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perianth-tube and crowned by the perianth-lobes. Seed with thin 

 testa, cotyledons at length confluent. Species 15, one of which is 

 widely spread throughout the tropics ; 1 or 2 are found in S. Africa 

 and in Borneo ; the rest are Australian. 



C. flliformis, Linn. Sp. PL 35 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 314, F. B. 

 1. v, 188 ; Watt E. D. ; Prain Beng. PL 904 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 

 i f 542. Vern. Amarbeli. 



A twining leafless parasite with the habit of Cuscuta, quite glabrous or 

 the young parts puberulous. Stems long, slender, cord-like, often 

 intricately matted, branched, dark-green. Flowers small, sessile, 

 in lax dense divaricate spikes J-2 in. long ; bracteoles small, rounded, 

 ciliate. Perianth twice as long as the bracteoles, tube short ; segments 

 6, in two rows, the three outer short ; the inner longer, oblong, acute, 

 concave, valvate. Fruit abcut J in. in diam., globose, smooth, white, 

 enclosed in the fleshy perianth -tube and crowned by the erect seg- 

 ments. 



Uundelkhand (Edgeworth), and probably in many other localities within 

 the area. DISTBIB. : Throughout the greater part of India, espe- 

 cially near the sea-coast, also, in Ceylon, the S. Andaman Islands, 

 extending to the Malay Pen. and Islands, Arabia, Mascarene Islands, 

 Irop. Africa, Australia, Polynesia and America. 



The following plants belonging to genera not indigenous within the area 

 of this flora deserve to be briefly mentioned : 



CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANicuM, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii, 74 ; F. B. I. 

 v, 131; DC. ISOrig. Pi. Cult. 116 ; Brandis For. FL 375 ; Ind. Trees 

 533 ; Watt Comm. Prod. Ind.; Prain Beng. PL 899 ; Cooke FL Bomb- 

 ii, 535. Laurus Cinnamomum, Roxb. FL Ind. ii, 295. The bark 

 of this tree yields the true cinnamon of commerce. It is found wild 

 in W. & S India, Ceylon and Burma, and is cultivated in the Malay 

 Islands and elsewhere in the tropics. 



C. T AM ALA, T. Nee* and Eberm. ; F. B. I. v, 128 ; C. albiftorum, Nees ; 

 Royle 111. 325. Laurus Cassia, Roxb. FL Ind. ii, 297. Vern. Dakhini, 

 tezpat. A moderate-sized evergreen tree, closely allied to C. zeylani- 

 cum. It is found abundantly on the outer Himalayan ranges up to 

 7,000 ft., and the root-bark and leaves are much valued for medicinal 

 purposes. 



. CAMPHORA, T. Nees and Eberm. (The Camphor tree of China and 

 Japan). An evergreen tree much cultivated in Indian gardens. It 



