Cassytha. | ; CII], LAURINEX. 313 
l. C. pomiformis, Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 620. Rather slender and 
^s ical form glabrous. Spikes or racemes short and rigid, at 
first dense forming a small head, at length interrupted with the vet 
rather distant and sees on short t pedicels, the hoi and pedicels much 
thickened after flowering. Perianth about 1 line long. Stamens o 
posite the inner se fadi narrow but der those opposite the outer 
ee broad ind d almost petal-like. pete perianth small, ovoid, 
t ribbed.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 903; C. ceratopoda, Meissn. Lc. 
4 
3 
Drummond, n 151, and perhaps n. 150 (the latter in very young 
z E" doubtfeh Swan river, Preiss, n. 1625; King George's Sound, Harvey, F. 
8 typical form is near C. glabella, but as the flowering advances, the longer spike 
- bien pedicels will readily distinguish it 
ar. pubiflora. Flowers pubescent, with the Vit enka hairs of C. flava, but 
Pedicellate and more or less racemose. is o Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 253, 
partly; C. multiflora, Nees, in Pl. Pre 621: Meissn. is. 253.—W. Australia, 
mond, suppl. n. 63 ; King Qsinieit s iad, Pre: 88, n. 2629. 
SUBORDER 3. HERNANDIEX.— Trees or shrubs with perfect leaves. 
Flowers moncecious, the females with an involucel which enlarges an 
core € the fruit. Anther-valves opening laterally. Seeds without 
umen. 
Forme erly associated with Inocarpus, on grounds which now a ite unintelli- 
: pear quite uninte 
gible, in a distinet order, Herna hri has 25 left d "t I n: —À from the 
f eters given, that it had been related to E tion of the 
d wers, however, nce shows "orrectness o die Had ing 1t 1n 
e connection with Laurinese, with w ch Order Meissner was unwilling actually to 
unite iton account of the dehiscence of the anthers. The difference is, however, in 
mae ect but very small. The shape of the Prieta their basal glands, the innate 
‘ercells closed by deciduous valves, are precisely the same, the only distinction 
that in Laurineæ generally the valves are detached from the base upwards, and 
rior cong ta from the inner to the outer side. Another difference consists in the - 
becó vary, the perianth-tube being from the first adnate, whilst in Laurinec æ it er 
free "Oro es the fruit enlarges (e.g. in Oryptocarya and in Cassytha) or rema ains qu uite " 
Maki. the whole, therefore, it appears to me that Herr pri and the closely allie 
char tee ner Herna ndiopsis are best placed as a Suborder of Laurinese, — 
"acters of scarcely more importance ian those which distingoilh Cassytha 
8. HERNANDIA, Linn. 
qn lowers Moncecious. Perianth-segments in two rows, valvate in each 
Male A Seu bud, 3 or 4 in each row in n the males and 4 or 5 in the females. 
