Gassy tha LAURACEiE 219 



the inner glandular and the 1 -celled anthers extrorse ; staminodes 

 large. Fruit globose, enclosed by the succulent perianth-tube, 

 and crowned by the persistent segments. 



Species 16, one cosmopolitan in the tropics, one in tropical 

 Africa, two in South Africa, one in Ceylon and Borneo, and the 

 rest Australian. 



C. fillformis L. Sp. PL 35 (1753) ; Jacq. Sel. Stirxj. Amer. 115, 

 i. 79 & Ed. pict. t. 116 ; Nees Syst. 642 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 

 XV. pt. 1, 255 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. «;. 311 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 V. 188 ; Stapf in Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. Sect. 1, 1S8 & in Fl. Cap. v. 

 Sect. 1, 500. C. americana Nees Syst. 644 (1836); Griseb. Fl. 

 Br. W. Ind. 285 ; Meisn. op. cit. 256 & in Fl. Bras. v. pt. 2, 295, 

 /. 107 ; Mez in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. v. 490 & in Urh. Symh. 

 Ant. iv. 249. Cuscuta baccifera Barbadensium &c. Pluk. Aim. 

 126, t. 112, f. 2 (specimen in Hb. Sloane xcv. 205). (Fig. 89.) 



In fl. Oct.-Dec. ; Pedro plain, Purdie ! Healthshire Hills, 50 ft. ; Corby, 

 1500 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9525, 9684. — Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



Stem '5-2 mm. thick. Flowers about 2 mm. 1. Fruit 6 mm. in diam. 



Family XXIX. HERNANDIACE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, 3— 7-nerved at or a little 

 above the base, pinnately nerved above, without stipules. Cymes 

 long-stalked, corymbose or panicled, axillary. Perianth superior, 

 segments generally in two valvate 3-5-parted whorls. Stamens 

 opposite the outer segments. Anthers 2 -celled, opening inwards 

 by valves. Staminodes more or less glandular, in 1 or 2 whorls 

 usually outside the stamens, or wanting; those of the outer 

 •whorl in pairs at the base of the stamens, those of the inner 

 whorl alternate with the stamens. Ovary inferior, 1 -celled ; 

 ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit dry. Seed solitary, without 

 endosperm. Embryo straight ; cotyledons large, lobed (in 

 Hernandia). 



Species about 35, natives of the tropics. 



HERNANDIA L. 



Trees. Leaves entire. Cymes corymbose, bracteate ; cymules 

 surrounded by an involucre of 4-5 bracts, usually 3-flowered, the 

 central flower female, the two lateral male. Flowers monoecious. 

 Male flower : perianth-segments 6 or 8 ; stamens 3 or 4 ; 

 staminodes twice as many as the stamens and attached one on 

 either side at the base of each filament, or as many and alternate, 

 or absent. Female flower surrounded at the base by a cupular 

 involucel ; perianth-segments 8 or 10; staminodes 4 or 5, 



