202 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
phrodite, sometimes dimorphic, spicate, capitate or racemose : 
bracteoles 3. Perianth-tube short and globose or turbinate and as. 
long as the lobes; segments 6, the 3 outer smaller. Perfect stamens 
9 or 6, 2-celled ; those of the 1st row opposite the outer perianth- 
lobes, introrse, those of the 2nd row opposite the inner perianth- 
lobes, introrse, sometimes reduced to staminodes ; those of the 3rd 
row opposite those of the Ist row, extrorse, the filaments with a pair 
of glands at the base; within these and opposite those of the 2nd row 
3 sessile or stipitate staminodes. Ovary globose, free in flower but 
included in the perianth-tube, which closely covers it in fruit; style 
short; stigma subsessile, small or capitate. /ruit a drupe enclosed in 
the enlarged inflated perianth-tube which is crowned by the remains 
of the lobes and stamens; pericarp of two layers, the outer thin 
and smooth, the inner thick and hard. Seed conform to the drupe; 
testa thin; cotyledons fleshy, at length confluent.—DistTris. Species- 
about 15, chiefly Australian, with a few S. African, one in Borneo 
and one widely distributed. 
CASSYTHA FILIFORMIS, Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 35. Stems very long, 
cord-like, much twisted together, often branched, glabrous or pubes- 
cent, dark green. Flowers in lax or dense lateral spikes 1-5—5 cm. 
long; bracteoles small, rounded, ciliate; rhachis puberulous. Peri- 
anth-tube turbinate, about 2 mm. long; lobes 6, the 3 outer very 
small, rounded, ciliate; the 3inner oblong, concave, valvate. Stamens 
of the Ist row ovate, with broad filaments; those of the 2nd row with 
narrow filaments ; those of the 3rd row triangular, with sessile round- 
ed glands; staminodes of the 4th row triangular, acute, subsessile. 
Fruit a globose white drupe, 5—7 mm. in diameter with a hard peri- 
carp enclosed in the fleshy enlarged perianth-tube which is crowned 
by its segments. Nees Syst. Laur. 642; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. 1. 
255; Wight Ic. t. 1647; Wall. Cat. 2608, 7534; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 
314; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 223; Griff. Notul. IV. 353; Hook. 
Fl. Exot. t. 167; Benth. Fl. Austral. V. 311; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 
555; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V,188; Prain Beng. Plants 904; Cooke 
Bomb. Fl. If. 541. ‘ Acatsjavalli’ Rheede Hort. Mal. VII. t. 44. 
Matay PENINSULA : Gwynne-Vaughan 243!. Penance: Wallich: 
Curtis 1203!. Perak: King’s Collector 4956!. PaHane: at Rumpin 
river, fidley!. Matacca: Griffith4238!; Harvey!; at Sungei Udang, 
Goodenough 1384!. Srncarore, Ridley 3380!.—Distri. Through- 
out India, Ceylon, Arabia, Mascarene Islands, Malay Archipelago, 
Australia, Polynesia, Tropical Africa, America. 
