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perianth-tube and crowned by the perianth-lobes. Seed with thin 
testa, cotyledons at length confluent.—Species 15, one of which is 
widely spread throughout the tropics ; 1 or 2 are found in 8. Africa 
and in Borneo ; the rest are Australian. 
C. filiformis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 35; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ti, 314, F. B. 
I. v, 188; Watt BE. D. ; Prain Beng. Pl. 904; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 
i, 541.—Vern. Amarbeli. 
A twining leafless parasite with the habit of Cuscuta, quite glabrous or 
the young parts puberulous. Stems long, slender, cord-like, often 
intricately matted, branched, dark-green. Flowers small, sessile, 
in lax dense divaricate spikes 4-2 in. long ; bracteoles small, rounded, 
ciliate. Perianth twice as long as the bracteoles, tube short ; segments 
6, in two rows, the three outer short ; the inner longer, oblong, acute, 
concave, valvate. Fruit abcut } in. in diam., globose, smooth, white, 
enclosed in the fleshy perianth-tube and crowned by the erect seg- 
ments. 
Bundelkhand (Edgeworth), and probably in many other localities within 
the area. DisTRir.: Throughout the greater part of India, espe- 
cially near the sea-coast, also, in Ceylon, the S. Andaman Islands, 
extending to the Malay Pen. and Islands, Arabia, Mascarene Islands, 
Trop. Africa, Australia, Polynesia and America. 
The following plants belonging to genera not indigenous within the area 
of this flora deserve to be briefly mentioned :— 
CCINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii, 74; F. B. I. 
v, 131; DC. L’ Orig. Pl. Cult. 116 ; Brandis For. Fl. 375 ; Ind. Trees 
533 ; Watt Comm, Prod. Ind.; Prain Beng. Pl. 899 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 
it, 535. Laurus Cnnamomum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 295.—The bark 
of this tree yields the true cinnemon of commerce. It is found wild 
in W. & S India, Ceylon and Burma, and is cultivated in the Malay 
Islands and elsewhere in the tropics. 
C. Tamara, T. Nees and Eberm. ; F. B. I. v, 128 ; C. albiflorum, Nees ; 
Royle lll. 325. Laurus Cassia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ti, 297. Vern. Dalchini, 
tezpat.—A moderate-sized evergreen tree, closely allied to C. zeylani- 
cum. It is found abundantly on the outer Himalayan ranges up to 
7,000 ft., and the roct-bark and leaves are much valued for medicinal 
purposes, 
C. Campuora, T. Nees and Eberm. (The Camphor tree of China and 
Japan).—An evergreen tree much cultivated in Indian gardens. It 
