308 CII. LAURINEJE. [ Litsea. 
Var. rufa. The rufous hairs w eto and persistent on the heater and 
underside of the leav risbane Saga Bay, Fraser, F. Mueller, W. Hill, 
Leichhardt ; Blue ME Miss y 
SUBORDER 2. CassvrHEX.—Leafless parasitical twiners. Flowers 
in spikes or racemes. Anther-valves opening upwards. 
The suborder is limited to a single genus. 
7, CASSYTHA, Linn. 
_ Flowers hermaphrodite (or semi-dicecious ?). Perianth-segments 6, 
the 3 outer ones short broad and resembling the bracts, the t - or 
pe (when full arde at least cit as long, almost valva e 
an early stage, but com letely consolidated when ripe, as 
appearance of a fleshy albumen at the base of hich the plumula simu- 
lates an embryo.—Leafless meets with filiform or wiry twining da 
attaching themselves là living plants (usually shrubs or trees) pp is 
f small haustoria (suckers). Leaves replaced by minute scales. 
small, sometimes very minute, in pedunculate or rarely sessile parton 
which are either reduced to close heads or elongated and interrupted, 
racemes: each flower sessile or pedicellate within a minute scale- 
ike | bract, wi 2 similar bracteoles close under the periant nth. 
The genus is chiefly Australian and more or less maritime, and the spec cies € 
rated are all oars. with the exception of one ween extends also aet the pen 
regions of A , Asia, and America. "There are besides one or tw species from 
es Afri = bait ‘es from Borneo which may be "distinct, but require ° farther "T 
gat 
he e ano: — habit of Cassytha, so exactly that of Cuscuta, has induced Lindley 
He cds se it as a distinct natural gia but the a hoc of the flower a 
precisely that of VONEIPUPIS, hg it has been again reniei Laurine® m 
order. The fruit is also the s wih the exception T M endocarp, ê 
P bested = so comple st! ottiolidhtód hi in the ripe $ed, that Gertner ia scr rioed h them 
a fleshy albumen, Tei ing the plumula, which is at least as much evel 
ot; the anii L Browr Grit ad 
ess and fully corroborates. Brown's sand Griffith’s statements, explain 
ng seemed to | 
writing, however, to Dr. Thwaites in Ceylon, he has kindly Aber the dictt — 
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