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tent in flower; leaves alternate or sub- 
opposite, penninerved ate .. 13. LitsEa. 
Fertile stamens 6; involucral bracts early 
deciduous; leaves alternate or subverti- 
cillate, 3-ribbed.. MH: .. 14. NEOLITSEA. 
Anthers 2-celled (Tribe VII. LaurEz 
Fertile stamens usually 9 or 12; mvolucral 
bracts deciduous or not; leaves alternate 
or sub-opposite, penninerved or 3-ribbed.. 15. LINDERA. 
Leafless filiform twining parasites with suckers ; stamens 
with 4-celled anthers, outer two rows introrse, inner 
row extrorse (Tribe VIII. CassytTHrm) .. .. 16. CassyTHa. 
Tribe 1.—CRYPTOCARYEA. 
1. Cryprocarya, R. Br. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves usually alternate, penninerved 
or 3-ribbed, more or less coriaceous. Flowers small, hermaphrodite, 
in axillary or subterminal pedunculate panicles. Perianth-tube tur- 
binate or ovoid, after flowering constricted at the top; lobes 6, sub- 
equal. Perfect stamens 9, those of the 1st row introrse, opposite the 
outer 3 lobes of the perianth; those of the 2nd row introrse, opposite 
the 3 inner lobes; within and alternate with the stamens 6 stipitate 
glands; slightly within these again the 3 extrorse stamens of the 3rd 
row opposite the stamens of the lst row; again, slightly within these, 
3 stipitate cordate staminodes opposite the stamens of the 2nd row. 
Ovary sessile at the bottom of the perianth-tube in which it is 
enclosed; style shortiy exserted ; stigma obtuse or capitate. Fruit 
wholly enclosed in the perianth-tube which is accresent, drupaceous, 
hardened or fleshy, smooth or ribbed, the mouth occluded, the limb 
deciduous or more or less persistent ; pericarp membranous or thinly 
crustaceous, more or less free from the perianth-tube. Seed with a 
membranous testa often not separable from the pericarp; cotyledons 
thick, fleshy; radicle minute.—Distr1B. Species about 40, tropical 
and subtropical, in both hemispheres. 
I have followed Bentham (Fl. Austral. V. 294) and Koorders and Valeton 
(Bijdr. X. 211) in describing the glands as free and alternate with the stamens 
of the Ist and 2nd row instead of being attached to those of the 3rd. If a fully 
open flower is examined it will be seen that the glands are inserted between 
the stamens of the 2nd and 3rd rows. If such @ flower is flattened out care- 
fully and the staminodes and 3rd row stamens removed (they often come 
away together in a ring), the 6 outer stamens and the 6 glands alternate with 
