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Cassytha. 

 Fruit, entire and cut (mag.) 



Cassytha filiformis. 



Cassytha, 

 Diagram. 



Sparattanthelium. 

 Embryo, 



Cinnamon. 

 Fruit, entire and cut. 



FLOWERS g or polygamous. PERIANTH simple, monosepalous, 6-4-9-jfa?. 

 STAMENS perigynous, as many as the perianth-lobes, or a multiple, alternately fertile and 

 sterile ; ANTHERS 2-celled or 4>-locellate, opening from below upwards by valvules. 

 OVARY 1-celled; OVULE pendulous, anatropous. FRUIT a drupe or berry. SEED 

 solitary, inverse, exalbuminous. EMBRYO straight. RADICLE superior. 



TREES or SHRUBS, rarely UNDERSHRUBS, aromatic, sometimes foetid, very rarely 

 aphyllous parasitic twining HERBS (Cassytha}. LEAVES alternate, sometimes close 

 together, sub-opposite or sub-whorled, simple, entire, penniuerved, or palrninerved, 

 finely reticulate, coriaceous and persistent, or rarely soft and deciduous, punctate 

 with glands filled with a volatile oil, and often pellucid ; stipules 0. CYMES 3-oo - 

 (sometimes 1-) flowered, racemed or panicled or umbelled, capitate, bracteate at the 

 base, rarely with a 4-6-phyllous or scaly-imbricate involucre. FLOWERS or 

 diclinous, regular, small, white or yellow or green, usually scented. PERIANTH simple 

 (CALYX), monosepalous, herbaceous or petaloid, rarely coriaceous, sometimes fleshy, 

 or hardened when ripe, rotate, infundibuliform or urceolate, 6~ (rarely 4- very rarely 

 9-) fid ; lobes 2-seriate, imbricate, equal, or the outer smaller; tube usually persistent, 

 often more or less accrescent, and changed into a cup surrounding the base of the 

 fruit. STAMENS inserted at the base or throat of the calyx, definite, very rarely sub- 

 indefinite (Tetranthera} , 3-4-seriate, reduced in ? to glands, scales, or staminodes ; 

 g and <? flowers with the outer stamens introrse, 4-6 or 9 usually fertile, eglandular 

 at the base; the inner extrorse, 2-3 usually fertile and 2-glandular at the base; 

 filaments free, or very rarely monadelphous, usually dilated at the top ; anthers ovoid 

 or oblong, sometimes acuminate from the connective being prolonged beyond the 

 cells; cells 2, parallel, often transversely 2-locellate, and opening from the base 



