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above. Stamens 3 sterile, opposite folioles, minute, or 2, opposite 

 posterior folioles; the third very small or 0. Germon inferior 1- 

 locular ; style slender cylindrical elongate, at apex capitate stigma- 

 tose, subentire or slightly 3-lobed. Ovules 1-3, descending, inserted 

 on short 1 -cellular funicle, anatropous, reduced to an amniotic (?) 

 sac. Fruit scantily drupaceous ; putamen thin. Seed 1 , descending ; 

 albumen fleshy oily large-celled ; embryo superior ovoid small-celled 

 oily. — Fleshy (coloured) parasitic plants, starch-bearing ; rhizome 

 ... ? ; aerial floral branches scaly ; flowers in a terminal 2-sexual 

 spike ; males above ; females below more numerous, 1-bracteate ; 

 lateral bracteoles 2 ; female portion of inflorescence much longer 

 than male. (South Africa.) — See p. 505. 



5. Cynomorium Micheli. — Flowers polygamous. Receptacle 

 of male flower short ; folioles of perianth (?) 1-8, oftener unequally 

 distant bracteiform linear-clavate (coloured). Stamen 1, [or rarely 

 (?) 2] ; filament slender erect subulate ; anther introrse, versatile ; 

 cells 2, introrse, 2-locellate, longitudinally rimose. Germen rudi- 

 mentary oblong clavate canaliculate, obtuse at apex. Receptacle of 

 female flower ovoid very concave, enclosing adnate germen, bearing 

 at or under the margin of the perianth bracteiform folioles similar 

 to those of the male flower (sometimes more rarely 0). Germen 

 inferior, 1-locular ; style simple stigmatose. Ovule 1, co -cellular, 

 inserted under apex of cell, descending, incompletely anatropous ; 

 micropyle downwards ; coat simple. Hermaphrodite flower similar 

 to female ; stamen 1 (as in male flower) epigynous, interior to 

 perianth. Fruit nutlike ; pericarp thin subcoriaceous. Seed 1 , 

 descending, filling cell ; testa rather thick ; subcorneous oily ; radicle 

 of ovoid embryo acute facing micropyle ; cellules small oily. — (Red) 

 fleshy parasitic plants ; rhizome tuberous ramose, clothed with root- 

 like processes of various form ; aerial floral branches scaly, partly 

 naked ; flowers in cylindrical or oblong ovoid terminal spike ; males 

 sessile on common receptacle ; hermaphrodite and female small few 

 in secondary axes, racemosely cymose (?), bracteate. (Mediterranean 

 regions, European, African, and Asiatic, the East, Soungaria, 

 Canary Isles.) — See p. 506. 



6 ? Langsdorffia Mart. — Flowers monoecious. Male flower : 

 perianth 2-3-merous (coloured) ; folioles ovate marginate concave, 



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