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solitary ; involucre 4-leaved deciduous {Tropical and subtropical Asia, 

 Japan 1 ). 



46. Lindera Thunb. — Flowers nearly of Daphiidium ; perianth 

 C-leaved deciduous. Stamens 9 (in female flower sterile filiform) ; 

 inner 3 or 6 with 2 stipitate glands at base ; anthers ovate obtuse 

 2 -celled, all introrse or inner sublateral. Germen free ; style slender ; 

 apex 2- or 3 : lobed stigmatiferous. Berry supported on entire or 

 6-cleft receptacle. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate penniveined or 

 tripli veined, herbaceous, entire or 3-lobed, deciduous ; leaf-buds 

 perulate ; umbellules of flowers fascicled, or subumbellate or fascicled 

 on a short peduncle, surrounded by a 4-leaved involucre [Tropical 

 Asia, Japan, North America). See p. 438. 



47. Laurus T. — Flowers dioecious or polygamous; perianth 

 4-leaved subpetaloid, or more rarely 2-8 -leaved deciduous. Stamens 

 12; filaments all possessing a stipitate gland on each side halfway 

 up ; anthers all introrse 2-locellate (stamens in female flower 

 usually 4 sterile ligulate). Germen (in male flower 0) free; style 

 short ; apex obtusely 3-gonous stigmatiferous. Berry ovate, sup- 

 ported on truncate or irregular receptacle ; pericarp thin fleshy ; 

 embryo thick ovate ; cotyledons, plano-convex very fleshy oily, 

 sheathing around superior radicle. — Aromatic evergreen trees ; 

 leaves alternate coriaceous ; flowers umbellulate, involucrate in 

 membranous deciduous bracts ; umbellules varying in number, in- 

 serted on a short axillary twig, which is often gemmiparous at apex 

 {Asia Minor, Canary Islands). See p. 439. 



V. CASSYTHE^. 



48. Cassytha L. — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely polyga- 

 mous ; receptacle thick, urceolate. Perianth inserted in mouth of 

 receptacle, persistent ; calyx short 3-leaved ; corolla much longer ; 

 leaves orbicular concave valvate. Stamens 12, inserted with peri- 

 anth ; outer 9 fertile ; 3 superposed petals and connate therewith at 

 base, and 3 alternate glandless introrse ; 3 (of third row) 2-glandular 



1 Species 15. Nees, Syst., r o17 (Polyadenid) ; iv. 3, 20G {Benzoin ?)— MiQ., Fl. Ind.-Ilil., i. 

 in Wall PI. Asiat. Rar., ii. G3 (Dajrfmidium). 962 (Polj/adenia), 957 (Tetrcmthera). — WalP., 

 — Sieb. & Zucc, in Abhandl. d. Milnch. Akad., Ann., i. 577. 



