Hernandia.'] LauvacecE. 455 



at Haputale in April; it is in very young flower, the anthers are 2-ceIled, 

 and it appears to be truly a Liiidera. 



9. CASSVTKA, L. 



Leafless parasites with twining filiform stems provided 



with suckers, fl. minute, usually bisexual, bracteate, in short 



spikes or heads ; per.-tube short, becoming much enlarged 



and fleshy and enclosing fruit, segm. 6, in 2 rows ; stam. 9, in 



three rows, fil. of first and second rows without glands, of 



third row with 2 globose glands, anth. all 2-celled, of 2 outer 



rows introrse of inner row extrorse ; fruit enclosed in but 



free from enlarged succulent per.-tube. — Species 15; 2\nFL 



B. hid. 



Has the habit of Ctiscuta precisely. 



Fruit globose I. C. FILIFORMIS. 



Fruit oblong-ovoid . . . . 2. C. CAPILLARIS. 



1. C. filiformis, Z. Sp. PL 35 (1753). 

 Moon Cat. 33. Thw. Enum. 258. C. P. 1923. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 188. Wight, Ic. t. 1847. 



Stems very long, cord-like, twined and matted together, 

 branched, glabrous or pubescent, dark green ; fl. small, sessile, 

 in very short lax divaricate spikes, bracts small, ciliate; per.- 

 tube short, segm. 6 in two rows, outer row short, inner large, 

 acute, concave, valvate ; fruit about \ in., globose, enclosed in 

 fleshy per.-tube and crowned with erect per.-segm., white, 

 smooth. 



Parasitic on various bushes in the low country, especially near the 

 coast, in both moist and dry regions; common. Fl. Jan.-March ; white. 



Throughout the Tropics. 



2. C. capillaris, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. i, 252 (1864). 

 C. P. 3982. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 188. 



Stems very slender, thread-like, twining, branched, twisted 

 and matted together, glabrous, pale green; fl. few, sessile, in 

 small shortly peduncled heads ; per.-segm. ovate, obtuse ; 

 fruit about \ in., oblong-ovoid, bluntly 6-angled. 



Moist low country, very rare. Between Kalutara and Aggalawatte 

 (Thwaites). Fl. June; white. 

 Also in Borneo. 



10. HERNANDIA, Z. 



Tree, 1. alt., fl, unisexual, monoecious, in panicles, fem, 

 with a cupular calyx-like involucel at base which becomes 



