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Cassytha. | CIII. LAURINER. ; 309 
pancies by the circumstance that it is only at an early stage that the cotyledons are 
cy -— net, the line of demarcation becoming bentes a eee ma "s is 
ral saik es the specimens show two forms o ‘ar t indi- 
b wi i the one the perianth-tube is exceedingly erg in inde a er it is ertet and 
aslong as the sezments. In both, the stamens as well as the TAE e per- 
he usually more advanced in the latter than in the former ; but Y ave not as yet 
d any intermediate state, a circumstance which suggests a certain Mg fs gu 
view, however, I Bust c concu 
Flowers sessile in a n ike o ned 
dde capitate, very a (ie spikes contracted into ovoid 
globose or few- tive d heads). : 
Spikes sessile. Flowers very few OV aet. “io nodiflora: 
co pedunculate. Flowers few, g zlabrous 2. C. glabella. 
pedunculate. Flowers sible numerous, densely pu 
. 3. C. flava. 
(The spikes of 9, C. mierantha, 4, c pubescens, and 8, C. me- 
ntha, are sometimes c port ate w d.) 
Flowers Spicate, the spikes when fully buf "oblong o = elongated, 
he lower or all the flowers more or less bus 
mae Det or villous. Ovary hirs E d 
iti erian 
faba a t, almost capitate when hos ruiting p A a0 ERE 
pikes bhigire: Flowers all distant: Fruiting perianth ; 
obovoid or pear-sha aped 5. C. pheolasia. 
Flowers -. ue or nearly so. Ova ary gla abro 
Flowers o 1j lines long. Spikes S ‘elongated, the 
istant. : 
Fruiting. perianth with 6 raised ribs . : 6. C. paniculata. 
ruiting perianth smooth, the ribs scarcely v visible x p. Latins 
fius 2 ines in ^d Spikes very short ME ÉA me ka 
H rs 4 line Spikes short but slen 9. C. micrantha. 
Pun Ct fully « o) ‘edicelat in a raceme, initia ‘almost 
ned into an 
imo Sponte the i orem perishte segments vas fede linear ab WE 
Stamens all Meri Wd? d di eae vp dites 
have been unabl a. ; ta Hees in Pl. Preiss. i. 620, from 
tala, Pitney ; y St ene RM 254), d scribed as 'dicci ji 
= pubescent, hy - rt recurved peduncles, short dense spikes, the stamens = 
emale flowers all reduced Hie hibad petal-like staminodia 
Ste ora, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 252. ri enar 
9 nt meg Spikes closely sessile at the pv des dae bul 
" 6 rather small sessile flowers quite glabrous. Bracts broad, , 
eade on slightly frin ihe Perianth nearly 1 line long. Fruit 
"Nl nearly 2 lines ong, but not seen perfect. 
flower). Astralia, OSES n. 149 (in young fruit), 5th coll n. 226 and 228 (in 
IE C. glabella, X. Br. Prod. 404. abre Stems filiform. pes 
: E culate, reduced to heads of 3 to 6 or rarely more very sma 
/ wwe Perianth $ line long, quite gaeti i well as the bracts; in 
diei Specimens the tube undeve oped but the ovaries perfect, in others 
ps flowers rather longer and the tube enclosing the ovary but the sta- 
