Cassytha.| LAURACEAE. 383 
obtuse at both ends, 2-celled, with valvular Sein the cells in front 
of a broad connective which extends beyond them; the 3 inner anthers 
extrorse (?), ovoid, apiculate, alternating with broad oe staminodia. 
Ovary free, ovoid; style short obtuse. Ovule 1, pendulous. Drupe ovoid- 
globose, black, dryish, about 8” high, 12-ribbed; the thin putamen closely 
adherent to the perianth. Seed with thin testa, the large amygdaloid 
cotyledons plano-convex, the radicle quite small, superior. — Oreodaphne? 
pa Enum. no, 403 
Vso he aimea, Kauai! about 2000 ft. above sd sea (M. & B 
ods 584, 72). 
aaa ¢ speci had only quite young buds. From Mr. Knudsen _ caves a few 
With pre neers more ady: an sain in which I was Resi to make out the character 
he outer anthers 4 iti 
f hee anthers ar absence of glands has erified yet with aid o 
material. Tr upe has no tr f tila at the base, as is the in Oreodaphne ; 
but whether i ked or covered by the perigone is not so certain. The latter st 
I have inferred from the ES at the top n disk 0, in h 
ew sma v0die of anthers; but, if really present, 
the ae is vistas series: auld th e drupe, a condition not quite in agreement 
Cryptocarya. The generic position of the tree, therefore, still remains under some doubt. 
2. CASSYTHA, L. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, Perianth oyoid or tubular, with 3 inner equal 
lobes and 3 outer minute ones. Fertile stamens 9, the 3 inner with 
2 glands at the base. Anthe pee those of the inner stamens 
turned outwards. Staminodes 4 mall. Ovary free; style short; stigma 
depressed. Fruit enclosed in Ae succulent tube of the ES —_ 
Parasitical twiners with the habit of Cuscuta, the leaves reduced to minute 
scales, Flowers sessile in axillary spikes, each supported .by 3 bracts. 
A small genus, distributed over the tropical regions of the New and Old World, 
1. C, filiformis, LZ. — Meisn. in DC. Prod. XV, Sect. I, p. 255. — Stems fili- 
form or wiry, glabrous or slightly pubescent when young, twining round and 
attaching themselves to other plants by means of small protuberances or 
suckers, Flowers small, distant, in spikes of 1—2‘. Perianth about 1'/2“ 
the inner lobes obovate, longer than the tube, the outer ones equal and 
similar to the small rounded bracts. Filaments of the 3 outer stamens 
petal-like, of the 6 others filiform. Fruit fap 3“ in diameter, crowned 
sh the connivent salma -lobes. —- Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 294. 
Seattered over the e group, but frequent ae on the island of ‘ete The 
species extends from Roar Africa and Asia into Australia and Polynesi 
Orper LXXIV. THYMELAEACEAE. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Perianth tubular or campanulate, 
4—5-lobed, the lobes imbricate in the bud, with the uaa in many 
genera of 1 or 2 small scales alternating with the lobes at their base 
mens as many or twice as many as lobes, or rarely 2 pe ae if of 
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