarian cavity, every- 
where covered with orthotropous ovules. Pericarp globose, 
fleshy, filled with the enlarged seed-bearing placentas. Em- 
bryo globose, in the centre of cartilaginous albumen.—&. Br. 
in Linn. Trans. xix. p. 244; Harv. Thes. t. 187-8 ; Endl. Gen. 
n. 724. 
Fleshy, offensively-scented parasites on the roots of Euphorbia, in the 
Western and North-Western districts. Their stems are underground, 4- 
angled, and tuberculated along the angles. The flowers 4-6 in. long, issuing 
from a tubercle of the stem, with a duil brown, scurfy or irregularly areo- 
lated coat; the segments are internally of a rosy-red, which is also the 
colour of the fleshy parts.—2 species known. 
TRIBE 2. CYTINES. 
2. CYTINUS, Linn. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious. Calyx tubular, 4—8-fid 
(the Cape species 6-fid), with imbricated estivation.—Male : 
